Outdoors

Pine Creek Falls

Published on Tue, 07/30/2019 - 3:39pm
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I’ve lived in Montana for almost a month, and I’ve been trying to make it feel more like home. I accepted my job in Livingston and moved here sight unseen. 

Since moving, it seems like everyone I’ve talked to has given me their own list of the top places to visit in the area. I decided it was finally time to embrace Montana and explore some of the famed wilderness I’ve heard so much about since I moved. 

Benevolent or fearsome? Yellowjackets can be both

Published on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 12:00am
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Yellowjackets play a supportive role in gardening but can be dangerous around families and pets. People sensitive to bee venom should be especially careful from August through October, when yellowjacket

FWP reminds boaters to take extra precautions

Published on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 12:00am

Two recreationists were caught in a hazardous spot on the Gallatin River in separate incidents last week where a cottonwood tree recently fell into the river. Both boaters were uninjured,

University of Montana announces backcountry trip planning website redesign

Published on Tue, 07/23/2019 - 12:00am

The University of Montana’s Wilderness Institute has invited the public to plan backcountry trips online using Wilderness Connect. The recently redesigned website guides recreationists planning hiking, backpacking, boating and wildlifewatching

The quintessential hike

Published on Tue, 07/16/2019 - 12:00am
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It’s the quintessential summer hike every Park County resident — if they really want to call themselves one — has to make: the trek to Pine Creek Lake. If you’ve

When is fruit ready to pick? Nature offers different clues

Published on Tue, 07/09/2019 - 12:00am
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It takes just a twist of the wrist to determine when pears are ready to come off the tree. For plums and peaches, flesh firmness is a good way to

Tracking Sioux Falls geese is ‘organized chaos’

Published on Tue, 07/09/2019 - 12:00am
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Researchers with the South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department are no strangers to managing the chaos of honking, kicking and flapping when catching a

North Carolina conservationists work to recover native brook trout population

Published on Tue, 07/09/2019 - 12:00am

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — If brook trout could speak, they might have gurgled something like “back off!” to the men stalking them with Ghostbuster-like backpack electrofishers, nets and scissors. But

Homecoming, new adventures on Smith River

Published on Tue, 06/25/2019 - 12:00am
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Last week I spent five days and four nights floating the Smith River with family. It felt like a homecoming the way a trip down the Smith often does, and

One-legged athlete wows on skateboard, slopes

Published on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 12:00am
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BOZEMAN (AP) — In May, skateboarding legend Tony Hawk shared a video of a man with one leg flipping a skateboard with his crutches while clearing a gap across the