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Summary: In this episode of Regenerative by Design, host Joni Kindwall-Moore welcomes Anna Jones-Crabtree, Jessica Roberts, and Colleen Kavanagh to discuss the transformative potential of regenerative organic farming in Montana's Northern Great Plains. The conversation dives into the challenges and opportunities of building sustainable food systems prioritizing environmental stewardship, economic resilience, and community health.Show Notes:Guests: Anna Jones-Crabtree, Jessica Roberts, Colleen KavanaghAnna Jones-CrabtreeAnna Jones-Crabtree is a first-generation organic farmer and co-owner of Vilicus Farms, a 12,500-acre dryland crop farm in Northern Montana. She and her husband, Doug, have cultivated a diverse array of heirloom grains, pulses, oilseeds, and broadleaf crops using innovative five and seven-year rotations, integrated grazing, and extensive conservation practices. Vilicus Farms, which devotes over 26% of its land to non-crop conservation and pollinator habitats, is Bee Better and Real Organic Project Certified, with plans for Regenerative Organic and Biodynamic certifications.Anna is also the Executive Director of the Vilicus Institute, a learning hub supporting sustainable farming systems in the Northern Great Plains. With a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a focus on sustainable systems, Anna has served in leadership roles for the Xerces Society, USDA Advisory Council, and Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT. In addition to her farming and advocacy work, Anna is the Regional Director of Data, Information, and Geospatial Resources for the US Forest Service.Link:https://www.vilicusinstitute.org/Jessica RobertsWith over 20 years of hands-on farming experience, Jessica Roberts has dedicated her career to cultivating crops, developing value-added products, and driving systemic change in the food industry. She honed her expertise through roles at Wegmans grocery stores and their Organic Farm & Orchard, where she focused on research and development to strengthen regional food systems. As Associate Director of Certification for the Real Organic Project, Jessica led programs supporting over 1,100 farmer members, conducting more than 200 farm inspections to advance organic farming practices. Guided by principles of reciprocity and a belief in humanity's role as co-creators of resilient ecosystems, Jessica strives to build a food system that honors and rewards farmers for their essential contributions to their communities and the environment.Link:https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-roberts-803034191/Topics Covered:The role of Villicus Farms and Villicus Institute in fostering regenerative organic practices.Barriers and innovations in crop diversity, soil health, and ecosystem services.Economic challenges of first-generation farming and market access for diverse crops.The need for a collaborative "supply circle" model to de-risk regenerative practices.The impact of local sourcing and shorter supply chains on community resilience and carbon emissions.Key Takeaways:Regenerative organic farming systems require fundamental shifts in market and policy support.Farmers often bear the greatest risk in a supply chain that needs collective risk-sharing strategies.Collaborative initiatives, like those from Villicus Institute, aim to transform how farmers are supported economically.Shortening supply chains and prioritizing US-grown products can significantly reduce CO2 emissions and strengthen local economies.Call to Action: Explore the work of Villicus Farms and the Villicus Institute through the links provided in the show notes. Share this episode to spread awareness of the importance of regenerative farming. Rate the podcast and connect with the team for more updates on their groundbreaking projects.Closing Thought: "Redesigning our food systems isn't just about farming differently; it's about showing up for one another in ways that build a more resilient and equitable future."The Regenerative by Design is hosted by Snacktivist. Snacktivist creates baking mixes and finished products that are allergy-friendly, soil, water, and carbon-focused, all while radically impacting human nutrition by transforming staple foods into something more than just empty calories. Visitsnacktivistfoods.com to learn more.Funding for the Regenerative By Design Podcast was made possible by a grant/cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the USDA.

Bison bison! Not just something to holler into the sky, but also the scientific name for North America's majestic wild bovines that once roamed the plains in the tens of millions. What's up with their humps? On what occasion do they wear capes? What noises do they make? How many are out there? Why do birds love them? In this special episode, you get 4x the usual number of ologists as we talk to archeologist Dr. Ken Cannon, wildlife biologist Dr. Dan McNulty, Alie's cousin Boyd and his wife Lila Evans, of the Blackfeet Tribe, who are bison ranchers based in Northern Montana. Also, once and for all: is it buffalo or bison? And can Alie hug one?A donation went to: InterTribal Bison Council (ITBC)Full-length (*not* G-rated) Bisonology episode + tons of science linksMore kid-friendly Smologies episodes!Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a monthOlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, masks, totes!Follow @Ologies on Bluesky and InstagramFollow @AlieWard on X and InstagramSound editing by Mercedes Maitland of Maitland Audio Productions, Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray MorrisMade possible by work from Noel Dilworth, Susan Hale, Jacob Chaffee, Kelly R. Dwyer, Emily White, & Erin TalbertSmologies theme song by Harold Malcolm

Meghan Brady shares her recent trip to Montana, focusing on the breathtaking landscapes of Glacier National Park. We will be featuring the Equestrian Travel Association's newest Gold Member, Bar W Guest Ranch, a premier destination that embodies the spirit of the West with its exceptional horseback riding experiences and warm hospitality. The conversation covers various activities including whitewater rafting, hiking, and wildlife encounters, as well as travel tips for visiting Northern Montana. The episode concludes with a delicious recipe for cowboy chicken chili, making it a comprehensive guide for equestrian travel enthusiasts. Listen in...HORSES IN THE MORNING Episode 3528 - Show Notes & Links:Hosts: Meghan Brady of the Equestrian Travel AssociationPresenting Sponsor: Equestrian Travel Association | Facebook | InstagramGuest: Jami Phillips of Bar W Guest Ranch | Facebook | InstagramRecipe:Cowboy Chicken Chili (In Dutch Oven over coals)Ingredients: OilChicken Stock or Soup BaseGreen pepperred onioncelerygarliccilantro,white beansgreen chili/rotelCheese sauce mixture: queso cheese and cream cheese (diced up so it can melt faster). You can prepare the cheese sauce mixture over the stove in a saucepan.We use roasted or smoked chicken quarters. Debone the chicken. Season the chicken with salt, pepper, and any other spices of your preference.Cooked Rice (optional if you want a thicker chili)Instructions: Add to the Dutch Oven that is warmed up with coals underneath the following:A little bit of oil, minced garlic, chopped bell peppers, diced red onions, diced celery, and whitebeans (season the veggies: salt, pepper, garlic powder, paprika).Add in chicken stock/broth, cheese sauce, the seasoned chicken, cilantro, and lime juice.Put lid on and add coals. Let simmer and slow cook. Stir occasionally.

Meghan Brady shares her recent trip to Montana, focusing on the breathtaking landscapes of Glacier National Park. We will be featuring the Equestrian Travel Association's newest Gold Member, Bar W Guest Ranch, a premier destination that embodies the spirit of the West with its exceptional horseback riding experiences and warm hospitality. The conversation covers various activities including whitewater rafting, hiking, and wildlife encounters, as well as travel tips for visiting Northern Montana. The episode concludes with a delicious recipe for cowboy chicken chili, making it a comprehensive guide for equestrian travel enthusiasts. Listen in...HORSES IN THE MORNING Episode 3528 - Show Notes & Links:Hosts: Meghan Brady of the Equestrian Travel AssociationPresenting Sponsor: Equestrian Travel Association | Facebook | InstagramGuest: Jami Phillips of Bar W Guest Ranch | Facebook | InstagramRecipe:Cowboy Chicken Chili (In Dutch Oven over coals)Ingredients: OilChicken Stock or Soup BaseGreen pepperred onioncelerygarliccilantro,white beansgreen chili/rotelCheese sauce mixture: queso cheese and cream cheese (diced up so it can melt faster). You can prepare the cheese sauce mixture over the stove in a saucepan.We use roasted or smoked chicken quarters. Debone the chicken. Season the chicken with salt, pepper, and any other spices of your preference.Cooked Rice (optional if you want a thicker chili)Instructions: Add to the Dutch Oven that is warmed up with coals underneath the following:A little bit of oil, minced garlic, chopped bell peppers, diced red onions, diced celery, and whitebeans (season the veggies: salt, pepper, garlic powder, paprika).Add in chicken stock/broth, cheese sauce, the seasoned chicken, cilantro, and lime juice.Put lid on and add coals. Let simmer and slow cook. Stir occasionally.

Fifty million dollars is going to improve agricultural roads. Mike Koles with the Wisconsin Towns Association says in one application, the Agricultural Road Improvement Program would save the area farms 17 miles of travel per trip.  Northern Montana might see snow this week. Pam Jahnke's Farm Tour in Alaska is seeing 60s and rain. But here in Wisconsin and in other areas of the country, a heat advisory warns residents to stay indoors. Wade Peterson of Baraboo has helped 26 families across the country through Farm Rescue. And he says it's rewarding work. He takes two weeks of vacation every year to volunteer. Grace Larsen gives advice on how to keep calves cool in a heat wave. Today, the Wisconsin Ag Coalition is hosting state office candidates on farm tours. Don't forget to secure your Packer Watch Party tickets for Sep. 6 to support FFA and have a good time in Titletown! Market advisor John Heinberg with Total Farm Marketing in West Bend says grain prices are in a slump due to 1) the time of year 2) big crop projections and 3) no growth in demand.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HeLIX Exploration PLC CEO Bo Sears joined Proactive's Stephen Gunnion from the Ingomar Dome project in Montana, where drilling has just commenced. Sears highlighted the current progress, including the successful setting of surface casing and the ongoing drilling towards a total depth of 8,000 feet. The conversation also covers the significance of Ingomar Dome, which is part of a two-well drilling program for the quarter, and the potential it holds, especially in terms of helium exploration. Sears explains, "These processing facilities are very bespoke creatures. We need to know the precise composition of the gas in order to design, to plan around it." The discussion also touches on future plans at the Rudyard project, where the company will continue its efforts in Northern Montana. Stay tuned to learn more about the potential outcomes of these drilling programs and what they mean for HeLIX Exploration's future. Don't forget to give this video a like, subscribe to our channel, and enable notifications for more updates from Proactive. #HeLIXExploration #MontanaDrilling #HeliumExploration #IngomarDome #EnergySector #BoSears #NaturalResources #ProactiveInvestors #invest #investing #investment #investor #stockmarket #stocks #stock #stockmarketnews

Get ready for an exhilarating adventure on the wild and scenic Flathead River in Northern Montana with expert fly angler and industry icon, Hilary Hutcheson!  Originating in some of the most breathtaking and remote scenery in the west, the Flathead offers high-adrenaline whitewater fly fishing and crystal-clear waters teeming with native westslope cutthroat trout who love to look up. Hilary, who started guiding as a teenager, has a fascinating journey from television news anchor in Portland to guiding on the Flathead and Middle Fork of the Salmon River. Owner of Lary's Fly & Supply in Columbia Falls, Montana, she's a key industry player, serving on multiple boards, testifying on Capitol Hill, and winning awards as a filmmaker, journalist, and contributing editor for Fly Fisherman Magazine. Brace yourself for stories of Bonecrusher rapids, grizzly bears, and a client with a superhuman bladder, plus Hilary's guide training philosophy and Capitol Hill testimony. Stick around to the end for a sneak peek at her new movie. Grab your helmet—this ride is going to be wild! With host, Steve Haigh Be the first to know about new episodes.  Become a subscriber Destination Angler on YouTube Pictures from the Flathead @DestinationAnglerPodcast on Facebook and Instagram Contact Hilary: Glacier Anglers Lary's Fly & Supply Instagram @outsidehilary  or @Larysfly Facebook @larysfly Please check out our Sponsors: Got Fishing Crafting world-class fly-fishing adventures specially designed to your level of experience and budget.   Facebook @GotFishingAdventures Instagram @GotFishing TroutRoutes The number one fishing app, helping trout anglers avoid the crowds and explore new public water. Download it and receive 20% off using Destination20 promo code in the app store today! Facebook @troutinsights Instagram @TroutRoutes    Adamsbuilt Fishing THE trusted source for quality fly fishing gear, built to last at an affordable price. Waders, Nets, Outerwear. Facebook & Instagram @Adamsbuilt Angler's Coffee Elevating the coffee experience for the fly-fishing community & anglers everywhere with small-batch coffee delivered to your doorstep.  Facebook & Instagram @anglerscoffeeco    Destination Angler Podcast:  Website ·       YouTube Instagram & Facebook  @DestinationAnglerPodcast Comments & Suggestions:  host, Steve Haigh, email shaigh@DestinationAnglerPodcast.com Available on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Recorded March 29, 2024.  Episode 120

State environmental officials are investigating after a BNSF locomotive leaked diesel fuel along a more than 60-mile stretch of track across northern Montana.

