Looking back over the last year, it’s clear that any hope that the 1/6/21 riot at the US Capitol would have resulted in positive change was never going to be realized. Both political parties who could have, and should have,…

This is a video that’s nominally about fly fishing and traumatic brain injury. But it’s so much more. It’s about hope. And as 2022 begins with all the same perils and terror that we saw in 2021, maybe a message…

Merry Christmas Buon Natale Feliz Navidad And for our friends across the globe, Счастливого Рождества Shèngdàn jié kuàilè کریسمس مبارک With all the tensions in the world,  we must hope all nations can find a way to live in peace…

UPDATED:  Late on 12/1/21, flows were restored through the Hebgen Lake Dam by Northwest Power.  It will be some time before fisheries biologists will be able to assess the amount of fish kill. Hebgen Lake Dam in southwest Montana is…

Many fly fishers spend too much time with the fly in the air and not in the water.  They spend their time false casting; on either forward or back casts, they wait until the line is almost completely unrolled and…

What a clever way of delivering this message:

In my last post, I wrote of the growth issues facing Greater Yellowstone and, specifically, Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley. These can always be topics fraught with a sense of self-interest, and mixed with elements of envy and resentment. Seeing…

Imagine planting Minneapolis on Bozeman, Montana. The image above depicts what the results. But that might be more than a fanciful proposition. With its current population growth, Bozeman and the Gallatin valley, population approximately 105,000, could reach a population of…

October 1st is the start of the new fiscal year for many companies as well as the US Government. This year, it is also Manufacturing Day – typically celebrated on the first Friday in October each year. Manufacturing Day was…

Last weekend, my high school graduating class celebrated its 50+1 anniversary. (Our actual 50th anniversary was 2020, but was postponed due to the Virus of Unknown Origin). Due to a conflict, I was unable to fly back to St. Louis…