Eye on the Environment

'Eye on the Environment' is a weekly column appearing in the Seeley-Swan Pathfinder. Northwest Connections, the Blackfoot Challenge, Clearwater Resources Council, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and Swan Ecosystem Center contribute articles to this column on a rotational basis.

Eye On The Invertebrates
By ANDREA STEPHENS, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, January 12, 2012 (PDF)

Honey Bees: Cranking Up The Heat
By ANDREA STEPHENS, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, December 8, 2011 (PDF)

Figuring Out Fall: Do-It-Yourself Astronomy
By FIONA BROWN and DAVE MORRIS, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, November 3, 2011 (PDF)

Nature's Empty Grocery Shelves
By STEVE LAMAR, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, September 29, 2011 (PDF)

Dragonfly Addiction
By ANDREA STEPHENS, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, August 25, 2011 (PDF)

Come Hell or High Water
By SEAN DONOVAN with ANDREA STEPHENS, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, July 21, 2011 (PDF)

'Wildlife In The West' Through The Eyes of Students
By ANDREA STEPHENS, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, June 16, 2011 (PDF)

An Update On The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program
By MO BOOKWALTER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, May 12, 2011 (PDF)

Frühjahrsmüdigkeit Happens
By DAVE MORRIS, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, April 7, 2011 (PDF)

Field Notes: A Tough Timberline Tree, The Alpine Larch
By STEVE LAMAR, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, March 3, 2011 (PDF)

Winter, Firewood, and an Old Lodgepole Pine Tree
By STEVE LAMAR, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, January 27, 2011 (PDF)

'Citizen Science' In The Swan Valley
By ANDREA STEPHENS, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, December 23, 2010 (PDF)

Westslope Cutthroat Trout: A Source of Pride
By ANDREA STEPHENS, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, November 18, 2010 (PDF)

Mushroom Bumper Crop
By ADAM LIEBERG, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, October 14, 2010 (PDF)

Wildlands Volunteers
By ANDREA STEPHENS, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, September 9, 2010 (PDF)

Home Sweet Homestays
By ALI PONS, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, August 5, 2010 (PDF)

Birch Culture
By ERIKA EDGLEY, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, July 1, 2010 (PDF)

Emerging Markets in Biomass: Local Opportunities
By MO BOOKWALTER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, May 27, 2010 (PDF)

Stimulus Dollars at Work in Our Community
By MELANIE PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, April 22, 2010 (PDF)

Rocky Mountain Juniper
By STEVE LAMAR, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, March 18, 2010 (PDF)

Local Impacts From The Smurfit Stone Container Closure. Can Biomass Utilization Play A Role In Our Region?
By MO BOOKWALTER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, February 11, 2010 (PDF)

Cash for Carbon: A New Market for Rural Landowners
By MELANIE PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, January 7, 2010 (PDF)

Resources Consulted
The companion piece to MELANE PARKER'S January 7, 2010, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder article (PDF)

Autumn Colors Fall Short
By ADAM LIEBERG, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, December 3, 2009 (PDF)

Students Get Opportunity to "Dig-Into" the Valley
By CORI STANEK, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, October 15, 2009 (PDF)

In My Place
By CORI STANEK, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, September 24, 2009 (PDF)

Collar And Foll'er: Trapping Wolves In The Swan
By ADAM LIEBERG, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, August 20, 2009 (PDF)

Map Making in the Modern World: From Ptolemy to GIS
By TIM SHIER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, August 6, 2009 (PDF)
ArcGIS 9.3 Sample Maps

Mountain Hemlock
By STEVE LAMAR, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, June 11, 2009 (PDF)

Ecology Lessons from Grizzlies
By TOM PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, May 7, 2009 (PDF)

No Child Left Inside
By MELANIE PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, March 19, 2009 (PDF)

Charasmatic Minifauna
By ADAM LIEBERG, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, February 26, 2009 (PDF)

Impacts to the Deer Population
By TOM PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, December 18, 2008 (PDF)

Logjams Create Key Habitats For Fish
By ANDREA STEPHENS, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, November 13, 2008 (PDF)

Whitebark Pine: Burns, Birds and Bears
By ZACH WALLACE, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, October 9, 2008 (PDF)

"This I Believe"
By CORI STANEK, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, September 4, 2008 (PDF)

A Season for Awareness
By CORI STANEK, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, July 31, 2008 (PDF)

A Summer of Local
By CORI STANEK, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, June 26, 2008 (PDF)

Names Upon the Landscape
By STEVE LAMAR, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, May 22, 2008 (PDF)

Fish Hawks And Food For Thought
By ADAM LIEBERG, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, April 17, 2008 (PDF)

