Thursday, March 28, 2024
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Hannah J. Ryan

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Jargon Therapy: A Cooperative Partnership

A cooperative partnership: this is what got thousands of acres of rangeland reseeded and native plants growing less than a year after wildfire raced across Gary Visintainer’s land.

Jargon Therapy: Ranchers as Conservation Heroes

Ranchers were once kings. When the Mannix family homesteaded Montana in the 1800s they ruled the Blackfoot Valley in west central Montana. Today, instead of...

Jargon Therapy: Landscape Conversations

A Montana landowner and a federal biologist are standing side by side, and surprisingly, there’s no gun slinging.  In fact, just the opposite is...

Jargon Therapy: Intent of Action

People can talk themselves silly about taking action against global warming. Is this type of “action” ever a waste of time? Action was a buzzword...

Jargon Therapy: Power Shift Players Give Their Two Cents

Sometimes succinct, poignant and creative messages draw the strongest results. These mini-novels were written by young people learning about climate change at this year's Rocky Mountain...

Jargon Therapy: Defining Science — The Quick and Dirty

The war over water is pending, say those who study fluvial processes. Sounds dirty to me. Actually, I was speaking to a Montana’s water specialist for...

Standing Rock: Native journalists torn between passion and neutrality

Story by Jason Begay, photos by Olivia Vanni See more of MJR's Standing Rock Coverage with this interactive web documentary. Even if it weren’t for that...

The Dude Provides

Story by Courtney Anderson  About 1,500 readers visit the Last Best News website daily. Thanks to a campaign to encourage Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges to...