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Home Ground
Tuesdays at 6:30pm
hosted by Brian Kahn
 Artemis
Common Ground produces this award-winning half-hour, weekly public affairs
radio series, distributed via the internet and broadcast on public radio
throughout Montana and northern Wyoming. Home Ground's mission
is to stimulate dialogue about the changes and choices affecting our future,
and we pursue that goal through substantive and thought-provoking discussion
of western economic, religious, cultural, social and environmental issues
as well as our place in the larger world. While examining areas of conflict,
we emphasize shared values – the often-overlooked “common
ground” of diverse community interests. Guests and their views are
always treated with respect. Our goal is for listeners to develop appreciation
of differing viewpoints and to encourage them to fulfill their responsibility
as informed citizens in a democracy. Home Ground presents issues in ways
that are interesting and meaningful to a broad audience.
Home
Ground is hosted by Brian Kahn,
whose diverse background includes work as collegiate boxing coach, attorney,
President of the California Fish and Game Commission, Director of
the Montana Nature Conservancy, author, journalist and documentary
filmmaker. In 2009, Brian was a recipient of the Montana Governor's
Award for the Humanities.
Home Ground was named in 2002 by the Montana Broadcasters
Association as the state’s Outstanding Non-Commercial Radio Program.
In 2003, Home Ground received the Small Business Administration’s
Journalist of the Year Award. In 2006, Home Ground won
the OWAA National Excellence in Programming Award.
Upcoming Programs
June 18
The specialization of modern life results in deeper, but narrower knowledge. But globalization demands understanding of broad issues and questions that cross national and cultural boundaries. Can higher education help? The University of Montana’s Global Leadership Initiative thinks so.
Recent Programs
Todd Wilkinson
 Todd Wilkinson (WMA)
 Todd Wilkinson (MP3)
Todd Wilkinson's now book, The Last Stand, goes behind the scenes and reveals how and why Ted Turner blazed his own trail, his way.
Sid Armstrong
Sid Armstrong (WMA)
Sid Armstrong (MP3)
Long active in Democratic politics, Sid Armstrong works equally well across political lines. How does she do it? In the answer to that lies the essence of our Montana community.
Jon Tester
Jon Tester (WMA)
Jon Tester (MP3)
U.S. Senator Jon Tester discusses the values learned growing up on the farm, his serious study of music, the keys to being an effective legislator, and the impact of money in American politics.
Hometown Helena
Hometown Helena (WMA)
Hometown Helena (MP3)
A community is people with common interests living in the same area. But to know they have common interests, people need to communicate with each other. That still happens during a weekly get-together called Hometown Helena, and for more than twenty-five years, two friends have made it happen.
Duane Ankney
Duane Ankney (WMA)
Duane Ankney (MP3)
Political parties have been with us since 1791 and partisan politics are intense in Montana. Duane Ankney knows—he's Chairman of the House Appropriation Committee.
Guillermo Garcia Frias
Guillermo Garcia Frias (WMA)
Guillermo Garcia Frias (MP3)
Guillermo Garcia Frias is the leading figure in nature conservation in Cuba. But there's more to his story: At 28, as a peasant who could not read or write, he risked his life to save some young revolutionaries--and changed the course of history.
Home Ground Audio Archive
YPR maintains an archive of recent Home Ground
programs. They are available as on-demand, streaming audio using the Windows
Media format, and as MP3 files encoded at 64kbps.
Margaret Scoles
Margaret Scoles (WMA)
Margaret Scoles (MP3)
We all think we know what food is. But according to Margaret Scoles, we really don’t. As one of the world’s leading trainers for inspectors of organic farms, she ought to know.
Broadwater Health Center
Broadwater Health Center (WMA)
Broadwater Health Center (MP3)
Rural hospitals are appropriately held to high standards of service and care, and Townsend’s Broadwater Health Center was ordered closed last July by the Montana Department of Health. Faced with significant management and financial hurdles, it looked as though the care facility might never re-open. Then the community spoke.
Joanne Berghold
Joanne Berghold (WMA)
Joanne Berghold (MP3)
For more than 15 years, Joanne Berghold has traveled Montana’s back roads, photographing small town rodeos and open landscapes and deserted buildings. And she’s got two books to prove it.