Policy Brief: Land Conversion - the Fate of our Rural Places
By MO HARTMANN, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, March 13, 2008 (PDF)

Fuels Reduction Project: A Lot of Little Things Done Well
By TOM PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, February 7, 2008 (PDF)

Winter Track Surveys Along Highway 83
By ADAM LIEBERG, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, January 3, 2008 (PDF)

A Memorable Elk Hunt
By STEVE LAMAR, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, November 29, 2007 (PDF)

Northern Bog Lemmings: "The Least Known Rodent"
By ANDREA STEPHENS, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, October 25, 2007 (PDF)

Sharing September Snow
By STEVE LAMAR, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, September 6, 2007 (PDF)

The Freedom of Wild Places
By JESSICA LUND, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, August 16, 2007 (PDF)

If A Tree Falls On Forest Service Land, Does Anybody Listen?
By MELANIE PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, July 12, 2007 (PDF)

Words Of The Past... Inspiration For The Present
By MO HARTMANN, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, June 7, 2007 (PDF)

Decades of Aprils
By STEVE LAMAR, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, May 3, 2007 (PDF)

The Last Snow
By MELANIE PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, March 22,  2007 (PDF)

Swan Valley Wolf Update
By JESSICA LUND, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, February 22, 2007 (PDF)

Survival Food of the Forest
By MELANIE PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, January 18,  2007 (PDF)

Beyond the Browse Line
By TOM PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, December 14, 2006 (PDF)

Grizzly Bear DNA Project Update
By MELANIE PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, November 9, 2006 (PDF)

A Look at the Open Space Bond
By BRENNA HYVONEN for the Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, November 2, 2006 (PDF)

Collaboration in Ovando Goes Electric
By BRICE CROZIER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, October 5, 2006 (PDF)

Forest Restoration Projects Moving Forward
By MELANIE PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, September 7, 2006 (PDF)

Summer Field Note... Montana's Wild Huckleberry
By MO HARTMANN, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, August 10, 2006 (PDF)

Forest Stewardship Workshop
By MELANIE PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, July 27, 2006 (PDF)

Squirrel Tales
By TOM PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, July 13, 2006 (PDF)

Changing Habitats and Human Activity Threaten Bears
By TOM PARKER, Seeley-Swan Pathfinder, June 15, 2006 (PDF)

Other Articles

People will benefit from Plum Creek deal, too
By MELANIE PARKER for the Missoulian, July 9, 2008 (PDF)

Logs not lodges:  Manage forests for long term
By MELANIE PARKER for the Missoulian, January 14, 2007 (PDF)

Nature Watch: The First Snow
By MELANIE PARKER for Your National Forests Magazine, 
Fall/Winter 2006, a publication of the National Forest Foundation (PDF)

Books

In My Place: Voices of People and Land
By CORI STANEK, Northwest Connections' Landscape & Livelihood alumnus and intern

Cori Stanek has compiled and published "In My Place: Voices of People & Land," a nearly 300 page book inspired by the National Public Radio series This I Believe and her time spent as a Landscape & Livelihood student and intern at Northwest Connections.She was driven by the belief that everyone, no matter the motivating factor, has a relationship to land and that each relationship is valuable to understanding where we find ourselves as modern land citizens.Under this premise, In My Place blossomed as a community writing project featuring essays from more than 90 authors – many of which hail from Swan Valley residents or alumni of L&L themselves.Contributors include students, teachers, loggers, writers, mothers, fathers, business owners, government employees, non-profit organizers, farmers, and scientists, just to name a few.

Copies of “In My Place: Voices of People and Land” are available for $15 a piece, shipping included. For more information, or to place an order, contact Cori Stanek at InMyPlace.project@gmail.com.

Swan Valley Place Names: A Mosaic of History, Stories and Local Lore
By STEVE LAMAR, Northwest Connections' staff and president of the Upper Swan Valley Historical Society

This comprehensive guide to place names in the Swan River Valley of Western Montana covers more than 500 geologic and historic features including lakes, streams, and mountain peaks in the Mission Mountains Wilderness, the Swan Valley and the spectacular Swan Front.

Inside Swan Valley Place Names you will discover the mapmakers, mountain men, foresters, and early settlers who christened idyllic landmarks such as “Angels Bathing Pool” and “Daughter of the Sun Mountain” during the past one hundred and fifty years. The text and images weave a colorful mosaic of early survey maps, field notes, letters, oral histories and photographs.The reader will gain a broader understanding of this valley’s landscape and culture.

For additional information, contact Steve Lamar at lamar@blackfoot.net