According to the latest U.S Drought Monitor map, Montana's entire southern tier, as well a respectable slice of the state's mid-section, is drought free. Conditions across northern Montana aren't as encouraging.

Live from the Heart of America—I'm Steve Gruber— Your Soldier of Truth—the Tip of the Spear against socialists—here ready to fight for you from the Foxhole of Freedom—AND—REMEMBER TO THINK while its still legal—this is the Steve Gruber Show—   Here are 3 big things you need to know right now—   Number One— I thought it never rained in Southern California—BUT I guess it does sometimes—and the state is getting several inches of rain—so of course—Climate Change—   Number Two— Get ready to panic—because the fear mongers are really ginning up the whole Covid resurgence and pointing to some new strain identified in Michigan— how about some lockdowns for fall?   Number Three— Who is Oliver Anthony? Is he for real—or is he a plant like some people claim?   I ask because the guy was nobody when I left on vacation 10 days ago—and now he is a worldwide phenom for calling out the elites in Washington—and really hitting an American Nerve—about politicians not giving a damn about you or me—   Oliver Anthony by his own admission was playing to crowds of 20 people earlier this month—and now his song Rich Men North of Richland has soared to number one—and is showing no sign of slowing down— and at last peek it had 30 million views on Youtube—   The song is the most recent to really rattle the cage of ordinary Americans—that are fed up with open borders, child sex trafficking and of course the disaster that is the economy—the thing the left cheerfully calls Bidenomics—   This time the song however comes from the gut of America—just a couple weeks ago Anthony was living in a trailer with his 3 dogs—off the grid—and then he posted the song to YouTube and it went ultra-viral—so much in fact he was offered an 8 million dollar contract—that he rejected almost out of hand— So I guess he is still in the trailer near Farmville Virginia—BUT I am guessing he might have some added security—   He appears to be the genuine article—not something conjured up by A-I in the backroom of a recording studio in Nashville or anywhere else—this guy appears to be the real thing—and that is something we all crave in this artificial world full of artificial things—   He overcame the social media handlers—and the powerful behind the curtain—I mean if he had signed a recording contract with ANY label—we would never have heard this song—   When I say Anthony struck a nerve—that is a massive understatement—I have seen praise for his populist anthem coming from all sides of the political spectrum and for good reason—America—and Americans are starving for something real—for something or someone to believe in—and millions need a hero right now—and maybe this young man—whom I believe is just 31 is what people have been looking for—craving actually—a real life hero—   Here's why—nothing is real anymore—we don't trust anything anymore—certainly not politicians—you know the Rich Men North of Richmond—which of course is Washington DC—and when I say nothing is real—I mean it—and its getting harder and harder to tell something real—from a fake—   Let me put it this way—   I spent most of the past 10 days with my family in Glacier National Park—which is in Northern Montana along the Canadian border—   It is about as real as it gets—we walked one trail for several miles called the Highline—and it has sheer drop-offs-- some of them hundreds if not thousands of feet to the bottom—so intense in some places that guidewires are drilled into the side of the granite cliffs for people to cling too while they recite the Lord's prayer under their breath—and yes a couple of times that included me—and damn, did it feel good!   We drove over Logan Pass at the top of Going to the Sun Road—a road completed in 1932—at the vicious front end of the Great Depression—a road completed with thousands of pounds of dynamite—and men, real men willing to put their lives on the line DAY AFTER DAY to complete a road many thought could never be built—   They worked in harsh conditions for over ten years to get it done—dodging rockslides, snow slides and brutal weather over and over again—because they knew failure was not an option—they were steadfast and they persevered because they were Americans—and Americans do great things—at least we used to—     Today it seems to many people are rewarded for failing and we keep lowering the standards so nobody gets their feelings hurt—and worse, we give favors to the criminals over the victims—and the elite sit in their ivory towers chortling over the challenges the rest of us face every single day—   They demand we give up everything while they take it all—get rid of your appliances and buy a new EV—while most can barely pay the rent or the mortgage—and the price of groceries has people literally eating less—while the elite feast at the expense of many—   That's why when you walk down a trail cut 150 years ago through the wilderness you can get a sense of what is missing today—and that is something tangible and real—like granite and gravity—   Social media is no replacement for real wilderness and genuine experiences—video games don't put you at 9,000 feet with no way out except the way you came in—   And you know what else is great about so many of our national parks? They don't have cell service—so the families actually get the chance to talk to each other—to laugh—to cry—to bond—you know to hold onto something real—each other—what a concept—   Which brings me back to the 8 million dollar offer—a week or two after playing for 20 people, Anthony claims the offers came rolling in—some folks are claiming he is a plant—and that his success was part of an organized effort—seems strange to me—considering he has apparently worked third shift in a factory and battled with drug and alcohol issues—at least that is what I have gleaned about the man—and the bright red beard—really doesn't look contrived to me—   And then he said this—   So, you see a guy with deeply held beliefs can make a difference—and that's why I tell you to keep the faith everyday—because there are many among us who want us to fail—and they want to see America fail—   They have their list of grievances every day—BUT most of us just want a chance—to work for something—to build a life and provide for a family and make the place a little bit better than when we got here—   What we don't want is people telling us they know better—that they can make all the decisions for us—and we need to do what we are told—and that is the nerve hit by Oliver Anthony—   Working class people want a chance to live their lives—and maybe strike it rich along the way—BUT mostly just to be left alone—   I warn any politician that is not paying attention to what is being sung these days—they are putting themselves at risk of an overwhelming populist revolution—tossing them to the curb and protecting our Republic and Democracy from those that would like to see Western Civilization destroyed—   Here is one more listen to what hitting a nerve really sounds like—   And if you still have some questions about what is going on right now in America—this might help answer some questions—

On this Episode of the The Montana Outdoor Podcast you will learn about ice fishing on two of Montana's best Walleye fishing reservoirs, Nelson Reservoir and Fresno Reservoir. These two Reservoirs are located in Northern Montana on what most Montanans call the Hi-Line. They call it Montana's Hi-Line since it's the northernmost route traversing the state from east to west. Your hosts Downrigger Dale and The Captain will talk to Brian Olson, one of the most knowledgeable Walleye fishermen in all of Montana. In fact Brian has won one of the most prestigious Walleye fishing tournaments in the world, The Montana Governor's Cup! Brian will give you information on where the best ice fishing spots are on these reservoirs as well as what bait to use and many other valuable Walleye fishing techniques. Plus he will talk about how to fish Nelson and Fresno Reservoir when the ice thaws off the water in early spring. We would love to hear what you think of this podcast as well as any suggestions you may have for topics for future podcasts. Just send an email to Downrigger@MontanaOutdoor.com.  You can also use that email address to ask this week's guest, Brian Olson any questions you may have. Downrigger will be happy to get your questions answered by Brian. Remember to tune in to our live radio show, The Montana Outdoor Radio Show, every Saturday morning from 6:00AM to 8:00AM. The show airs on 30 radio stations all across the State of Montana. You can get a list of our affiliated radio stations on our website. You can also listen to recordings of past shows, get fishing and and hunting information and much more at that website or on our Facebook page. You can also watch our radio show there as well.

Havre Cowboy recently inducted into the Montana Cowboy Hall of Fame, Dick Granell tells a hilarious story of a rodeo with an unexpected twist.

Get the Heart of Freedom III Replay here: https://hof3replay.thefuturegen.com/hof3recording Join the Future Generations Community here: https://community.thefuturegen.com   Remember to Rate, Review and Subscribe on iTunes and Follow us on Spotify Follow us on Instagram: @futuregenpodcast   San Diego area residents, take advantage of our special New Patient offer exclusively for podcast listeners here. We can't wait to experience miracles with you!   As you will hear in this episode, we are teaming up with Perennial Pastures for a giveaway! The winner will receive access to the replay of our Heart of Freedom III event AND $160 worth of Perennial Pastures Ancestral ground beef blend. You can enter to win here. Good luck!   Show your eyes some love with a pair of daylight or sunset (or both!) blue-light blocking glasses from Ra Optics. They have graciously offered Future Generations podcast listeners 10% off any purchase. Use code FGPOD or click here to access this discount, and let us know how your glasses are treating you!   Are you a fan of cold plunges? Did you know you can get your hands on a PORTABLE ice bath? Check out the Edge Theory Labs website to learn more about the benefits of cold plunges. Future Generations podcast listeners can enjoy $150 off any tub by using code THEFUTUREGEN. Happy plunging!   This episode, especially if you are in the San Diego area, is not to be missed! Dr. Stan interviews Kevin Muno, a regenerative beef rancher who oversees 16,000 acres and 420 cows in San Diego county. In this episode, Kevin speaks about how he became a rancher and how regenerative farming practices – and the consumption of regeneratively farmed beef – are so healing for both humans and the planet. Enjoy!   Kevin is the owner/operator of Perennial Pastures Ranch (Southern California and Northern Montana). He oversees all aspects of the business from the grazing and fencing plans all the way to the marketing strategy and farmers markets.   Stay Connected with Kevin Muno:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialpasturesranch/  Website: https://perennialpasturesranch.com/    __________________________________________________________   Stay Connected with the Future Generations Podcast:  Instagram: @futuregenpodcast, @thefuturegensd  and @drstantonhom_  Facebook: Future Generations Podcast and Future Generations | Clinic of Chiropractic  Website: Future Generations | Clinic of Chiropractic  Remember to Rate, Review and Subscribe on iTunes and Follow us on Spotify!

