FAIRMONT HOT SPRINGS, MT – Building coalitions and marketing cattle highlighted the discussion during the Young Farmer & Rancher Day June 13 at Fairmont Hot Springs Resort. The group heard speakers in the morning, followed…
By the early 1900s, it was estimated that Anaconda’s diverse population was closing in on 10,000 and included at least 100 to 125 African-American men, women and children.
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) There’s an old weather adage that’s been passed over cups of coffee and glasses of beer for nearly a century: “It’s not a drought ’til it breaks your heart.” Today, the hearts of thousands of Montanans have broken across the bare back of one of one of the worst droughts in Montana history: farmers trying to balance their books after a paltry harvest, stockmen paying too much to feed already skinny cattle, outfitters and fishermen prevented from landing a fish because the streams were either too warm or too dry, conservationists and recreationists of all types who watched Montana’s forests burn and its prairies shrivel.