NAME Roger Muggli Age 59 Vocation Farmer/Feed Plant Operator Elected Position Secretary of the Tongue and Yellowstone Irrigation District (third generation) Handle Water Dog (H2OK9) Home Base Family farm east of Miles City, Montana Life Passion Water He Says “Wouldn’t it be grand if our kids and grandkids could float down the Yellowstone and still […]
Alan S. Kesselheim
Posted inFebruary 4, 2008: Unnatural Preservation
Standing outside, late, in a charcoal forest
When my bladder provokes me out of the cabin, the Montana night is deep. The door closes behind me. I step down two stairs to the frozen, scoured ground. It is warm and breezy. The wind sounds like river current moving among the black stalks of tree trunks. An acrid hint of fire is in […]
Posted inOctober 9, 2000: The hunters and the hunted
Wilder Grand Canyon proves too contentious
Lawsuit replaces talk about the fate of 94 percent of the park
Posted inMarch 27, 2000: The last wild river
The last wild river
The Yellowstone River survived the era of dams, but can it survive riprap?
Posted inMarch 15, 1999: Selling off the Promised Land
State senate says voters weren’t very smart
Were Montana voters confused last year when they passed an initiative halting any expanded or new cyanide leach gold mines? Yes, say some state legislators, and not only confused, but wrong. “Just because the people said that is what they wanted, that does not make it right,” said State Sen. Lorents Grosfield of Big Timber. […]
Posted inDecember 21, 1998: Grand Canyon Gridlock
Grand Canyon Gridlock
Note: four sidebar articles accompany this feature story: an excerpt from the journals of Buzz Holmstrom describes the first solo river trip through the Grand Canyon in 1937, a timeline of significant events within the Grand Canyon, a book review of “The Doing of the Thing: The Brief Brilliant Whitewater Career of Buzz Holmstrom,” and […]