On today's episode, Jesse Thompson and I chatted all about nurturing your mindset and your community as a ranching mom. Jesse is an incredible advocate and encourager of women in rural America. We talked all about being present in motherhood, spending our time intentionally, and how to cultivate relationships even when you live super rurally.  Jesse was born and raised as a farmer's daughter and is now married to a rancher and raising their 3 kids on the family ranch in Northern Montana. When she's not chasing kids or supporting her husband on the ranch, she's working as the Executive Administrator for the Montana Angus Association and publishing the Montana Angus News.  Somewhere along the way, she discovered a passion for writing and storytelling as well as making connections with other rural women, so she created Beyond the Fencelines. Beyond the Fencelines is a collaborative blog platform for rural women's stories to be shared, celebrated, honored, and published. Above everything else, she believes that all rural women have a story, and those stories and voices deserve to be heard. Beyond the Fencelines is a place for those stories to be published and live on forever. In this episode we cover:  The seasons of ranching and of motherhood; the good, the hard, and how they're always changing  The importance of community and connections - whether online or in person - especially when you live rurally How to combat the lonely times and feelings of isolation in motherhood Being content where you're at; settling into the moment and having the mindset shift to find internal peace Being intentional with how we spend our time  Resources & Links:  Email Jesse at jesse@beyondthefencelines.com Connect with Jesse on Instagram @beyond.the.fencelines The Cattleman U Planner  KRose Company | Production Sale Marketing Connect with us on Instagram at @krosecompany, @cattlemanu, @rose.karoline   Be sure to subscribe to the podcast so you never miss an episode!

I'm so excited to share my thoughtful and powerful conversation with Mariah Gladstone, the founder of Indigikitchen. Mariah is a community leader, food sovereignty activist, self-trained chef, digital entrepreneur, aerialist teacher and performer and so much more. She grew up on and off the Blackfeet Nation Reservation, located near Glacier National Park in Northern Montana. She moved to New York City to get a degree in Environmental Engineering from Columbia University and moved back to New York to attend the masters program at the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at Suny Syracuse. When the pandemic hit in the middle of her program, Mariah and her partner decided to return to the Blackfeet Nation and plant permanent roots.Indigikitchen is an online cooking platform where Mariah shares both traditional and modern preparations of Indigenous foods. In her cooking presentations Mariah weaves history lessons and ancestral knowledge into the episodes - offering so much more than just cooking demos. Through this work she hopes to build community, help reestablish Native food sovereignty, and provide a library of recipes using traditional Indigenous ingredients that are easily accessible, searchable, and shareable online. The idea came one week when she took some time off to attend a food sovereignty conference. The experience awoke a passion  in her, and she recognized the tremendous need for Native people to rebuild their local food systems and regain access to and knowledge of traditional foods. It didn't matter to her that she she didn't have any professional media or cooking experience. Instead, she was guided by her desire to do good for her community, and share rare and lost recipes. Mariah had a DSLR that she duct taped to a broken tripod and just got started. Even though the early videos had low production quality, she  was energized by the fact that people responded really positively to her work. In our conversation we speak about her work as an advocate for her community, how she built Indigikitchen with no prior media experience, moving from engineering to activism, her food and self-sufficiency practices on her homestead, and what it means for us to truly re-indiginize our diets. We also dive deep into the historical consequences of colonization on native foodways in the US, and what food sovereignty truly means to her. We speak about the effects of climate change on access to wild foods, climate adaptation strategies, and Mariah's incredibly valuable work in preserving and sharing ancient indigenous recipes from all over the world.This is a story about reconnecting with cultural and ancestral wisdom, using art and food as a catalyst for positive change and the importance of building strong local communities. To read her full feature visit: www.urbanexodus.com/blog

Join Mandi Kerr and Curtis Shuck, in this episode of Moving ^HEMP Forward. Curtis is the Chairman of the Well Done Foundation. Its vision came together during the Summer of 2019 after visiting the legacy Kevin-Sunburst Oilfield in Northern Montana and seeing firsthand the impacts of Orphan and Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells on the industry, communities, and the environment. That encounter left such a strong impression that Curtis felt compelled to take immediate action by leaving the oil patch better than the way that he had found it. Knowing that there was a better way and wanting to develop a collaborative approach to address the Orphan Well problem on a “One Well at a Time” basis in Montana, as well as launching a National Campaign, Curtis set out organizing the Well Done Foundation as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Since 2019 the WDF, made possible through the support of many generous donors and corporate sponsors, has plugged ten (10) orphan oil & gas wells in Montana, permanently reducing harmful Methane Gas emissions (80X more harmful than Carbon Dioxide) by more than 500,000 metric tons of CO2e. For the past 30+ years, Curtis has passionately focused his extensive public service and private sector careers on Oil and Energy-related transportation project development, capital project delivery, and business development activities in the Pacific Northwest and the Mid‐Continent. After nearly 20 years in the public sector, Curtis joined Red River Oilfield Services, Inc. in Williston, North Dakota as Vice President of Business Development in February of 2015 with a focus on the strategic development of Red River's business portfolio. His primary responsibility was the growth and diversification of its transportation and logistics programs and assets supporting the Bakken Oilfield. Curtis went on to take the role of President of Red River Oilfield Services, managing the company during the strong economic headwinds of the market downturn that drove a focus on optimization, strategic partnerships, and customer service initiatives. For this morning, they'll talk about: 1. The Well Done Mission 2. Development of Industrial Hemp as a WDF cement additive 3. Montana Technical University Research Project 4. Some next steps for Industrial Hemp in the Oil & Gas Industry

Join Mandi Kerr and Curtis Shuck, in this episode of Moving ^HEMP Forward. Curtis is the Chairman of the Well Done Foundation. Its vision came together during the Summer of 2019 after visiting the legacy Kevin-Sunburst Oilfield in Northern Montana and seeing firsthand the impacts of Orphan and Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells on the industry, communities, and the environment. That encounter left such a strong impression that Curtis felt compelled to take immediate action by leaving the oil patch better than the way that he had found it. Knowing that there was a better way and wanting to develop a collaborative approach to address the Orphan Well problem on a “One Well at a Time” basis in Montana, as well as launching a National Campaign, Curtis set out organizing the Well Done Foundation as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Since 2019 the WDF, made possible through the support of many generous donors and corporate sponsors, has plugged ten (10) orphan oil & gas wells in Montana, permanently reducing harmful Methane Gas emissions (80X more harmful than Carbon Dioxide) by more than 500,000 metric tons of CO2e. For the past 30+ years, Curtis has passionately focused his extensive public service and private sector careers on Oil and Energy-related transportation project development, capital project delivery, and business development activities in the Pacific Northwest and the Mid‐Continent. After nearly 20 years in the public sector, Curtis joined Red River Oilfield Services, Inc. in Williston, North Dakota as Vice President of Business Development in February of 2015 with a focus on the strategic development of Red River's business portfolio. His primary responsibility was the growth and diversification of its transportation and logistics programs and assets supporting the Bakken Oilfield. Curtis went on to take the role of President of Red River Oilfield Services, managing the company during the strong economic headwinds of the market downturn that drove a focus on optimization, strategic partnerships, and customer service initiatives. For this morning, they'll talk about: 1. The Well Done Mission 2. Development of Industrial Hemp as a WDF cement additive 3. Montana Technical University Research Project 4. Some next steps for Industrial Hemp in the Oil & Gas Industry

Breezy Point Energy's (BPE) mission is to combat the immediate threat to our planet brought on by climate change and improve the health and quality of life of the individuals in the communities where they live and work. Based in Northern Montana, home of the best wind results in the country, their wind, solar, energy storage, and green hydrogen generator solution, will be able to provide renewable energy 24/7 365 days a year without interruption with a zero-carbon footprint.  Heart Stock Radio is a production of KBMF102.5 and underwritten by Purse for the People

Wes takes us up to Glacier National Park to talk about another grizzly bear encounter, this time involving a man and his recently graduated daughter who decided to take a little trip up to Northern Montana together. The bear who attacked them probably didn't realize that this was a celebratory trip, otherwise it may have let their trespass into its territory slide. Jeff decides that hearing about a horrific grizzly bear attack only makes him want to go hike on that same trail our subjects were attacked on, and Mike still isn't convinced that Grizzly Bears just don't like eating bowling balls. Thanks again for listening! We hope you enjoy the episode.

Wes takes us up to Glacier National Park to talk about another grizzly bear encounter, this time involving a man and his recently graduated daughter who decided to take a little trip up to Northern Montana together. The bear who attacked them probably didn't realize that this was a celebratory trip, otherwise it may have let their trespass into its territory slide. Jeff decides that hearing about a horrific grizzly bear attack only makes him want to go hike on that same trail our subjects were attacked on, and Mike still isn't convinced that Grizzly Bears just don't like eating bowling balls. Thanks again for listening! We hope you enjoy the episode.

