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Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Special Report

Serving Southwest Montana since 1911.

1988 Yellowstone Fires
Posted: February 4th, 2010

Save money, and maybe your home
Posted: July 20th, 2008
If you live in a fire-prone rural area, the government will pay you wages to reduce the risk of losing your home to a forest fire.

The aftermath and the lessons
Posted: July 20th, 2008
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. -- The fires of 1988 spawned an incredible amount of scientific investigation, with more than 250 research projects focused on fire.

Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Local

Serving Southwest Montana since 1911.

Snowmobile expo shows West Yellowstone can still bring in the four-strokes
Posted: March 13th, 2010
WEST YELLOWSTONE -- Standing atop a mound of slushy snow, Glen Gillies rattled into a PA system the names of the snowmobilers buzzing past him.

A place to call home
Posted: March 14th, 2010
Katie Gonsalves thought that moving home to Montana from pricey California would help her young family straighten out its finances.

Three Forks Interstate 90 overpass
Posted: March 14th, 2010

NewWest.net - Bozeman, MT

New West is a next-generation media company dedicated to the culture, economy, politics, environment and lifestyle of the Rocky Mountain West. Our core mission is to serve the Rockies with innovative, participatory journalism and to promote conversation that helps us understand and make the most of the dramatic changes sweeping our region.

Yellowstone Celebrates 15 Years of Trash...and Progress
Posted: March 15th, 2010
Educating more than one million people a year about being "good stewards" is part of the job at Yellowstone National Park - and it has been that way for the last 15 years. The anniversary of the park's "Greening of Yellowstone" effort is being observed at a event Tuesday, when the successes and challenges of the project will be discussed in Bozeman. Jim Evanoff is an environmental protection specialist with Yellowstone National Park. He has been with the park since almost the beginning of the campaign and points out that it has taken some time, but one of the park's biggest victories is all about trash. "Eighty percent of all the garbage we produce in the park is not going into a hole in the ground. It's either being recycled or composted or not generated to begin with." For comparison, the average city diverts only about 20 percent of its trash.

Mark Spragg's "Bone Fire" Returns to Familiar Ground
Posted: March 15th, 2010
Bone Fire by Mark Spragg Knopf, 304 pages, $25.95 Mark Spragg's understated yet satisfying third novel, Bone Fire, takes several characters from his first two novels and binds them together in a story in which some of the people are struggling to find a way to leave the town of Ishawooa, Wyoming, while others are trying to return to it.  In Bone Fire, Einar Gilkyson and Crane Carlson, two characters from Spragg's prior novels, have moved a bit farther down the inevitable conveyor belt that is life, declining in health while Griff, the young woman they both care about, flounders as she seeks direction. In 2004's An Unfinished Life, Griff Gilkyson was a nine-year-old girl, named after her dead father, who found refuge from her mother's flighty ways at her crusty paternal grandfather Einar's Wyoming ranch.  Griff's mother, Jean, ended up marrying the town sheriff, Crane Carlson.  Mark Spragg is currently on a book tour with Laura Bell, with stops in Boulder (Boulder Book Store, March 16, 7:30 p.m.), Bozeman (Country Bookshelf, April 20, 7 p.m.), Missoula (Fact & Fiction, April 21, 7 p.m.), and many more places in Montana, Utah, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and California.

Private Concessionaire: We Aren't Trying to Take Your Land
Posted: March 12th, 2010
Editor's Note: Two weeks ago I posted a hard-hitting column about recreation fees leading to privatization of our public lands and how the Forest Service facilitates the process by turning over management of so many campgrounds and other recreation areas to private concessionaires. After this commentary went online, I was contacted by Warren Meyer, who runs one of the major companies involved in private management of public recreation. He made some good points, and I asked him to write this guest commentary so you can see the other side of this issue.--Bill Schneider I know there has been a lot of concern about the role of private recreation businesses on public lands, and the relation this might have to the expansion of recreation fees. As the head of one of the larger Forest Service campground concession companies, I wanted to address some of these issues.

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