Martin Palmer
Martin Palmer (WMA)
Martin Palmer (MP3)
To some, the need to preserve our natural world is based on a simple scientific fact--we humans need it to survive. Martin Palmer, environmental advisor to Prince Phillip, has a commitment driven by religious faith, which he feels is essential to success.
Trappers
Trappers (WMA)
Trappers (MP3)
We have trapped animals for meat and fur since our earliest origins. But human culture changes with time, and over the past 50 years, calls to restrict or ban trapping have grown.
John Cech
John Cech (WMA)
John Cech (MP3)
Mention two-year colleges and we tend to think of vocational training. But something significant is happening with Montana’s vo-tech schools. John Cech knows what’s changing, and why.
Winnett School
Winnett School (WMA)
Winnett School (MP3)
Nationwide, one in three students fails to graduate high school. Since 1996, in the public school at Winnett, Montana, only two kids have failed to do so. They do some things differently in Winnett, and given the results, maybe we should pay attention.
Dan Bucks
Dan Bucks (WMA)
Dan Bucks (MP3)
We all hate taxes. Yet without them we’d have no public schools, roads, social security, Medicare, police, public lands, and yes, even sewers! Since we need them, who should pay? Dan Bucks, recently retired head of Montana’s Department of Revenue, has strong views.
Cuban 5
Cuban 5 (WMA)
Cuban 5 (MP3)
The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution has a sacred guarantee: a fair trial by an impartial jury. A strong case is being made that did not happen in the case of the Cuban 5, convicted fourteen years ago of conspiracy to commit espionage. Four of the five are still in prison. The case has major implications, possibly holding the key to a sea-change in US-Cuba relations.
Shahid Haque-Hausrath
Shahid Haque-Hausrath (WMA)
Shahid Haque-Hausrath (MP3)
During the 2012 election, illegal immigration was a red-hot topic. But we didn’t learn much about who illegal immigrants are, why they come to America, or the pros and cons of allowing them to stay. Shahid Haque-Hausrath provides some context.
Deep Springs
Deep Springs (WMA)
Deep Springs (MP3)
The campus is a cattle ranch in the high desert. The 26 students milk cows by hand, cut alfalfa, kill and cook the animals they eat, AND carry a full academic load. This is not your normal college. It’s Deep Springs.
Judy Tureck
Judy Tureck (WMA)
Judy Tureck (MP3)
The voices that speak for farmers and ranchers have long been male. But the living reality of family agriculture tells a different story. Judy Tureck of Coffee Creek, Montana, knows.
Bill McConnell
Bill McConnell (WMA)
Bill McConnell (MP3)
For tens of thousands of years, our ancestors made their own bows, arrow, and arrow heads for hunting. Because they had to stalk close to the wild animal, they understood their beauty and their power. Bill McConnell still does all that.
Charlotte Caldwell
Charlotte Caldwell (WMA)
Charlotte Caldwell (MP3)
We think of the 1-room school house as ancient history. But roughly 60 still function in Montana. And the fact is, we have important things to learn from the way they educate children.
Andrew McGregor
Andrew McGregor (WMA)
Andrew McGregor (MP3)
What key ingredients motivate school kids to learn? Andrew McGregor teaches at Harrow, England’s elite boarding school, founded in 1572.
Joe Sample
Joe Sample (WMA)
Joe Sample (MP3)
Joe Sample pioneered TV broadcasting in Montana and spent three decades in the industry. It’s a tough business. Political advertising helps pay the bottom line, but in a world of relentless attack ads, should industry draw the line? Joe Sample says yes.
Wildfires
Wildfires (WMA)
Wildfires (MP3)
Webster's Dictionary defines community as people with common interests living in a particular area. That word took on special meaning in July when wildfire raged over 390 square miles, threatening people, dwellings, and a way of life.
Cyrus Habib
Cyrus Habib (WMA)
Cyrus Habib (MP3)
You got cancer as a child, causing blindness at age 8. You did well in public schools, went to college, became a Rhodes Scholar. At Yale Law School, you edited the law review. Now you’re a successful lawyer, and want to go into politics. Why? Meet Cyrus Habib.
Chas Cartwright
Chas Cartwright (WMA)
Chas Cartwright (MP3)
Americans have a romance with our national parks. But managing them and their millions of visitors is real work. Chas Cartwright knows. He’s Superintendent of Glacier National Park.
