By Crissie McMullan | Reflections West

I always came back from the wilderness to a warm bed, a warm meal, and sometimes even someone who was glad I’d come home… A safe and healthy home environment: we humans need them both to live, and to feel alive.

This episode of the Life in the Land series features Caryn Miske, Executive Director of Clearwater Resource Council, who shares about what holistic, community-led work around climate, equity, and environmental quality can look like, the realistic challenges to starting and sustaining a local nonprofit, and as pressures on small towns and wild places increase, why the efforts are always worth it.

By Alyssa Tompkins | Montana Kaimin

In this episode of the Kaimin Cast, reporter Alyssa Tompkins speaks to drag goddex Elani Borhegyi about how they came to be a dragtivist — using their platform to combine their passion for the environment with drag performance.

[Gerald Wagner, director of the Blackfeet Environmental Office] said the time to address the impacts of climate change is now. He wants to make sure the Blackfeet Nation is informed and prepared for the risks it will face.

This episode of the Life in the Land series features Rebecca Ramsey, Executive Director of Swan Valley Connections (SVC), who shares about the critical nature of local involvement & leadership in landscape decision making, and the successes and challenges of working with varied interests. Rebecca also shares about the Elk Creek Conservation Area, which SVC co-owns with the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes.

In this StoryCorps interview, Tassia Tkatschenko (39) and her mother, Nancy Dunne Byington (66), share a conversation about their family, the communities they have lived in, and their careers in naturopathic medicine and psychiatric nursing. They also discuss how capitalism is impacting the environment and the hope that they have for social change.