Chris Marshall
![Courthouse drama and floods in a rural Montana town](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2019/08/Rosebud-Courthouse.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Courthouse drama and floods in a rural Montana town
An hour and a half east of Billings and two hours from the North Dakota border, the area around Forsyth is rural even by Montana standards.
![Dispatches from the road: Three miles of Glacier National Park](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2018/12/Glacier-CanoeSmoke.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Dispatches from the road: Three miles of Glacier National Park
The shore of Lake McDonald was our first stop. At 10 miles long, more than a mile wide and 472 feet at its deepest, the normally picturesque glacial lake is a great spot for trout fishing, boating and picture-taking.
![Dispatches from the road: An apocalyptic Yellowstone](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2018/04/Yellowstone-Lunch-and-Buffalo-Herd-6.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Dispatches from the road: An apocalyptic Yellowstone
In my early morning fog, and the dark, I hadn’t noticed how smoke-choked the air was. Though fires raged in parts of Montana to the north, the air quality on a given day depended on the direction of the wind. Today it blew south.