A new University of Montana study reveals fire suppression will continue creating mega-fires By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST On March 25, the University of Montana...
A look at Rep. Zinke and his Public Lands in Public Hands Act By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST It’s primary season in Montana, the time...
The state of Montana plans on suing the federal government over a recent ESA listing By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Glimpsing the ghost is almost...
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...
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...