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The King

The notorious No.6 died this past February, and this has made for a quiet autumn rutting season nearly concluded among the elk (C. Canadensis nelsoni) on Yellowstone's northern range. The late bull has been described in the local media as the ...

From BILL CROKE, American Spectator,  12 Nov 2009

The Old Horse Home

The West has been home to wild horses since the days of the conquistadores. For instance, the 1680 Pueblo rebellion that expelled the Spaniards from New Mexico for twelve years scattered large herds into the hands of the tribes of the Southern ...

From BILL CROKE, American Spectator,  9 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Bureau of Land Management,  Congressional Budget Office,  John Huston,  U.S. House of Representatives,  Ken Salazar

America's Second-Best Idea

(This article is taken from our October issue, just out.) Ken Burns must be running out of good ideas. The documentary filmmaker has famously done the Civil War, Lewis and Clark, baseball, jazz, Mark Twain, the Statue of Liberty, and the Brooklyn ...

From BILL CROKE, American Spectator,  28 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Ken Burns,  John Muir,  Sierra Club,  U.S. Congress,  PBS

Taking On the Trash

I recently took a hike up Perreau Creek Road near Salmon, Idaho. Its upper reaches narrow to a dusty two-track, which is frequented not only by hikers but by the ATV (All Terrain Vehicle) crowd roaring up and down on those four-wheelers. Perreau ...

From BILL CROKE, American Spectator,  24 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Bill Maher,  Perez Hilton,  McDonald's,  Burger King

Sawtooth Days

Happy Jack Feder's (HJF) antediluvian Toyota Corolla rolled into Salmon unannounced on a recent Friday evening, its trunk and backseat crammed with camping equipment. He likes to surprise people, even as his wife Kathy often poses the pertinent ...

From BILL CROKE, American Spectator,  17 Sep 2009

The Grand Tour

According to the Bozeman Chronicle, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will visit that Montana city on August 14, where the president will hold a "healthcare reform townhall meeting" in an airport hangar at Gallatin Field. Law ...

From BILL CROKE, American Spectator,  10 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Michelle Obama,  White House

The Bard Under the Big Sky

Montana Shakespeare in the Parks (MSIP) made its annual stop in Salmon, Idaho, last week with an outdoor production of The Tempest, complete with its small but ornate Elizabethan stage set. The weather was fair: one of our golden summer evenings ...

From BILL CROKE, American Spectator,  5 Aug 2009

We've Won, Please Help!

Thanks to the recession and the arrival in Washington of a perceived green-friendly administration, the coffers of nonprofit environmental organizations are shrinking. For instance, the much-maligned Bush Administration's support of energy ...

From BILL CROKE, American Spectator,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Sierra Club,  George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Senate

Twilight of the Gods

While I'm certainly not the baseball fan I was when I was a kid, I did catch a few innings of a Colorado Rockies (the team that competes with the Seattle Mariners for Idaho's major league allegiance) game on TV at a friend's house the other night. ...

From BILL CROKE, American Spectator,  13 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Babe Ruth,  Ted Williams,  Lou Gehrig,  Mac Davis,  Joe DiMaggio

Don't Jump

The other day a 20-year-old man from Salt Lake City named Nicholas Mostert climbed over a railing on an observation platform and hurled himself into the swift, deep waters of the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park. According to ...

From BILL CROKE, American Spectator,  29 Jun 2009

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