So we're going to talk about the three steps to prepare your business and sometimes your life for the upcoming holiday or any holiday. And we broke it down into three steps to make this easy. You know, this is a winning Wednesday podcast, so we're going to get into it step by step by step. And this is going to be really important, but let me first tell you what I don't want you to do.I do not want you to go on holiday. Whatever holiday that is and well on holiday constantly have this thread pulled of like, is this working? Is this breaking? Is this going, is this happening? That's preventing you from doing the thing that you're running the business for, which is to be present in, in your life. To be present and spending time with people you love to be present and having activities to be present and enjoying yourself.The reason that we do what we do and we have the impact that we have is so that we can also utilize that business as leverage, to have an impact in our life and we have to be present. So my one thing is I don't want you to be a firefighter. You don't get to go on holiday, go on Christmas, go on new years, going any holiday of the year and then come back and be like, I gotta put on all these fires.You can prevent all of them. And with some focus and intentionality. You will be able to enjoy yourself, come back stronger than ever, and absolutely rock the timeframe after the holiday. And I said, you can apply this to any holiday, but we're going to be talking about Christmas and new year's cause that's coming up, but I'm recording this podcast.So the team, and I broke this down into three simple buckets for you on how to prepare your business and your life for the upcoming holiday. And the three buckets are simple. Bucket. Number one is communicate. Bucket number two is test and bucket number three is clean. And it says again, bucket number one is communicate bucket. Number two is test and bucket number three is clean. And so I'm going to take you through each of these buckets and tell you what we're doing and what we recommend doing. And I want you to use this as a guide, add things to it that feel good to you. Take things away that might not be aligned to you or your business sync with your team. On coming up with a plan, from everybody, from you in the vision seat, CEO seat CMOs, CTOC wherever you are in the business. Or if you're an employee in a business, bring this to the boss of the business, bring this to the top, to help everybody win and come up with your plan. And so bucket number one on how to prepare your business for the upcoming holiday is number one communicate.And the first place that you have to communicate is with your team. So you have to make sure that everybody is aware of all the important initiatives that have to be wrapped up before the holidays. You have to be aware of everything that needs to be wrapped up before the holidays, and you have to put dates on them and close them so that they are complete. You have peace of mind and you can do the next step when we get there. Number two, do you have to let everybody on the team know what to expect when they come back from holiday? Hey guys, we're going to be off this time. This is what it's going to look like when we get back, this is how we're going to come back into the office. This is how we're going to set up a meeting. This is how we're going to align. You have to come up with a plan to lead the team. Number three, let everybody know your availability over the holidays ahead of time. Come up with very clear communication boundaries and escalation procedures. Hey guys, I'm not going to be available for four days around Christmas and on December 27th, because that's actually my birthday.And so if you do need to communicate with me with those times, just send me a message on Slack. Cause I'll check that when I'm back to work, if it's an emergency, you have my phone number. This is what constitutes an emergency. If one of you gets arrested, if you know, the world ends, if our entire business explodes without us knowing. Come up with every. Clear delineation boundary communication strategy required. And then number four is give your team permission to take some time off and focus on themselves and family, give your team permission, tell them to go away, tell them to ignore you. Be like, Hey, if I'm having a panic attack. And I don't escalate it up and it doesn't fit into the bucket. Ignore me, do not respond, do not come back. And I'm gonna challenge you to protect yourself and don't send it to them, write it down until you get back to your meeting. So the first thing is to communicate with your team.So make sure everybody's aware of all the important initiatives that have to be wrapped. Make sure you let everybody know what to expect when they come back from the holidays. Make sure everybody knows your availability over the holidays. And how to communicate what to escalate and then give your team permission to take time and focus on themselves and family. And my last step is make sure you ask your team on how to best communicate with your customers for this next step.So in the bucket of communication, you have team and then you have customers. So now when we get into customers, you need to communicate to your customers. You need to lead them as they prepare for the holiday. So set them up to win while you're away, set expectations, let them know what's coming leading up to the holiday and where you're going to be over the holiday. Let them know what to expect when you come back from the holiday. Let them know your availability as a company over the holidays and give them permission to take time off and focus on themselves and families. You have plenty of communication channels. You probably have an email list. You probably have social media, you can have ads. You have a lot of ways to do this, but you need to treat your customers like you treat your team and you need to set expectations. That's what leadership is. That's what our business is. That is what we are doing. And so help them prepare and set them up to win without you so they can have wins in their life. Associated with you and then let them know when you're coming back and what to expect when you come back so they can get excited. They can come back in, they can maintain flow with you and keep going. So bucket number one is communicate so clearly communicate with your team. And then clearly communicate with your customers, which then leads us to bucket number twoBucket number two is test, and you need to test everything that's going to be running well, your gone and I mean, test it all if you like. Oh, I made sure I turned the water off and there was a little drip and you go away for holiday. Your house has flooded, even if you're sure. Double check and triple check, just to make sure to give yourself that peace of mind, but think about all the things that we have running while we're gone, you and all of your employees get to take some time off your ads can run, set them up, go into your ad account and set some parameters. So if it breaks, it shuts itself off. If it hits a certain threshold, it's such itself off. That was a hard thing to say. If it hits a certain threshold, it shuts itself off. If it stops converting at it was converting, it shuts itself off. Your ads team knows how to do this, let them do it. What about your scheduled posts? Do you have them scheduled? Are they scheduled it in Facebook? They schedule it in creator studio for Instagram or your podcasts scheduled. Test them, make sure the links are live. Make sure they're good. Test one today and get it scheduled to nobody can see it. Have it published privately and make sure it works.Test your email automations. Do you have emails prescriptive out, check them, read them, proofread them. Check your funnels if you have them. Check your products if you have them check your integrations. If you have them, this is a perfect time to do a full the wall audit. Of all the moving parts in your business and be aware that they're oiled they're working properly, or they might need a little bit of attention to run smooth if they're ignored for a couple of days, because they're doing their job, check your zaps. If you have integrations, like when somebody buys this, it goes here and it goes here, create some test emails and go through all of them, go through the entire business with you and your team. And ask them all, Hey, we're going to be off. What would we need to check to make sure that all of us can not show up, not log in, not look at anything for five days and make a list and then go check and check and check and design it to run. As it's supposed to do to allow you to do that. The reasons technology and automations are so powerful is because they are designed to replace us. They are not designed for us to micromanage every day. And then take all of our time doing it.So utilize them to their capacity. These things work every single day. And when you are aware of them and you pay attention to them, you oil them correctly, they work. So make sure everything is functioning properly in case nothing is checked by a human for the next week and then utilize those same automations with parameters you have things like in Zapier, if one of your zaps doesn't work, it sends you an email. You have these safety nets in place to do this, but it's time to look at the business and time to look at the flow. As an easy way to create space. How beautiful is it that we can have our ads running during the holidays wishing our customers a Merry Christmas, a happy new year, a happy Valentine's day, a happy Thanksgiving. Well also generating and selling our products, which is going into our store, which is automating and sending them to our three PL and then shipping the product out, which is then triggering the emails that we pre wrote for those sequences are those broadcasts are going out that we wrote. But if you take a little bit of time to plan and you do it correctly, You get peace of mind when you are out or enjoying the reason you're building this business and you get to come back to everything working, and then you assess and you move on. No reason to fight fires, no reason to do anything. So test everything and please test everything leaves no stone unturned. Peace of mind is a gift. So test everything.So step number one is communicate clearly communicate with your team and communicate with your customers. Step number two is to test and to test everything you test, have your team test put up out of office responses. Test them. Put up auto replies on the iPhone. One of my favorite things is I do this little hack, but if you use do not disturb mode on the iPhone, it's technically designed for when you're driving, but I don't use it when I'm driving. You can change the message. So I'll turn on, quote, unquote, the driving motor do not disturb mode and I'll have my message say I'm out of the office for four days. If you need anything, send it to my inbox so I can get it when I get back at my convenience. Okay. So test everything. Which leads us to bucket number three.Bucket number three is clean, clean, clean, clean, tidy up your workspace. There are three places that you can clean. You can clean physically. You can clean digitally and you can clean mentally. Start physically clean up your desk, clean up your office, have all of your employees clean up. The best thing to come back to is a clean space free of clutter. Ready to see, ready to go and ready to get to work with no distractions. So use this as an opportunity, clean up the office right before you leave, maybe decorate a new thing.Maybe remove something to create space, maybe get rid of that thing that's been say, sitting there that you've been putting off. When you come back, it's already handled.Clean up your digital space. Empty your inbox, clean up your desktop, clean up your Dropbox. Get rid of all these extra files. Get rid of all this clutter. Have you and your employees do the whole thing, make a competition out of it. Before you guys go out of the office, get on a zoom party and have a competition with everybody's doing it. Like who can clean their desktop, the fastest, you know, who can clean their physical space. Give your team a competition who decorated their desks the best for when they come back, but clean your physical space. Clean your digital space and then clean your mental space. When you leave that office, whether it's your virtual office, your digital office, your laptop, wherever it is, I want you to leave everything there. So in the mental space process, whatever you have to process, do some breath, work, write some things down. And have a notebook, have a physical medium and write out everything that's open in your brain and don't leave until everything that's opening your brain has been documented. So your brain is on paper. You know what you have when you come back and then you can go be fully present. And bask in the results that you've created in your life and in your business.And it doesn't matter where you are. Give yourself time to be present. Give yourself time to charge the batteries, give yourself time to enjoy the gift of presence so that you can refill your gas tank and come back to rock and roll and win the Olympics. It feels amazing when you come back to a clean and organized space, it feels amazing when you come back to working with people that are all in the same thing.And so the three containers that you have to use to set your business and life up to win for any holiday and coming back is communication, testing and cleaning. And when you come back, I'm going to highly recommend when you come back, you don't jump into the work set expectations so that when you come back, you guys have a meeting and a kickoff meeting, a resync meeting, come get plugged back in, come get back aware of what's there. Do an audit of all the things that you guys have going on and come up with a plan and get started with the new marching orders and a crystal clear direction in that clean space. Well, everything was running to focus on all of your initiatives.And so in order to be congruent with what I just talked about, I need to tell you what our plans are. As I take a sip of my coffee. So for us, we are going to be publishing podcasts on the normal days, which means we are actually dropping a podcast on Christmas day. And we are dropping a podcast on new year's and both of them are going to be special episodes. I'm still working on them, but they're going to be special episodes. So if you want to, and it's a part of your relaxation, listen to the podcast. If you don't wait until you get back and listen to it, but we will be publishing our podcasts as regularly scheduled. So Christmas day, there will be a podcast and new years, there will be a podcast.We are still running ads. We still have our ads running for amazing eternal flame method. Email marketing masterclass. We have the on demand training. The ads will still be running in case people are wanting to consume it or wanting to work over the holidays, or maybe they only take a day off. All of our ads will still be running and everybody, yourself included can still come into the eternal flame method, which is our email marketing masterclass training. Or you just want to jump in and join. And so that you can go to www.lightmyeternalflame.com to join. Or you can go to the www.Eternalflamemethod.com to watch the training. We're still as always accepting people into our mastermind as always meaning it's open enrollment right now. And so if you want to join our mastermind, if you want to be a part of our family, if you want to join all these skyrocket results, you see people posting and they're tagging me and the team and shoot us an email. My personal email is GeorgeB, so georgeb@georgebryant.com to set up a 15 minute discovery call. So. No form, no nothing. Shoot us an email with a subject line, mastermind my team or spot on, and we'll set up a call to see how we can best support you moving into the new year after these holidays to set your focus and whatever we can do to support you.And we will not be working on Christmas day and on new year's day. And I probably won't be working for quite a few days around those because it's my birthday and we're moving 18 hours away and driving with three horses, two cars, three snakes, and a whole lot of stuff over 18 hours. And so, yeah. I am going to be working on my family and in my life, or the team is working, but we will not be working on Christmas day or on new year's day.And when we come back from the holiday, we are going to be kicking off the new year with a entirely new level of focus and intentionality to absolutely change the game when it comes to ethically building and scaling businesses, whether it's your customer journey, whether it's your email, whether it's your social, we are here in your corner to help you win gold. And the level of focus that we have that we have been working on for the last couple of months, the plan. Everything coming out is an absolute new level that I don't think anybody's experienced from us before. And I am excited about it. And we're going to be posting about all of it in our Facebook group, which is the relationships beat, algorithms Facebook group, which most of you are in. And if you are not go jump in just search relationships beats algorithms on Facebook, or go to mindofgeorgi.com and it links over. That's what we have coming up. That's what we are doing. So you will still be able to hear podcasts. If you shoot us an email. We might take a couple of days to get back. Cause we're not responding on Christmas or new year's day and I'm not responding on my birthdays that's a family day. We are doing all of what we teach our ads. We'll still be running. Our content will still be posted because it's all automated and it's all posted. Feel free to engage. We might engage cause that's fun for me. But most importantly, I want you to set yourself up to win. I want you to set your team up to win. I want you to set your family up to win, and I want you to have a plan. I want you to clearly communicate. I want you to clearly test, and then I want you to clean and I want you to have all of those things. So when you come back, it's time to win your race, stay focused, run your best race and keep going.So that's today's episode, that's the winning Wednesday. That is the three ways to prepare your business for the upcoming holiday, what we're doing. And I will be sure to document this road trip because I have a feeling a lot of humor is going to arise from driving cross country, Northern up to Northern Montana in the middle of the winter. With two cars, three kids, three snakes. And I think we're bringing the horses and if not, we're using the horse trailer to move our stuff. And so this'll be fun because we're going to live in Airbnbs. We're going and taking the family on an adventure. One of the reasons I'm cleaning, all of my stuff is I want to be able to explore life and adventure with my kids and prove the story of me. Not having a home and struggling with homelessness and a lot of other things. And so I'm excited about this adventure. I'll make sure that I'm documenting it all so you can have your laugh, you can see it all, but most importantly, I want you to plan so you can have the best holiday ever. I'll see you guys in the podcast and Christmas, I'll see you guys in the podcast on new year's day. And I'll also see you guys in all the podcasts after this, but since we talked about planning for the holidays, that's what we're gonna talk about.So go create a plan. Communicate well. Test your automations, test everything in your business and then clean your space so you can rock and roll no matter what day of the week it is. I hope it's absolutely beautiful. You and remember throughout your day, as much as possible, whenever you need it, take a minute to just sit back, take a deep breath and appreciate everything that's around you. Breath is the gift of life. I don't practice it enough, so I'm going to practice it right now

