Mark Olson has a new record out called “Salvation Blues”. Mark is the founder of “the Jayhawks”, the pioneering alt.country band.
Here he is doing a live version of the title track off the new album:

Another scene from the Gallatin National Forest.

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The Rocky Mountain Front is a huge wild area that stretches from Glacier to Wolf Creek. I spent some time in this area where the bear was captured last summer. It was a windy, very remote area with a great ambience of wildness. I hope to spend more time there this summer. This bear was quite a bit out into the prarie, which is remarkable and shows how wild this place still is. huge chunks of the Front remain unprotected. You can view a map of the area at this PDF link.

Great photos at the link.

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The grizzly, sporting 3 1/2-inch claws shaped like half moons, turned out to be the second largest bear ever recorded in the Northern Rockies Region.

But the bear’s father might be even bigger

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MISSOULA (AP) — Management plans for 18 national forests in Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming are being changed to conserve the threatened Canada lynx and its habitat, U.S. Forest Service officials said Friday.

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Saying he wants to ride around in a motorboat during his declining years, timber heir Steven Stewart is attempting to scuttle a federal ban on gas-fired boat engines on pristine Waldo Lake.

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Resource managers hope to triple the annual acreage they treat for invasive plants like spotted knapweed and Dalmatian toadflax. They also want to add sheep and goats to the toolbox of control measures. The plans are detailed in a draft environmental impact statement.

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LAS CRUCES — Dustin Gardner, a 26-year-old Las Crucen who runs a small landscaping company, thinks this could be the year to introduce his 4-year-old son, Cody, to the joys of camping