Tom Daubert
Tom Daubert (WMA)
Tom Daubert (MP3)
Medical marijuana, approved by voter initiative in 2004, got turned upside down by the federal raids and arrests of 2011. Tom Daubert, co-founder of MT Cannabis and well-known communications specialist, was looking at a long prison sentence.
David Quammen
David Quammen (WMA)
David Quammen (MP3)
AIDS, hantavirus, Ebola, avian flu—all have something in common: their underlying viruses all moved from animals to humans, with lethal results. Is something else on the way? In his new book, Spillover, noted author David Quammen says yes, it’s just a matter of time.
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor (WMA)
Sandra Day O'Connor (MP3)
She was the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court and she's the recipient of the Medal of Freedom, our nation's highest civilian award. In retirement she's working to insure that our children learn how our democracy works. Meet Sandra Day O'Connor.
George Black
George Black (WMA)
George Black (MP3)
The creation of Yellowstone National Park was a visionary act. But George Black's book Empire of Shadows shows that, like almost all human endeavors, it resulted from the complex and contradictory nature of us human beings.
Hanson Family
Hanson Family (WMA)
Hanson Family (MP3)
When your family has lived for generations on the land, what do you do when wind-driven wildfire threatens the ranch? And what do you do when it's over and has burned your hay, your cattle's forage, and all your buildings except your house?
Todd O'Hair
Todd O'Hair (WMA)
Todd O'Hair (MP3)
We’ve used coal for 5,000 years, and today it generates half of the world’s electricity. But burning it produces toxic smoke, and much of the carbon dioxide that scientists say is warming the planet. Should we get rid of coal, use it as is, or try to clean it up? Here what Todd O’Hair of Cloud Peak Energy has to say.
Initiative 166
Initiative 166 (WMA)
Initiative 166 (MP3)
On November’s ballot, Montanans are asked: Should corporations be treated as people, enjoying the Constitutional rights humans enjoy? And specifically, should they be allowed to contribute to election campaigns? Hear opposing views about Initiative 166.
Laurie McKinnon
Laurie McKinnon (WMA)
Laurie McKinnon (MP3)
Last week Ed Sheehy explained why he wants to be elected to Montana's Supreme Court. Now it's Judge Laurie McKinnon's turn.
Ed Sheehy
Ed Sheehy (WMA)
Ed Sheehy (MP3)
A seat on the Montana Supreme Court is among the most powerful in our state's government. Ed Sheehy wants the job.
David Centner
David Centner (WMA)
David Centner (MP3)
More than 50 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare and Social Security and both face serious financial problems. David Centner, AARP's head of legislative policy, has some ideas.
Dennis Taylor
Dennis Taylor (WMA)
Dennis Taylor (MP3)
People who devote their lives to “public service” in the public sector don’t get much credit these days. From the Marine Corps in Vietnam to long service in city manager positions, Dennis Taylor knows what public service means.
Ben Steele
Ben Steele (WMA)
Ben Steele (MP3)
When we remember wars, we tend to focus on victories, not defeats. Ben Steele knows the other side of the story. He survived the infamous Bataan Death March—and more—in the terrible early days of Word War II.
Bison
Bison (WMA)
Bison (MP3)
Rifles, railroads, and markets nearly wiped out the American bison. A coalition of hunters and conservationists wants to bring them back to the plains of Montana. Not everyone agrees.
Roberta Zenker
Roberta Zenker (WMA)
Roberta Zenker (MP3)
Roberta Zenker was born a boy, grew into manhood, became a lawyer, a husband, and a father of two. However, she secretly always wanted to be a woman. After considering suicide, she decided to become a woman—and did.
Laszlo Family
Laszlo Family (WMA)
Laszlo Family (MP3)
Ranchers tend to pride themselves on independence. So why would the Laszlo family decide to team up with conservation interests—and yes, the federal government—to restore wetlands on their Madison Valley ranch?
Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation
Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation (WMA)
Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation (MP3)
Charitable organizations usually review applications, make choices, and send money. It's a bit different with the Dennis and Phyllis Washinton Foundation—they get involved.
Jim Robbins
Jim Robbins (WMA)
Jim Robbins (MP3)
Trees are all around us, but almost never do we stop to think how important they are to us—or what it would be like without them. Science writer Jim Robbins has spent a lot of time thinking about precisely that.
