The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in the United States plays a crucial role in assisting landowners and land managers in addressing various environmental and conservation challenges, including conifer encroachment on rangelands. Conifer encroachment refers to the gradual expansion of…
A few days ago, there was a Facebook post of someone asking why traffic was backed up on Highway 191, south of Bozeman. I expected the comments to be about an accident that was causing the delay, as is increasingly…
If you were a water droplet falling from the sky in an afternoon rainstorm, where would you go? You may fall through a canopy of Lodgepole Pines, to seep into the soil and eventually weave your way through the pores…
“On our land, it’s our river,” says Dan Jenkins, a land developer in the series Yellowstone. “This isn’t California, gentlemen. This is Montana. We can do whatever we want.” Not so fast, Danno. Though Hollywood insists on portraying Montana as…
As pioneers migrated west, settlers began to miss the trees that once coated the lands of the east. One man in particular, Nebraska newspaper editor and resident of Nebraska City NE - Julius Sterling Morton missed his community of trees.…
In February 2023, several staff members from Conservation Districts across Montana had the opportunity to attend the National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) Annual Meeting. This five-day event took place in New Orleans and provided attendees various tours, breakout sessions,…
Have you heard?! April is Earth Month! Earth Day falls on April 22 every year, but Earth Month is a month-long celebration of the planet and how we can make it a better place. It's a time to raise awareness…
Approaching our agricultural system on a smaller scale: local farms on land we know, producing goods for those within our communities, makes us put more thought and care into what we are growing and where it is going. Regenerative farming…
Look at how thin the deer are this winter! There are a few coming toward the house… some apples won’t hurt them, right? Wrong! While it may seem like you are doing the slender deer or scrawny squirrel in your…
Most of us have heard the buzz words – slow food, watershed, farm to table, reuse, re-purpose, and recycle, right? Have you realized similar words can relate to the clothes we wear? Slow fashion- this has to do with the…