By Griffen Smith | Native News, University of Montana School of Journalism

Some on the Blackfeet Reservation are already feeling the impacts of climate change. Residents have recently lived through out-of-season fires, drought, merciless winters and extreme wind events. With residents concerned for more hardships living off the land, the environmental office hopes snow fences could be the spark needed to retain its wetlands.

By Sabrina Fehring | Native News, University of Montana School of Journalism

Seeing the climate changes and how they are entangled with traditions and culture, many tribal members are devastated. Traditions and landscapes are changing. Their elders had to go through adapting in the past. Now the Séliš-Qĺispé have to adapt once more to human-caused events.

What if we stand together this time
Toward a different shared ground

Just a whisper comes on the gentling air

What if?

By Florian Reber | Tales of Change

It is in rural areas like these where I expected to meet more climate skeptics than anywhere else on my trip. To my surprise, my actual experience was quite the opposite.

In Missoula, I taught children about wildfires, unrelenting and devastating, lifegiving and restorative.

If only smoke could be restorative for me.

Megan Thornton is a passionate climate advocate and mother from Montana. She played an integral role in establishing the garden at Russell Elementary School, where her kids attend. We asked her about her experience getting this project off the ground, along with what inspires and motivates her.