America Outdoors Executive Director Aaron Bannon is a Casper Wyoming native, spent two years in the Peace Corps and ten years in conservation advocacy before settling in Lander Wyoming to work with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS)   Facebook Twitter Instagram   The Outdoor Biz Podcast   Please give us a rating and review HERE   Show Notes America Outdoors Executive Director Aaron Bannon is a Casper Wyoming native, spent two years in the Peace Corps and ten years in conservation advocacy before settling in Lander Wyoming to work with the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) My guest today is a Casper, Wyoming native. He spent two years in the Peace Corps and 10 years in conservation advocacy before settling in Lander, Wyoming to work with the National Outdoor Leadership School, America Outdoors executive Aaron Bannon.   Yeah, I've been in Lander for about 13 years. So a good chunk of life. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. It's a beautiful spot. A lot of people will hit it, like on their way to Grand Tetons or Yellowstone or something like that. But for those who hang out, uh, yeah, there's, it's kind of a climbing Mecca. So you'd find a lot of climbers who make their home here. There's a, you know, a lot of unique formations up in sinks Canyon and the wind river age that are a consistent draw. A lot of history there too. How'd you get introduced to the outdoors must have been as a kid, right, growing up? My dad would take us camping every year up in the Big Horn Mountains, which are just a couple of hours North of Casper. There was this annual camping trip. We'd always go to the same spot. I wanted to do a little bit more and I can recall in high school a couple of total junk show backpacking trips that I tried to do with my friends. We took cast iron pots, just ridiculous. But we knew enough to figure it out and certainly enough to still enjoy it. You spent some time with the Peace Corps too. Where, where were you in the world during that time? I was in Russia. It was an interesting time, right? It was from 1996 to 1998. And the Berlin wall had just recently fell. The iron curtain had just recently dissolved and I think we were only the second group, maybe the third group of peace Corps volunteers that Russia was even accepting. That program is over now. They don't feel like they need to be treated like a developing country basically. But lucky me, I got to go there when I did. I was teaching English in a small town of 150 people. Basically I taught all the grade levels and it was fairly remote. You spent some time in DC and in San Francisco as a conference conservation consultant, how those experiences impacted your career? I had no idea how helpful all that time would be to what I'm doing now. I was doing media work in DC and got to understand the news cycle, let's say you know what you need to do if you want to try to impact or change it. What a press release needs to look like and stuff for media. And training folks who are going to be in front of the camera. I was like a junior media officer. I don't mean to inflate what I was doing, but I learned a lot. But I always wanted to work on campaigns. Conservation campaigns and as I carried into San Francisco, I was even doing it here in Wyoming. I started to get a sense of what it takes to sort of set the goal, strive for it and overcome, let's say more well-funded adversaries, uh, and, uh, and, and find, find those opportunities. And it's always about sort of grassroots organizing, working with partners. There's a lot of egos that people bring to it which is always challenging. It's all about trying to get the right voice, with the right concern, to the point of decision, whoever that is, right. Whoever you decide your target is, be it a governor or senator, or a company. In the case of that San Francisco role with we're doing a lot of market space campaigns and trying to influence people's shares. And that would be enough to a lot of times to change their corporate behavior. What are you guys working on these days with America Outdoors? Work has been all about just trying to protect the operational capabilities of our membership, which is all our guides and outfitters. We're not a huge association. There's three of us right now at America Outdoors. Let's say three paid staff that the membership engages with regularly and is incredibly helpful in everything. So we've been at a level of just trying to interpret what's coming down and how we can help folks sustain their businesses. There are tons of guides and outfitters who've been shut down are not going to operate at all this summer. Then there are other people who will work and try to pull it off. I would say probably 80 to 90% of our membership is going to try to pull it off in one fashion or another. A number of them are gonna try to do it and probably do it at a loss because they recognize the importance of connecting people with the outdoors. How are you guys navigating the Covid environment specifically? Let's talk about America Outdoors first. It's been a direct hit for sure. We're a lobbying organization in the eyes of the federal government. So some of the relief packages that have come through we have not been eligible for. The Payroll Protection Program doesn't work for lobbying organizations. And like I said, we're three people now, we were for a month and a half ago. I took a pay cut. We had to reduce a staff member from full time to quarter time. We had to lay off someone else with the hopes that we could bring them back if we have a high and successful membership renewal. Right now we're in the middle of the membership renewal. So yeah, it's been as hard on us At the same time, we've still tried to perform. We've been pushing a ton of content out to our guides and outfitters really and to the entire industry. We've tried to break down those lines and make everything we have available to people. Whether it's working with them through the Payroll Protection Program, or whether it's, helping them understand their insurance, liability waivers, or trying to get leaders in the various public lands management agencies to connect with our membership and think about what the closures looked like or what reopening looks like. I think there are a couple of folks who are going to have a really good year if they've got like a livery, right. If they're renting gear you can use to go kayak somewhere, you know? The river didn't shut down, those guys are gonna do okay. Maybe do really well. On the other hand, I mean, you look at grand Canyon. I think they just opened up last weekend, but not to boaters. So those guides and outfitters who were running commercial trips down Grand Canyon are waiting until I think Friday is when they get to start going. So they've already lost like six weeks out of their eighteen to twenty week season, something like that. Have you heard from guides and outfitters about how they're changing their day to day operations? Yeah, I would say they're rising to the occasion. I think for operators who have dispersed operations doing a lot of different kinds of trips across the country and have a lot of different bases, they've sort of not been able to pull that off because you know, every agency, every site, every forest has a different protocol, every County. And sometimes the forest is saying you have to comply with all the counties that overlap. So I think the guides and outfitters that we're doing at best are setting expectations for people too. So when people show up, they know what they're getting, they're sort of constraining their operation in a way that they can manage it. You know, shuttles are real pickle trying to turn people around in a 15 passenger van and still respect social distancing or whatever. So they're either fogging their buses after every trip or let's say like having people wear face masks. Maybe setting up partitions between the seats. Going to all these lengths and just trying to actively clean and maybe push some of their operation outside. Maybe the registration desk is moved from the retail shop to the front porch or something. And also like posting all these protocols, that's a key part of it. There are some significant changes in the world ahead of us. What have you seen or heard in the last few weeks that are inspiring to you? You know Rick, it feels like we're just moving from one big societal wake-up call to the next doesn't it? Cause we certainly not through the coronavirus. Like we are in the middle of it. I expect a second wave. I don't know when that's going to come, but with all those folks close together and all those protests sites. George Floyd's death and everything that's come from that, the global movement for equality has been remarkable to watch. And for me in this position has been a wake-up call that we have been probably slow to evolve as an industry, you know? It's a predominantly white industry, at least the parts that I see. Certainly, you don't have to go that far South to see that there's plenty of people who love the outdoors who are black or Brown. And I think it's kind of presumptuous to categorize like towards this white space, but when you go to an America Outdoors conference that's what it looks like. So I think we have our work cut out for us to be relevant from now on You mentioned you were out outside with your kids recently. What other activities do you participate in these days? I have a six-year-old and a 10-year-old. So you know, we visit the state parks, Wyoming State Parks has put up a number of yurts all across their system. There's a really nice Canyon just outside of Lander called Sinks Canyon. We were going up there and spent a few days. It's literally a 20-minute drive, which is nice. And you're really in it, we found a walk-in yurt that's really close to the river. It's the Little Porosia River that runs through there. And we went on hikes, went looking for wildflowers. And do you know about that Forrest Fen poem, you know what I'm talking about? Forrest Fen is a guy out of Santa Fe who wrote a poem, he had cancer I think. I thought it was like 98. It could have been, it could have been the early oughts. He's like a rare goods collector and he hit a treasure in the Rockies somewhere. So we were looking for it. I wanted to sort of get the kids excited, so nothing like a treasure hunt. And he had landed here. He flew into Lander like back in 2003 and people would conjecture that he may have even possibly buried his treasure up Sinks, Canyon. So I was said, let's go find it. I'm curious where they found it, they haven't said where they found it. It was like off the Yellowstone River, just outside of the park in Northern Montana. But we'll see. Do you have any suggestions or advice for folks that might want to get into the outdoor adventure biz? Yeah. let's think about folks who have been in an urban environment for a long time and are trying to find a connection. Because I think the paths are a little bit more clear for folks who've had had that. So you know, if you want to be a guide and outfitter, you sorta gotta be a grunt for a while. You gotta get into the ground level. You gotta paddle the supply boat for awhile. But you don't need stuff, you know? Stuff is fun and it's easy to collect and I have more stuff than I need, but I think what you really need is that, you know, a desire for adventure. Look at a map, find that outdoor space that's nearby and go explore it. I remember a time I was living in DC and I got a pair of pants for Christmas that were lined, I think they were these thin polyester pants that had sort of this mesh lining. I was like, Oh, look, these are winter camping pants. I drove into the Shenandoah and went camping because I had these pants. Well, the pants didn't do anything. They were not the equipment that I needed. But it was still just like being inadequately supplied and surviving. Your first time is always a disaster. Do you have a favorite piece of outdoor gear under a hundred dollars? Yea, this is a little bit of metaphorical, I guess, but it's going to be like a Brunton compass. It's a company that manufactured these things for years, just out of Riverton, Wyoming, 30 minutes North of here. Get a quality compass, figure out how to use it, get a map, like USGS map at $8 a pop or a few of them. So you got a few quads, then you can figure out where you're going. That's my favorite piece of equipment. If you could have a huge banner to hang at the entrance to the outdoor retailer show, what would it say? I've been to the Outdoor Retailer show. The America Outdoors doesn't usually have booth there, which is funny, but yeah, good question. Um, gosh, it's like, “we are still here” is almost what I think the banner should say. And I really hope that's the case. I'll tell you what, we've done a number of surveys of the guides and outfitters, just to see how things were going. And when this first sort of kicked off people were saying that if things were shut down for three months or more that they would be out of work, 35% of guides and outfitters were saying that. 60% of guides and outfitters were saying that if they were shut down for six months or more that their businesses wouldn't survive. So, this has all been about survival, right? So as we wrap up, is there anything else you want to say or ask our listeners? I just want to appreciate everybody who tunes into your show and tries to find ways to get outdoors and find good gear. It's a great thing that you're doing. I think we both understand that gear is a means to an end. It's great to have good stuff. But it's not necessary to have a great experience. So whatever it takes to facilitate people's ability to find some time in nature. Chill out, get your head together, get your boat in the water, whatever it takes it's invaluable. If people want to follow up with you, what's the best way? americaoutdoors.org/contact     Please rate and review us  HERE  Thank you! [DISPLAY_ULTIMATE_PLUS]

