Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Weeksville Divide, tagged Cabinet Mountains, Weeksville Divide on November 26, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Sometimes I wonder if Nature wants to forget…
Looking out over the Clark Fork Valley from Weeksville Divide in western Montana’s Cabinet Mountains..
Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Weeksville Divide, tagged Weeksville Divide on November 24, 2007 | 13 Comments »
There were just a few minutes of sun today on top of the divide. It was a long hike, but I was glad to be there!
On the top of Weeksville Divide on November 24th in western Montana’s Cabinet Mountains.
Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Cabinet Mountains, Thompson River, western Montana on November 23, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Usually by this time of year this area is inaccessible, so I was happy to get a winter photo of it.
Thompson River in the Cabinet Mountains of western Montana.
Posted in Cabinet Mountains, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Bighole Peak, Cabinet Mountains on November 22, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Thanksgiving day, 2007 on the east slope of Bighole Peak in Montana’s Cabinet Mountains.
Posted in Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on November 21, 2007 | 12 Comments »
This afternoon it seemed appropriate to spend a few hours following in the footprints of a solitary coyote, for no special reason other than to see what he was up to and to enjoy some of the scenes that he sees every day. I was not surprised when his meandering trail led me to a [...]
Posted in Conservation, Environment, Idaho, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Wyoming, tagged snowmobiles, Yellowstone Park on November 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The issue was whether to permit 540 snowmobiles per day into Yellowstone or limit winter access to guided snow coaches.
PARK SERVICE TO ALLOW 504 SNOWMOBILES PER DAY IN YELLOWSTONE
“Snowmobile opponents wanted to see the machines eliminated from the park, saying they cause air and noise pollution, while snowmobile supporters want more, arguing many local businesses [...]
Posted in Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures on November 20, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I hope the family of Mountain Bluebirds who made this home for the summer has a great season in their winter abode and will return again in April.
Posted in Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Trees on November 19, 2007 | 10 Comments »
During the night, Mother Nature did some decorating. She did it with white.
Posted in Conservation, Environment, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Wilderness Bill H.R. 1975, tagged Custer National Forest, Pryor Mountains on November 17, 2007 | 6 Comments »
“it’s important I have written proof that Montanans don’t want members from New York and Connecticut dictating our land-use policy” (this is taken from a press release by Denny Rehberg, Montana’s sole member of the House of representatives, concerning his opposition to the Wilderness Bill, H.R. 1975. In the opening sentence of that release, he [...]
Posted in Conservation, Environment, Idaho, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Wilderness Bill H.R. 1975, Wyoming, tagged Environment, Grand Tetons National Park, Wilderness Bill H.R. 1975, Yellowstone National Park on November 15, 2007 | 20 Comments »
As reported in this story, when 86 lawmakers across the U.S. asked the Park Service to limit motorized winter travel in Yellowstone and Grand Tetons National Parks to trips aboard guided snowcoaches as a means of protecting the Parks, guess who the 10 politicians were who got together to oppose that plan, saying “the [...]
