Sounds great, right? Yeah, maybe. By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST The U.S. Bureau of Land Management announced Wednesday, Jan. 17, that it proposes to open...
Nearing the point of no return on the Big Hole Benjamin Alva Polley EBS CONTRIBUTOR The Jefferson Basin, including the Big Hole River, the Beaverhead, and...
How snowpack affects summer forest fires By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Many friends are already scheming ways to escape this summer’s possible wrath of extreme...
The importance of regenerative ranching to save grassland ecosystems By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST An hour and a half east of Great Falls lies the...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST The Endangered Species Act was one of the first times we as a nation aspired to extend rights to other...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST The surrounding white-capped, gray-ribbed mountains swallowed the late summer sun like a piece of lemon drop candy. Darkness crept from...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST This past October, I was invited to go hunting with family and friends at the American Prairie Reserve. We stayed...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST In 1964, a landmark conservation bill called the Wilderness Act passed in Congress, protecting 112 million acres of pristine land...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Managing wolves or any animal is a dicey subject. Some people want wolves protected and kept on the Endangered Species...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST One late August evening years ago, I worked for the U.S. Forest Service and was stationed at Marias Pass between...