On episode 162 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, we welcome Patrick to the show to recount some of the strange and surreal stories of a lifetime with the unknown. First, Patrick and a friend find themselves lost with an unstable conspiracy theorist in the backcountry of Northern Montana in the winter of 1996. With all bets off, the two boys are forced to follow the bizarre man to safety, but not before he shows them an enormous UFO flying directly overhead, which shatters their reality and casts doubt that the strange guide may be telling the truth after all. And then, along the banks of a small river in New Jersey, a fisherman and his brother come face to face with an unimaginable entity. Two years later along this same stretch of river, Patrick watches up close as an extraordinary object hovers in the forest, sending wildlife scattering in all directions, before shooting skyward through the trees and disappearing into the heavens. And lastly, several strange encounters leave Patrick mystified at a place known by locals as Ghost Lake. Register for FREE for the All The Strange Virtual eXpo on May 30th to watch an exclusive presentation by Ryan and a handful of other awesome guest speakers! https://allthestrange.com/registration/ Special thanks to Patrick for sharing these stories with us. If you have a story you'd like to share on the show, please reach out by using the contact tab on the website to discuss more: www.somewhereintheskies.com/contact.html Website: www.somewhereintheskies.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/somewhereskies YouTube Channel: CLICK HERE Official Store: CLICK HERE Order Ryan's Book by CLICKING HERE Twitter: @SomewhereSkies Instagram: @SomewhereSkiesPod Watch Mysteries Decoded for free at www.CWseed.com Episode edited by Jane Palomera Moore Opening Theme Song, "Ephemeral Reign" by Per Kiilstofte SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES is part of the eOne podcast network. To learn more, CLICK HERE

[Interview starts at 27:44] This week I have the pleasure of interviewing perhaps the nicest human being on the planet, Tim Linehan of Linehan Outfitters in Libby, Montana.  I think you'll get a sense of what kind of person he is by listening in.  We talk about how the recent pandemic has affected fishing guides and lodges, but on a more fun note, Tim describes his fishery in northern Montana--the only place in Montana where you can catch a true native rainbow trout (rainbows on famous rivers like the Madison, Bighorn, Missouri, and Gallatin were originally stocked).   In the fly box this week, we have these tips and questions: An easy way to make crab eyes Why don't people use a piece of yarn in between blood knots as a strike indicator? Will a 3-weight switch rod handle streamers for smallmouths? What can I do to protect flies and tying materials? Can I use springbok hair in place of deer hair? Can I fish tungsten nymphs on a sinking line effectively? When do I set the hook when sight-nymphing for trout? How do you re-sharpen fly-tying scissors? If I test my dry flies in water and they tip over on their sides, should I still use them? Some further information on how chemical sharpening of hooks works  

Coronavirus has touched all of our lives, but we must persevere on. From their bunkers in the remote wilderness of Northern Montana, Tika & Thego recap a week that can be described, at best, as unbelievable. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON Twitter Instagram Snapchat: @TikaNThego LINKS: 3.15.20 R.I.P The Gambler Viral HUD Mr. Rainbow Troompaloompa The Bad Bakker Grand Incendie When You Need A 'Smith Pass The Hot Sauce Missing The Connection

I am starting a new series, interviewing people from around the world on how Coronavirus is impacting them. I will showcase as broad a variety of perspectives as possible so that we can get out of our echo chamber, learn what challenges other people are dealing with and get out of our own heads.  Lyle Benjamin is an agriculture expert living in a remote part of Northern Montana 2 miles from the Canadian border.  We talk about how things have changed with the Coronavirus; border crossings, preparing for the longer term, and how people are meeting in person.@LyleBenjamin4@VanceCrowe

Bison bison! Not just something to holler into the sky, but also the scientific name for North America's majestic wild bovines that once roamed the plains in the tens of millions. What's up with their humps? On what occasion do they wear capes? What noises do they make? How many are out there? What are the best ways to help them? In this special episode, you get 4x the usual number of ologists as we talk to archeologist Dr. Ken Cannon, wildlife biologist Dr. Dan McNulty, Alie's cousin Boyd and his wife Lila Evans, of the Blackfeet Tribe, who are bison ranchers based in Northern Montana. Also, once and for all: is it buffalo or bison? And can Alie hug one?  A donation went to: Inter-Tribal Bison Council (ITBC) https://itbcbuffalonation.org Sponsor links: Gabi.com/OLOGIES; stitchfix.com/ologies More links at alieward.com/ologies/bisonology Transcripts & bleeped episodes at: alieward.com/ologies-extras Become a patron of Ologies for as little as a buck a month: www.Patreon.com/ologies OlogiesMerch.com has hats, shirts, pins, totes and STIIIICKERS! Follow twitter.com/ologies or instagram.com/ologies Follow twitter.com/AlieWard or instagram.com/AlieWard Sound editing by Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media & Steven Ray Morris Theme song by Nick Thorburn Support the show.

Ivy & Ivan MacDonald are a brother and sister filmmaking duo from the Blackfeet tribe of Northern Montana. Currently, they're working on "When They Were Here," a feature documentary about the serial disappearances and murders of indigenous woman across Montana. Ivy and Ivan are based out of Missoula, Montana. Ivy and Ivan talk about the process of filming a story that's extremely close to their personal lives and going after financing for the film. "When They Were Here" was chosen by the Big Sky Film Institute's Native Filmmaker Initiative and their fellowship program to help find and develop Native films and filmmakers. Ivy and Ivan are finishing up a demo reel to find the final financing for the film. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/americanfilmmaker/support

Anna Jones-Crabtree, Doug Crabtree, and their new Farm Operations Foreman Paul Neubauer discuss building a new agrarian community, the role of long-term mentorship, and important moments in their respective agrarian journeys. Paul is the new Farm Operations Foreman at at Vilicus Farms, an organic, dryland crop farm in Northern Hill County, Montana founded by Anna Jones-Crabtree and Doug Crabtree. Since 2009, Vilicus Farms has grown to a 7,400-acre organic farming operation with a conservation-based ethic. In addition to stewarding their land, Anna and Doug are also committed to cultivating beginning farmers. They launched a beginning organic farmer apprenticeship program in 2013 to build their community in Northern Montana. We hope you enjoy the inaugural episode of the Regeneration Rising podcast.

In 1893, Grover Cleveland discovered a cancerous tumor on the roof of his mouth. It was feared that public knowledge of the president's illness might set off a financial panic, so Cleveland suggested a daring plan: a secret surgery aboard a moving yacht. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe the president's gamble -- and the courageous reporter who threatened to expose it. We'll also audit some wallabies and puzzle over some welcome neo-Nazis. Intro: Robert Louis Stevenson inadvertently borrowed much of Treasure Island from Washington Irving. When Graeme Gibson donated his parrot to the Toronto Zoo, it suddenly called after him. Sources for our feature on Grover Cleveland's secret surgery: Matthew Algeo, The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth, 2011. William Williams Keen, The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1893, 1917. Shahid R. Aziz, "The Oral Surgical Operations of Grover Cleveland: A Presidential Cover-Up," Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 53:9 (1995), 1088-1090. W.O. Fenn et al., "Dr. Joseph Bryant's Role in President Grover Cleveland's Secret Anesthesia and Surgery," Anesthesiology 119:4 (October 2013), 889. "The Secret Operation on President Cleveland," British Medical Journal 1:3568 (May 25, 1929), 965. Ronald H. Spiro, "Verrucous Carcinoma, Then and Now," American Journal of Surgery 176:5 (1998), 393-397. Andrew Renehan and J.C. Lowry, "The Oral Tumours of Two American Presidents: What If They Were Alive Today?", Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 88:7 (1995), 377. Philip H. Cooper, "President Cleveland's Palatal Tumor," Archives of Dermatology 122:7 (1986), 747-748. Richard L. Rovit and William T. Couldwell, "A Man for All Seasons: WW Keen," Neurosurgery 50:1 (2002), 181-190. "Without Prejudice," British Medical Journal 2:5467 (Oct. 16, 1965), 938. John J. Brooks and Horatio T. Enterline, "The Final Diagnosis of President Cleveland's Lesion," JAMA 244:24 (1980), 2729-2729. William Maloney, "Surreptitious Surgery on Long Island Sound," New York State Dental Journal 76:1 (January 2010), 42-45. Robert S. Robins and Henry Rothschild, "Ethical Dilemmas of the President's Physician," Politics and the Life Sciences 7:1, Medicine and Political Behavior (August 1988), 3-11. Richard Norton Smith, "'The President Is Fine' and Other Historical Lies," Columbia Journalism Review 40:3 (September/October 2001), 30-32. "A Yacht, A Mustache: How A President Hid His Tumor," Morning Edition, National Public Radio, July 6, 2011. "Grover Cleveland - Secret Surgery," University of Arizona Health Sciences Library, July 20, 2018. Arlene Shaner, "The Secret Surgeries of Grover Cleveland," New York Academy of Medicine, Feb. 27, 2014. Paul Maloney, "Grover Cleveland's Secret Surgery," Grover Cleveland Birthplace Memorial Association (accessed July 23, 2018). "Dr. W.W. Keen Dies; Famous Surgeon," New York Times, June 8, 1932. Abigail Trafford, "Presidential Illness: Are Coverups Still Possible?", Montreal Gazette, Jan. 8, 1987, A1. Martin D. Tullai, "Health Secret Was Once Possible for U.S. President," Salt Lake Tribune, March 14, 1994, A6. Allan B. Schwartz, "Medical Mystery: Grover Cleveland’s Secret Operation," Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 24, 2016. Dan Gunderman, "The Secretive, Disfiguring Medical Battle Waged by President Grover Cleveland as the Nation Fell Into a Deep Depression," New York Daily News, Dec. 25, 2016. David Steinberg, "Should the President Undergo Independent Medical Evaluations?", Boston Globe, May 27, 2018, A.4. Listener mail: "Wallabies in Onchan," Onchan and Garff Area Matters, Facebook, July 12, 2018. Samantha Harrelson, "Wandering Kangaroo Causes Rollover Crash Near Dodson in Northern Montana," KTVQ, June 21, 2018. "Two Injured in Montana After Swerving to Avoid a Kangaroo or Wallaby," KULR 8, June 21, 2018. Rob Rogers, "Startled Driver Rolls Car to Avoid 'Kangaroo' in Northern Montana," Billings Gazette, June 21, 2018. "Prohibited Species," Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (accessed Aug. 16, 2018). "Animals Go Wild! The Wallabies of Kalihi Valley," Hawaii News Now (accessed Aug. 16, 2018). "Native Animals," New Zealand Department of Conservation (accessed Aug. 16, 2018). "Kawau Island Wallabies," New Zealand Department of Conservation (accessed Aug. 16, 2018). Wikipedia, "Kawau Island: History" (accessed Aug. 12, 2018). This week's lateral thinking puzzle was devised by Sharon. Here are three corroborating links (warning -- these spoil the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

