Arts & Events

The U.S. Department of the Interior updated operations of the Glen Canyon Dam on Lake Powell in 2016, but conservationists say its management plan doesn’t consider the worsening effects of climate change and drought.

The 54th Kyiyo Pow Wow will be held at the Adams Center on April 21 and April 22.

It was located right in my backyard – where I grew up – yet, I'd neither heard of it nor the story associated with it. Following the devastating forest fires of 1910 (the "Big Burn"), mountaintop lookouts were established as an early warning system. One of them, in the Kootenai National Forest (my backyard, as I grew up in Libby), acquired a rather infamous name in the 1960s: Sex Peak Lookout.

The start of another Griz football season has columnist Jim Harmon harkening back to the 1898 roster, where inaugural UM coach Fred Smith also suited up as a halfback.

Jim Harmon writes, "Ah, if only I had known about Diocletian Lewis. I might today be a man with a full head of hair, rather than a shallow remnant of a male with hardly a single follicle in working order."

Jim Harmon writes, "The Caras family in Missoula dates back to the late 1800s – specifically, to two brothers named Sam and Jim."

Montana’s reliance on volunteer firefighters has a fascinating history. In 1878, the Virginia City newspaper, the Madisonian, praised the work of the town’s volunteers: “The fire brigade did heroic work in extinguishing the flames and preventing the spread” of a fire in a wood shed at William Thompson’s place."

Hundreds of trout, dozens of grouse, hail the size of eggs, watermelons stolen from an old man, naughty boys disrupting the singing school, a sure way to improve school boys’ spelling, a screeching brass band and a bit of Irish humor. Those were the August headlines in Missoula newspapers in 1874.

Only a few decades ago, before plastic bottles were a thing, there were public water fountains.