Dr. Tia Nelson
Dr. Tia Nelson (WMA)
Dr. Tia Nelson (MP3)
Since childhood, she wanted be a veterinarian. And after becoming a renowned horse-shoer, she went back to college and got her vet’s degree. Her approach combines western, eastern and traditional methods – and communication with the animal. Meet Dr. Tia Nelson.
Bakken Boom, Part 3
Bakken Boom, Part 3 (WMA)
Bakken Boom, Part 3 (MP3)
The thousands of oil workers streaming into North Dakota are being followed by organized crime. Stunningly and tragically, that includes sex trafficking with children.
Bakken Boom, Part 2
Bakken Boom, Part 2 (WMA)
Bakken Boom, Part 2 (MP3)
Oil development in the Bakken Shale has turned some North Dakota communities' quiet way of life upside down. Two county sheriffs have been dealing with the consequences.
Bakken Boom, Part 1
Bakken Boom, Part 1 (WMA)
Bakken Boom, Part 1 (MP3)
The Bakken Oil Shale has exploded in an economic boom in North Dakota, and is headed our way. But part of the boom is a surge in serious crime. anything be done about it?
DOJ Sexual Assault Program
DOJ Sexual Assault Program (WMA)
DOJ Sexual Assault Program (MP3)
Sexual assaults on Montana's Indian reservations are two to three times the rate in the rest of Montana. The U.S. Department of Justice has announced a new program to try to do something about it.
Nicasio Vina
Nicasio Vina (WMA)
Nicasio Vina (MP3)
Cuba's national academy of sciences is older than the on in the U.S. Nicasio Vina is a member and an internationally recognized conservation biologist.
Chase Hibbard
Chase Hibbard (WMA)
Chase Hibbard (MP3)
The ranch has been in the family for well over a hundred years. What lessons have been learned along the way? Hear what fourth generation rancher Chase Hibbard has to say.
Health Insurance Co-Op
Health Insurance Co-Op (WMA)
Health Insurance Co-Op (MP3)
"Obamacare" does not include either a Medicare-style single payer system or a public insurance option. But it DOES allow health insurance co-ops—owned and run by its members. And Montana is about to get one.
Dr. Hugo Ponce
Dr. Hugo Ponce (WMA)
Dr. Hugo Ponce (MP3)
How do you stimulate the economy, increase productivity and accountability of business, try to insure everyone has a job, and maintain some form of economic justice? Dr. Hugo Ponce discusses economic change in Cuba.
Colt Summit Project
Colt Summit Project (WMA)
Colt Summit Project (MP3)
It's fairly common for the U.S. Forest Service to be taken to court by environmental groups. It isn't common for other conservation groups to take the forest service's side—but that's what's happening with the Colt Summit Project.
MLK Center
MLK Center (WMA)
MLK Center (MP3)
Martin Luther King lived and died fighting for the rights of the poor and oppressed of the United States. So what is the Martin Luther King Cultural Center doing in Havana, Cuba?
Elvira Roncalli
Elvira Roncalli (WMA)
Elvira Roncalli (MP3)
Classic philosophers extol reason, and have argued that the human body and emotions reflect weakness. Philosophy professor Elvira Roncalli says there is another way to see that.
Jose Gerhartz
Jose Gerhartz (WMA)
Jose Gerhartz (MP3)
In the rural West, we're used to wrestling with tensions between economic development and conservation. It's no different in Cuba. Meet Jose Gerhartz, the World Wildlife Fund's man in Havana.
We The People
We The People (WMA)
We The People (MP3)
Almost all of us say we support the Constitution, but few have read and discussed its provisions. "We the People," to be held April 20-21 at Carroll College, will give us that chance.
Julian Lampert
Julian Lampert (WMA)
Julian Lampert (MP3)
What are the ingredients that make up a virtuoso classical musician? Genetics? Nuturing special talent? You be the judge: meet composer Julian Lampert on the next Home Ground.
Little Big Horn
Little Big Horn (WMA)
Little Big Horn (MP3)
At the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we think of Custer and his men fighting heroically to the last man. It likely didn’t happen that way.
Dry Cotton Wood Creek Ranch
Dry Cotton Wood Creek Ranch (WMA)
Dry Cotton Wood Creek Ranch (MP3)
Combine the world’s largest mining restoration site, ranching, and conservation, and you get the Clark Fork Coalition’s Dry Cotton Wood Creek Ranch.