During the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union, each side developed and demanded more military might. The best deterrent for an all out war, they thought, was a strategic nuclear armament, so large, that each side would ultimately destroy each other, and the whole earth, some 300,000 times over if anyone made the first move. It was a time of high tension, of nuclear holocaust fear and duck and cover propaganda. To reach the Soviet Union, the United States placed 1000s of nuclear armaments in Northern Montana strategically placed near the Malmstrom Air Force Base in Great Falls, Montana. The country-side was literally dotted with Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile installations. Today, most of these have been decommissioned as part of armament treaties and partly due to age and lack of upgrading. There is, however, a significant amount of newer, more powerful, nuclear weapon silos on and near the base.On our last episode we discussed the Mariana UFO incident and we left you with a question why there has been and continues to be a high number of UFO sightings in Great Falls Montana. And I think by now you have already figured this one out.This is Unsolved Mysteries of the World, Season 3 Episode 14, The Minutemen Guardians. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We are back from a summer hiatus with a new episode and an update on our family travels so far this summer! Tamara has been to Arizona, New Mexico, Maine, and Italy, while Kim and her family have been exploring the new ToyStory Land at Disney World and Northern Montana. Join us as we share our summer travels and stay tuned for another update next month! Don't worry, we will be back to a regular schedule in the fall. ON THE PODCAST 00:32 - Sponsor The Family Backpack 01:08 - Talking with Kim and Tamara 01:22 - Tamara’s trip to Arizona 05:05 - Hotel Adeline 06:07 - Driving to New Mexico 07:05 - White Sands National Monument 08:24 - Truth or Consequences 10:32 - Driving around New Mexico 11:28 - Time in Albuquerque 16:50 - Kim’s trip to Toy Story Land 18:05 - The three main attractions 20:50 - Woody’s Lunch Box 26:11 - New with Fastpass 28:13 - Tamara’s trip to Italy 29:48 - Day trip to Ravello 32:04 - Gardens 33:31 - Car issues in Naples 40:03 - Tuscan Organic Tours 41:36 - Wine in the area 42:13 - Podere Le Ripi winery 44:50 - Agriturismo outside of Pienza 46:58 - Kim trip back to Montana 48:24 - Grabbing the brass ring 50:14 - Tamarack Brewing 51:22 - Bison range 53:40 - Flathead Lake 55:05 - Trying huckleberry 55:53 - Izaak Walton Inn 58:16 - Glacier National Park/Horseback riding 1:02:05 - East Glacier 1:03:02 - Glamping experience 1:04:22 - Whitefish 1:05:04 - Aerial adventure course 1:06:23 - Upcoming trips ABOUT FAMILY BACKPACK Our presenting sponsor is The Family Backpack, a time-and stress-saving tool for parents researching and planning family vacations. The Family Backpack has researched and curated over 2,000 posts from over 200 blogs to provide parents the best of family travel content from over 600 destinations worldwide - all in one easily searchable place. Whether trekking around your own city, road tripping with your kids or flying around the world, visit TheFamilyBackpack.comfor itineraries, tips, packing lists, tons of travel inspiration and more! MENTIONED ON THE PODCAST White Sands National Monument El Paso Episode Disney Deciphered Maxpass and Fastpass Tuscan Organic Tours Podere Le Ripi Winery Tamarack Brewing Izaak Walton Inn FOLLOW US AND SPREAD THE WORD! If you liked this show, please be sure to subscribe on iTunes, Stitcher, orGoogle Playand leave us a review! Have a question or comment? Send us an email or leave us a voicemail at +1.641.715.3900, ext. 926035# You can also follow our travels on Stuffed Suitcaseand We3Travel, or follow the Vacation Mavens on Instagram, Facebookor Twitter. Thanks for listening!

It’s no secret the RV Industry is on a tear. Record sales continue and every month, thousands of new RVers are hitting the roads. But where will they all stay? The sad fact is there just are not enough campsites to keep pace with the growth in RV sales. And many of the existing campgrounds are poorly kept up. Fortunately, all that is about to change as across North America, developers are building out new, modern, state of the art campgrounds that sometimes more resemble all-inclusive vacation spots than empty fields with electric pedestals. In this week’s podcast, we interview one of those developers who talks about the upcoming boom in RV resorts. Plus, lots of RV news, RV tips, your questions, traveling technology advice and an off the beaten path report. Click the player below to Listen Now or scroll down through the show note details. When you see a time code hyperlink, you can click it to jump directly to that segment of the podcast. [spp-player] Show Notes for Episode #195 June 6, 2018 of Roadtreking - The RV Podcast WHAT MIKE AND JENNIFER ARE UP TO THIS WEEK [spp-timestamp time="2:26"] We’re busy packing. Had to stop to do this podcast but we take off soon for the first long trip of the summer, heading to Glacier National Park in Northern Montana. We have a Roadtreking gathering there staring in less than two weeks and this time, instead of rushing, we are going to take our time. That’s right. We are viewing to follow our 330 Rule – which means quit by 330 PM in the afternoon or stop after driving no more than 330 miles. Now if you are a regular follower, you know Mike and I haven’t been real successful at following our own rule. But this time, we are going to promise. And to be accountable to that, we are going to post a video every day that we’re traveling on our RV Lifestyle Channel on YouTube. I should point out that we won’t be traveling every day. We have a business meeting we have to do and we have a couple of stories we’ll be shooting on the way out so because unexpected things always arise, we don’t plan to be driving every single day. But, every day that we are on the road, we will do our best to keep that 330 Rule. That, of course, depends on us leaving. Even though we travel in a Class B campervan, it takes forever to get it packed and stocked….and Mike doesn’t help with all his camera and video gear and drone taking up all our storage space! If you wonder just what we do to get ready on a long trip like this, check out our RV Lifestyle Channel on YouTube as we will have a video coming out Thursday June 7 first thing in the morning showing the various things we did to prepare for this trip. We are planning on making a gazillion videos on this trip. Oh yeah, that reminds me to announce that those videos include a brand new weekly Live Webcast that we are doing at 9 PM every Sunday night. We call is “Ask Us Anything” and we go live from wherever we are to talk about what’s happening in the RV world and to answer whatever questions you sent in. We did our first one this past Sunday and it was a ball. We had SO MANY questions.  I can’t wait to go live this coming Sunday. We’re not sure where we’ll be. Maybe the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Maybe somewhere in Northern Wisconsin or Minnesota. We should point out that if we are in a really remote location and we do not have a robust Internet connection, we won’t be able to go live. But most times we are just fine and we anticipate being able to do the program most weeks….  By the way… Bo will NOT be accompanying us on this trip. We have a lot of work to do there and on the way out and National Parks are not very dog friendly…so he will be staying with our daughter and her family in Michigan. Ok. That’s what we are up to. Meantime, here is the RV News you need to know about this week: Utah national park considering limiting daily visitors after record numbers visit Memorial Day

At its essence, this episode is about the experience of traveling west on Amtrak passenger trains in the United States. Since about 2008, I've personally traveled west on many an Amtrak train, so many that I have difficulty counting the exact number. Some trips were to visit friends, some were to visit girlfriends at the time (one who, at that time, was living in Northern Montana), some were because I was living out west for graduate school. But, each trip, the traveling experience seemed so palpably meaningful. And with each subsequent trip, I became more aware and reflective of each experience: how it relates to the experiences of my fellow travelers, the workers on the trains, but also how the experience was in important ways a deeply affective, emotive, embodied experience. So, with a recent traveling experience, I recorded a portion of my journey, as the train traveled through the American Midwest at night. I then created original music (written, played, and recorded by myself) to help convey, complicate, and expand the expression of the soundscape and its meaning. In this episode, I present this weaving of soundscape and music, and narrate my experience of train travel. It's a digital audio story of my train experiences.

A historic treaty to bring back bison (buffalo) was signed in 2014 in Montana by First Nations and tribes on both sides of the Canada-United States border. The Northern Tribes Buffalo Treaty — the first of its kind in 150 years — is meant to work to establish inter-tribal alliances for the restoration of bison on reserves or co-managed lands within the U.S. and Canada. Bison may bring about better ecological balance by allowing plants, animals and birds that disappeared with the demise of the bison in the mid to late 1800s. The first wild bison to roam Banff National Park in more than a century was reintroduces last year and will eventually graze the eastern slopes of that park. The speaker will address the many issues related to reintroduction of bison to this area. He will also explain the cultural importance that bison plays in the lives of First Nations Peoples. Speaker: Dr. Leroy Little Bear Renowned as an international scholar, speaker and leader, Dr. Leroy Little Bear is a pioneer in the field of Indigenous education and the winner of the 2017 University of Lethbridge Speaker Research Award. A mentor and instructor of students and an esteemed advisor on Aboriginal matters at the local, provincial, national and international level, Little Bear was a founder of the University's Department of Native American Studies, one of the first such departments in Canada. Little Bear breathed life into Indigenous scholarship by developing ethical, respectful and rigorous Aboriginal programs. His educational service did not end with his formal retirement, but rather transitioned into the role of mentor and advisor, guiding Indigenous programming and establishing a legacy of inclusivity. Little Bear now serves as the Special Assistant to the President and has played an integral role in breaking boundaries between traditional Indigenous and western sciences, and his writings have influenced legal and policy realms. He and his wife, Amethyst First Rider, were major proponents in bringing about the signing of the Buffalo Treaty between American and First Nations. He has received the key to the City of Lethbridge, an Urban Aboriginal Lifetime Achievement Award, an honorary Doctor of Arts and Science from the U of L, an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Northern British Columbia and was recently inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence. Moderator: Cody Spencer Date: Thursday, February 8, 2018 Time: Noon - 1:30 pm Location: Country Kitchen Catering (below The Keg restaurant) 1715 Mayor Magrath Drive South Cost: $11 lunch (hearty soup & bun, desert & coffee/tea) or $2 coffee/tea. RSVP not required

