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This week, our newsroom bids farewell to a treasured longtime reporter, Michael Jamison, who for 15 years has covered Glacier National Park, Flathead and Lincoln counties, and everything in-between for the Missoulian. Michael has accepted a position with the National Parks Conservation Association, a nonprofit whose mission it is to protect and enhance America’s national parks. He [...] Advertisement
Here in the newsroom, we’re busy collecting information from the dozens of western Montana legislative candidates whose names will be on November’s general election ballot. Starting in September, we’ll publish their responses to Q&As – one district at a time for several weeks. It’s a lengthy and occasionally frustrating process, finding all the candidates and securing their [...] You just never know what you’re going to come across on assignment for the Missoulian. On Wednesday afternoon, reporter Michael Jamison and photography editor Kurt Wilson were in Glacier National Park, on assignment for an upcoming Territory cover story. Which is how they found themselves driving through a campground. Which is where they spied “The Smoking Gun,” [...] The Columbia Falls newspaper took note with Joe Cosley first came to town in March 1910. Years ago, while writing a story on the annual hike hosted by the superintendents of Glacier and Waterton national parks, I camped overnight at Elizabeth Lake. It was, truly, the most beautiful backcountry lake I have ever visited, surrounded by [...]
Photograph by KURT WILSON/Missoulian I sure am enjoying the monthly Sunday Territory features by Michael Jamison and Kurt Wilson, celebrating Glacier National Park on its centennial year. This Sunday’s installment is one of the loveliest. It is a tribute to the artists who have helped share – and in the process, protect – Glacier’s great beauty over [...] This mama wolverine, known to researchers as F4, is hunting ground squirrels along Glacier National Park’s Highline Trail. She’ll take them back to her two kits, waiting at a rendezvous site some four miles away. Photograph by BILL GARWOOD And the Missoulian just keeps getting wilder! Coming Thursday to the Outdoors section of the Missoulian, we’ll [...] Granite Park Chalet. Photograph by KURT WILSON/Missoulian The first time I read Jack Olsen’s “Night of the Grizzlies,” I was spending the night at Granite Park Chalet. By the time, long after dark, that I finished reading the story – sitting at a table in the big dining room – I was almost too scared to [...] George Bird Grinnell was captivated by the Glacier area and did more than any other single person to promote its designation as a national park. Photo courtesy of Glacier National Park Archives Glacier National Park officially celebrates its 100th birthday on Tuesday, and we’re planning lots of special coverage starting in this Sunday’s Missoulian. Coming to [...] A mountain goat inspects tourists on the trail to Granite Park Chalet last summer. KURT WILSON/Missoulian We’re all storytellers. That’s why we like reading stories so much. In today’s Missoulian, we carried two stories with special requests for our readers to go online and share their own tales. The first, reporter Michael Moore’s story of Missoula cancer doc [...] |
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Missoulian readers tweet: How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Gia and Conor Devlin, July 24, 2010
Remember those first-day-of-school assignments? “OK class, I want you to write a paper on ‘How I Spent My Summer Vacation.’ ”
I would go on and on about swimming in the river and climbing trees with the Martin twins and exploring “the woods” with my cousins, and hanging out [...]