Feature Stories
Partnered Up
Big Sky Journal Fall 2022
A watershed-level approach to ranching in bear country.
Women Making Big Leaps
Edible Bozeman Spring 2022
Paving the way for a sustainable ranching future.
Photo by Meg Juenker
Big Cats, Big Territories
Montana Outdoors November-December 2021
How new DNA technology, spatial science, and computer modeling are helping FWP adjust mountain lion numbers to where Montanans want them.
Partnering Up
Conservation Frontlines
How a collaboration between government agencies, conservation groups and landowners in Montana is showing that wildlife conservation and human prosperity can coexist.
Ranching in Paradise
Grizzly Bear Collective
Playing on the use of “Smart” in the context of advanced technology, a partnership in Montana’s Paradise Valley has launched the Smart Ranching initiative, working to reduce conflict with wildlife with the use of cutting-edge technologies.
Montana Range Riding Aids Ranchers, Mitigates Conflicts
USDA
After spending four months riding the range, Jessianne Castle reflects on how range riding serves as another tool for wildlife managers and livestock producers.
More People, More Bears
Grizzly Bear Collective
Like all habits, bear awareness begins as a conscious act before it becomes habit. With surges in recreational use following the outbreak of COVID-19, there’s value for visitors and locals alike in reflecting upon our own human behavior and how it affects wildlife.
A Guiding Light
Montana Outdoors, November-December 2020
Recent recommendations from the Governor’s Grizzly Bear Advisory Council are helping wildlife managers better understand exactly how Montanans want bears and people to coexist.
Building Solutions
Grizzly Bear Collective
Montana sportsman Randy Newberg’s approach to elk hunting in grizzly habitat and how recommendations from a citizen panel are shaping the future for bears.
It Takes a Village
Grizzly Bear Collective
How Montana’s Swan Valley is turning the tide on problem bears.
The Footprint of Change
Grizzly Bear Collective
How one Montana family living on the fringe of Yellowstone National Park is adapting to grizzly bears.
A Vision
Mountain Outlaw, Winter 2020
The lasting bond between the Crow Tribe and the Crazy Mountains.
Of Ghosts And Shadows
Montana Quarterly, Winter 2019
Inside the effort to conserve Montana’s mountain lions.
Pilgrimage On The Yellowstone
Explore Big Sky Newspaper, Sept. 23, 2019
After a week immersed in the Greater Yellowstone, Jessianne explores what it means to be a writer in this place.
Dart Toss: The People of Marysville
Mountain Outlaw magazine, Summer 2019
The soul of Montana is made up of the lives of everyday people. In Marysville we’re reminded how people can transform a place.
Stewarding An Icon
Explore Yellowstone Magazine, 2019
Today, the tale of the bison is steeped in a mire of public opinion and the future of our relationship with these storied creatures remains unclear.
Living Relics
Cowgirl Magazine, May/June 2019
A unique herd of wild horses, with ancient colonial Spanish lineage, roams the Pryor Mountains of Montana and Wyoming.
One Hundred Years A Monument: Bozeman’s Cannery District
Montana Historian, 2017
In 1917, several men shook hands on a prospect. Responding to what was becoming a thriving pea industry in Gallatin Valley, some of Bozeman’s most notable businessmen started the Bozeman Canning Company. One hundred years later, the cannery’s buildings still stand as sentinels reminding us of a bygone age.
Kinderschema
Mountain Outlaw Magazine, Winter 2017
Puppies, kittens, babies and bears. The science behind cuteness.