A historic treaty to bring back bison (buffalo) was signed in 2014 in Montana by First Nations and tribes on both sides of the Canada-United States border. The Northern Tribes Buffalo Treaty — the first of its kind in 150 years — is meant to work to establish inter-tribal alliances for the restoration of bison on reserves or co-managed lands within the U.S. and Canada. Bison may bring about better ecological balance by allowing plants, animals and birds that disappeared with the demise of the bison in the mid to late 1800s. The first wild bison to roam Banff National Park in more than a century was reintroduces last year and will eventually graze the eastern slopes of that park. The speaker will address the many issues related to reintroduction of bison to this area. He will also explain the cultural importance that bison plays in the lives of First Nations Peoples. Speaker: Dr. Leroy Little Bear Renowned as an international scholar, speaker and leader, Dr. Leroy Little Bear is a pioneer in the field of Indigenous education and the winner of the 2017 University of Lethbridge Speaker Research Award. A mentor and instructor of students and an esteemed advisor on Aboriginal matters at the local, provincial, national and international level, Little Bear was a founder of the University's Department of Native American Studies, one of the first such departments in Canada. Little Bear breathed life into Indigenous scholarship by developing ethical, respectful and rigorous Aboriginal programs. His educational service did not end with his formal retirement, but rather transitioned into the role of mentor and advisor, guiding Indigenous programming and establishing a legacy of inclusivity. Little Bear now serves as the Special Assistant to the President and has played an integral role in breaking boundaries between traditional Indigenous and western sciences, and his writings have influenced legal and policy realms. He and his wife, Amethyst First Rider, were major proponents in bringing about the signing of the Buffalo Treaty between American and First Nations. He has received the key to the City of Lethbridge, an Urban Aboriginal Lifetime Achievement Award, an honorary Doctor of Arts and Science from the U of L, an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Northern British Columbia and was recently inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence. Moderator: Cody Spencer Date: Thursday, February 8, 2018 Time: Noon - 1:30 pm Location: Country Kitchen Catering (below The Keg restaurant) 1715 Mayor Magrath Drive South Cost: $11 lunch (hearty soup & bun, desert & coffee/tea) or $2 coffee/tea. RSVP not required

A historic treaty to bring back bison (buffalo) was signed in 2014 in Montana by First Nations and tribes on both sides of the Canada-United States border. The Northern Tribes Buffalo Treaty — the first of its kind in 150 years — is meant to work to establish inter-tribal alliances for the restoration of bison on reserves or co-managed lands within the U.S. and Canada. Bison may bring about better ecological balance by allowing plants, animals and birds that disappeared with the demise of the bison in the mid to late 1800s. The first wild bison to roam Banff National Park in more than a century was reintroduces last year and will eventually graze the eastern slopes of that park. The speaker will address the many issues related to reintroduction of bison to this area. He will also explain the cultural importance that bison plays in the lives of First Nations Peoples. Speaker: Dr. Leroy Little Bear Renowned as an international scholar, speaker and leader, Dr. Leroy Little Bear is a pioneer in the field of Indigenous education and the winner of the 2017 University of Lethbridge Speaker Research Award. A mentor and instructor of students and an esteemed advisor on Aboriginal matters at the local, provincial, national and international level, Little Bear was a founder of the University's Department of Native American Studies, one of the first such departments in Canada. Little Bear breathed life into Indigenous scholarship by developing ethical, respectful and rigorous Aboriginal programs. His educational service did not end with his formal retirement, but rather transitioned into the role of mentor and advisor, guiding Indigenous programming and establishing a legacy of inclusivity. Little Bear now serves as the Special Assistant to the President and has played an integral role in breaking boundaries between traditional Indigenous and western sciences, and his writings have influenced legal and policy realms. He and his wife, Amethyst First Rider, were major proponents in bringing about the signing of the Buffalo Treaty between American and First Nations. He has received the key to the City of Lethbridge, an Urban Aboriginal Lifetime Achievement Award, an honorary Doctor of Arts and Science from the U of L, an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Northern British Columbia and was recently inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence. Moderator: Cody Spencer Date: Thursday, February 8, 2018 Time: Noon - 1:30 pm Location: Country Kitchen Catering (below The Keg restaurant) 1715 Mayor Magrath Drive South Cost: $11 lunch (hearty soup & bun, desert & coffee/tea) or $2 coffee/tea. RSVP not required

A historic treaty to bring back bison (buffalo) was signed in 2014 in Montana by First Nations and tribes on both sides of the Canada-United States border. The Northern Tribes Buffalo Treaty — the first of its kind in 150 years — is meant to work to establish inter-tribal alliances for the restoration of bison on reserves or co-managed lands within the U.S. and Canada. Bison may bring about better ecological balance by allowing plants, animals and birds that disappeared with the demise of the bison in the mid to late 1800s. The first wild bison to roam Banff National Park in more than a century was reintroduces last year and will eventually graze the eastern slopes of that park. The speaker will address the many issues related to reintroduction of bison to this area. He will also explain the cultural importance that bison plays in the lives of First Nations Peoples. Speaker: Dr. Leroy Little Bear Renowned as an international scholar, speaker and leader, Dr. Leroy Little Bear is a pioneer in the field of Indigenous education and the winner of the 2017 University of Lethbridge Speaker Research Award. A mentor and instructor of students and an esteemed advisor on Aboriginal matters at the local, provincial, national and international level, Little Bear was a founder of the University's Department of Native American Studies, one of the first such departments in Canada. Little Bear breathed life into Indigenous scholarship by developing ethical, respectful and rigorous Aboriginal programs. His educational service did not end with his formal retirement, but rather transitioned into the role of mentor and advisor, guiding Indigenous programming and establishing a legacy of inclusivity. Little Bear now serves as the Special Assistant to the President and has played an integral role in breaking boundaries between traditional Indigenous and western sciences, and his writings have influenced legal and policy realms. He and his wife, Amethyst First Rider, were major proponents in bringing about the signing of the Buffalo Treaty between American and First Nations. He has received the key to the City of Lethbridge, an Urban Aboriginal Lifetime Achievement Award, an honorary Doctor of Arts and Science from the U of L, an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Northern British Columbia and was recently inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence. Moderator: Cody Spencer Date: Thursday, February 8, 2018 Time: Noon - 1:30 pm Location: Country Kitchen Catering (below The Keg restaurant) 1715 Mayor Magrath Drive South Cost: $11 lunch (hearty soup & bun, desert & coffee/tea) or $2 coffee/tea. RSVP not required

Lethbridge faces many challenges in regards to its airport. At one time, when governments owned and operated airports, and regulated air service levels, a small city could count on being served under all circumstances. In the deregulated world however, lower prices tend to prevail. This also means carriers must pay very close attention to their revenues and expenses while the same hold true for the airports they fly into. Much has been made of the availability of cheap flights from Great Falls and the frequency of flights from Calgary. Previous attempts to attract new services to Lethbridge have not been successful. The response has been numerous expensive studies commissioned by the Airports Committee which, by and large, have been gathering dust as unimplemented recommendations. Arguably, Lethbridge County, who manages the airport, and the City are unable or reluctant to invest the funds necessary before needed improvements can be made to Lethbridge Airport. Funding, is only one of the barriers to making improvements. Most other airports across Southern Alberta and Northern Montana have a proper governance model. The Canadian Airports Council, the main body to which many of Lethbridge Airport's peers belong, advocates for an Independent Airport Authority to oversee operations. The speaker will argue that if the airport becomes a self-funded entity with powers to borrow, set fees and planning for improvements, Lethbridge Airport will be liberated to focus on the needs of people and airport operation rather than power struggles among local governmental entities. Speaker: Dale Leier Dale Leier is a Lethbridge-born business person with interests in a range of projects, including sustainable cleaning products, shellfish hatchery, renewable energy and regional business development. In addition to a successful career as an Air Traffic Controller, Dale is a Domino's Pizza Franchisee award winner, an Investor's Group Financial Planner, mobile app developer and inventor. For the sheer experience, he ran as the Libertarian Party candidate in the 2008 Federal Election for Saanich-Gulf Islands. Moderator: Austin Fennell Date: Thursday, February 9, 2017 Time: Noon - 1:30 PM (30 minutes each for presentation, lunch and Q & A) Location: Country Kitchen Catering (Lower level of The Keg) 1715 Mayor Magrath Dr. S Cost: $12.00 (includes lunch) or $2.00 (includes coffee/tea) Visit the SACPA website: http://www.sacpa.ca

Lethbridge faces many challenges in regards to its airport. At one time, when governments owned and operated airports, and regulated air service levels, a small city could count on being served under all circumstances. In the deregulated world however, lower prices tend to prevail. This also means carriers must pay very close attention to their revenues and expenses while the same hold true for the airports they fly into. Much has been made of the availability of cheap flights from Great Falls and the frequency of flights from Calgary. Previous attempts to attract new services to Lethbridge have not been successful. The response has been numerous expensive studies commissioned by the Airports Committee which, by and large, have been gathering dust as unimplemented recommendations. Arguably, Lethbridge County, who manages the airport, and the City are unable or reluctant to invest the funds necessary before needed improvements can be made to Lethbridge Airport. Funding, is only one of the barriers to making improvements. Most other airports across Southern Alberta and Northern Montana have a proper governance model. The Canadian Airports Council, the main body to which many of Lethbridge Airport's peers belong, advocates for an Independent Airport Authority to oversee operations. The speaker will argue that if the airport becomes a self-funded entity with powers to borrow, set fees and planning for improvements, Lethbridge Airport will be liberated to focus on the needs of people and airport operation rather than power struggles among local governmental entities. Speaker: Dale Leier Dale Leier is a Lethbridge-born business person with interests in a range of projects, including sustainable cleaning products, shellfish hatchery, renewable energy and regional business development. In addition to a successful career as an Air Traffic Controller, Dale is a Domino's Pizza Franchisee award winner, an Investor's Group Financial Planner, mobile app developer and inventor. For the sheer experience, he ran as the Libertarian Party candidate in the 2008 Federal Election for Saanich-Gulf Islands. Moderator: Austin Fennell Date: Thursday, February 9, 2017 Time: Noon - 1:30 PM (30 minutes each for presentation, lunch and Q & A) Location: Country Kitchen Catering (Lower level of The Keg) 1715 Mayor Magrath Dr. S Cost: $12.00 (includes lunch) or $2.00 (includes coffee/tea) Visit the SACPA website: http://www.sacpa.ca

  Blackfeet Tribal Council Faces Whether to Sacrifice the Beauty and Health of their Montana Lands for the promised Moneys of Oil Companies Who Wish to Hydraulically Fracture – Destroy – the Blackfeet Reservations in Montana. Dr. Carol Francis Radio Talk Show interviews a prime peaceful activist Woman, Pauline Matt, who on August 5-12, 2012 will Walk a Peaceful Protest Against Hydraulic Fracturing the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana. Fracking, Hydraulic Fracturing, kills the land, animals, plants by poisoning the waters. Every country must face that raping any land or fresh water source for money is wrong. Yet money buys blindness. Money buys mindless cooperation. Can money buy Blackfeet Tribal Councils?  Will temporary poverty or the promise of money allow permanent damage of the land, Dr. Carol Francis asks? Will the Blackfeet Tribal Council allow their amazingly rich soil be destroyed by Fracking? The Blackfeet Reservation in Northern Montana is filled with medicinal plants, endangered animals, and fresh underground rivers. The loss of that land would be tradgic.  Pauline Matt 's next clear statement to the USA will occur as she walks to Chief Mountain. She will walk from August 5-12, 2012 with these alert and aware citizens. Join her by donating to Glacier Two Medicine Alliance, P.O. Box 181 East Glacier, MT 59434 or call 406-338-3016. You can vote your support on Facebook at Chief Mountain Water Walk or Blackfeet Women Against Fracking. You can contact Pauline Matt als at realpeopleh@gmail.com.