Edward Louis Henry
Edward Louis Henry (WMA)
Edward Louis Henry (MP3)
In the American myth, Mountain Men were loners, fighting Indians and the elements on their own. According to author Edward Louis Henry, that isn't quite the way it was.
Fred Haefele
Fred Haefele (WMA)
Fred Haefele (MP3)
Writing is considered an intellectual pursuit, removed from the dirt and sweat and honed physicality of the blue collar world. Fred Haefele disagrees. For thirty years he’s lived in both worlds.
Mike Cotter
Mike Cotter (WMA)
Mike Cotter (MP3)
U.S. Attorney Mike Cotter discusses the responsibilities of his office, which include prosecuting cases in Indian country.
Debra Magpie Earling
Debra Magpie Earling (WMA)
Debra Magpie Earling (MP3)
Leo Tolstoy said that to write well, one needed “to look closer, to weigh one’s words, to tell the exact truth.” Debra Magpie Earling’s writing meets that unforgiving test.
Bob Kiesling
Bob Kiesling (WMA)
Bob Kiesling (MP3)
We tend to think of conservation as primarily involving government action. Yet the world of private conservation has exploded in the past 30 years. Bob Kiesling is one of its pioneers.
Holter Museum
Holter Museum (WMA)
Holter Museum (MP3)
It’s a major surprise that Helena’s Holter Museum is exhibiting Asian bronzes dating back 3,000 years. And there is an additional surprise—the art itself shows the strong similarity between the ancient world of Asian grasslands and today’s American West.
Scott McMillion
Scott McMillion (WMA)
Scott McMillion (MP3)
Human attitudes toward Grizzly Bears often divide between love and hate. The truth is they are what they are, as are we. And when our species cross paths at close range, sometimes things go wrong. Scott McMillion has written a book about that, and what we can learn from it.
Americans Elect
Americans Elect (WMA)
Americans Elect (MP3)
For those tired of the two party political system, the people at Americans Elect have launched a web-based system for Americans to select candidates for President and Vice President—and anyone can be a delegate.
High School Drop-Out Rate
High School Drop-Out Rate (WMA)
High School Drop-Out Rate (MP3)
Nationally, one-third of high school students drop out. Montana's Office of Public Instruction is teaming up with local schools, businesses, and communities to change that.
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps (WMA)
AmeriCorps (MP3)
AmeriCorps employs 1,300 Montanans doing community service work. The program has been slated to either be cut significantly or eliminated altogether from the federal budget.
Seeley Lake School Lunch
Seeley Lake School Lunch (WMA)
Seeley Lake School Lunch (MP3)
Historically, school lunch programs have not rated well in terms of a balanced diet. Faced with an obesity epidemic, some schools are chaning that. One is Seeley Lake Elementary, where they're doing something quite special.
Visions Service Adventures
Visions Service Adventures (WMA)
Visions Service Adventures (MP3)
How would you like your child to experience another culture, another country, in-depth? Visions Service Adventures gives young people the opportunity to work in foreign lands with local people.
George Cole
George Cole (WMA)
George Cole (MP3)
George Cole: You know him as a public radio host. Now you can know him as Laurel native, full-time journalist, high-level political aide, and political commentator.
Gilbert Caldwell
Gilbert Caldwell (WMA)
Gilbert Caldwell (MP3)
America’s African-American community has not been resounding in its support of gay rights, or its comparison with the Civil Rights movement. Reverend Gilbert Caldwell is takes a different view.
Julia Altemus
Julia Altemus (WMA)
Julia Altemus (MP3)
Commercial logging has been controversial for decades, and Julia Altemus, the new executive director of the Montana Wood Products Association, has seen the battle from many angles.
Hank Burgess
Hank Burgess (WMA)
Hank Burgess (MP3)
Not many of us see a connection between William Shakespeare and the art of boxing. Hank Burgess does. For years he taught both at Carroll College.
Dan Todd
Dan Todd (WMA)
Dan Todd (MP3)
Given Montana's recent experience with medical marijuana, the issue seems complex and confusing. But not to Dan Todd, a former Republican legislator.
Hugo Tureck
Hugo Tureck (WMA)
Hugo Tureck (MP3)
When we think of farmers, we don’t tend to think of sociologists. Meet Hugo Tureck of Coffee Creek—he’s both.
Katie Davison
Katie Davison (WMA)
Katie Davison (MP3)
In cities across the United States, Americans are making a statement by occupying places of economic power. But who are they? Katie Davison, 32 year old filmmaker, is one.
Steven J. Eagle
Steven J. Eagle (WMA)
Steven J. Eagle (MP3)
Law professor at George Mason Steven J. Eagle has written extensively on property rights, takings, and land use planning.
A Home Ground Special:
Whose Hospitals?
Whose Hospitals? (WMA)
Whose Hospitals? (MP3)
Our hospitals are not-for-profits who get tax breaks in exchange for public service. They are also big business in competition with others. To whom are they really accountable and how much should the public be involved? A special one-hour Home Ground Community Forum, co-sponsored by Carroll College.
Americans for Campaign Reform
Americans for Campaign Reform (WMA)
Americans for Campaign Reform (MP3)
$3.2 billion was spent during the 2010 election cycle, with the vast majority coming from less than one-quarter of one percent of the American people. Americans for Campaign Reform wants to change that.
Martin Holt
Martin Holt (WMA)
Martin Holt (MP3)
Martin Holt knew he was dying when he came on Home Ground last December. His last months set a standard in wisdom and humanity.
Greg Lemon
Greg Lemon (WMA)
Greg Lemon (MP3)
Why would young journalist Greg Lemon take a job at Montana's oldest weekly paper in an age when local newspapers are getting hammered by the web?
Beetle
Beetle (WMA)
Beetle (MP3)
An epidemic has engulfed Western forests: a tiny beetle that kills trees. Why is this happening and what can be done about it?
Crazy U
Crazy U (WMA)
Crazy U (MP3)
It's not clear which is harder: graduating from college or completing all the paperwork needed to see if thet'll let you in. Crazy U is a new book about one family's experience running that gauntlet.
Rhodes Scholars
Rhodes Scholars (WMA)
Rhodes Scholars (MP3)
We've all heard of Rhodes Scholars: exceptionally bright young people who spend a year at Oxford. But who are they, and what are they like?
Patricia Nell Warren
Patricia Nell Warren (WMA)
Patricia Nell Warren (MP3)
Patricia Nell Warren is the granddaughter of Conrad Kohrs, of the famous Grant Kohrs Ranch. She was raised on the ranch and grew up to be an award-winning journalist and writer.
No Labels
No Labels (WMA)
No Labels (MP3)
No Labels is a new organization that wants serious discussion of our nation's problems, without political labels.
Eugene Linden
Eugene Linden (WMA)
Eugene Linden (MP3)
Eugene Linden is a veteran Time magazine reporter. He has insight into what happens when consumer culture collides with traditional peoples.
Kimber Emmons
Kimber Emmons (WMA)
Kimber Emmons (MP3)
Two years ago, Home Ground talked with Kimber Emmons about her six-year-old duaghter Kenna's life-threatening illness and the need for a bone marrow donor. Since then, the family has walked a tough road.
Buttercup Market
Buttercup Market (WMA)
Buttercup Market (MP3)
There is more to the Buttercup Market and Café than meets the eye.
Wetlands Project
Wetlands Project (WMA)
Wetlands Project (MP3)
A family of long-time Madison Valley ranchers is working with conservation groups and the government on a collaborative wetlands project.
Bob Rowe
Bob Rowe (WMA)
Bob Rowe (MP3)
Delivering natural gas and electricity is a complicated business, regulated by Montana’s Public Service Commission. Bob Rowe is President and CEO of Northwestern Energy—and he’s sat on both sides of the table.
Bozeman Youth Initiative
Bozeman Youth Initiative (WMA)
Bozeman Youth Initiative (MP3)
The Bozeman Youth Initiative mixes a school bus converted into a mobile greenhouse with college and high school students mentoring elementary school kids on where food comes from and how to grow it.
Clayton Kirk
Clayton Kirk (WMA)
Clayton Kirk (MP3)
Clayton Kirk was home schooled on a Montana ranch, then attended public high school. At age 21, after three years of college, he looks back on the pluses and minuses of his experience.
Blue Cross / Blue Shield
Blue Cross / Blue Shield (WMA)
Blue Cross / Blue Shield (MP3)
Blue Cross / Blue Shield is Montana's largest health insurance provider, handling coverage for more than 300,000 customers. In an effort to control rising health care costs, they’ve launched a three-pronged initiative involving administrative cost reduction, doctor and hospital payments, and the health of everyday Montanans.
Students & Climate Change
Students & Climate Change (WMA)
Students & Climate Change (MP3)
Getting through the University of Montana is tough enough without taking on extra work. So why are students getting involved in the fight against climate change—and what are they doing about it?
Carmine Mowbray
Carmine Mowbray (WMA)
Carmine Mowbray (MP3)
Carmine Mowbray was long interested in politics, but too busy with family and business to run for office. This January, however, she was appointed to the Montana Senate—and got a baptism by fire.
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Union Hotel (WMA)
Grand Union Hotel (MP3)
Fort Benton’s Grand Union Hotel was built in the 1880s, during the glory days of Missouri River steamboats. Fifteen years ago, the Gagnon family decided to restore its splendor.
Dr. Tom Trebon
Dr. Tom Trebon (WMA)
Dr. Tom Trebon (MP3)
Dr. Tom Trebon has announced his upcoming retirement as President of Carroll College. What has he learned along the way?
Health Care
Health Care (WMA)
Health Care (MP3)
Break your leg in the US and it’s not usually a big deal, but in many countries it can mean economic disaster. Meet two doctors who are doing something about that.
Frog Exhibition
Frog Exhibition (WMA)
Frog Exhibition (MP3)
There is just something special about frogs! And when kids meet frogs at the Museum of the Rockies' frog exhibition, good things happen.
Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart (WMA)
Wal-Mart (MP3)
Wal-Mart employs two million people and is the world’s largest grocer. So their new initiative to support sustainably grown, local food comes as quite a surprise.
Pat Williams
Pat Williams (WMA)
Pat Williams (MP3)
Pat Williams represented Montana in Congress for 18 years. He’s been home for 15. What’s he been up to?
Sage Grouse
Sage Grouse (WMA)
Sage Grouse (MP3)
Sage grouse, once numbering in the millions, now number around 200,000. But a new collaborative conservation effort between the federal government and ranchers is achieving results.
Buffalo Bill Plains Indian Museum
Buffalo Bill Plains Indian Museum (WMA)
Buffalo Bill Plains Indian Museum (MP3)
The Buffalo Bill Plains Indian Museum in Cody is renowned for its dynamic exhibits, which show Indian culture as much more than a unique part of our past.
Alan Simpson
Alan Simpson (WMA)
Alan Simpson (MP3)
Former Wyoming Senator Al Simpson co-chaired the national bipartisan panel on long-term deficit reduction.
Innocence Project
Innocence Project (WMA)
Innocence Project (MP3)
The Constitution has protections for those accused of a crime and none of us wants think innocent people are sent to prison. Unfortunately, they are.
National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI)
NAMI (WMA)
NAMI (MP3)
For decades we’ve shied away from facing mental illness head-on. But today, Montanans are taking the lead in confronting the issue.
Mountain States Transmission Intertie
MSTI (WMA)
MSTI (MP3)
We all use electricity, but when it comes to how we get it from its generation point to the end user, there is often a fight.
Community Gardens
Community Gardens (WMA)
Community Gardens (MP3)
An innovative network of community gardens in Missoula helps to maintain a sense of community in our fast-paced world.
Russ Miller
Russ Miller (WMA)
Russ Miller (MP3)
Russ Miller is responsible for assuring the economic sustainability, environmental sensitivity, and conservation of native species on the two million acres of Ted Turner's 15 ranches.
Sheila Devins
Sheila Devins (WMA)
Sheila Devins (MP3)
Who would believe that 3-5 year-olds could set up their own museum? Sheila Devins is doing amazing things at the Liz Claiborne pre-school in Seeley Lake, Montana.
Denise Juneau
Denise Juneau (WMA)
Denise Juneau (MP3)
Our nation’s schools are facing real problems, but Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau says Montana’s schools are working well.
Timber Industry Roundtable
Timber Industry Roundtable (WMA)
Timber Industry Roundtable (MP3)
A coalition of timber industry, conservation, and public agency interests formed a roundtable for an ongoing discussion of how to stabilize the timber industry in the wake of Smurfit Stone's closure.
Montana Wildlife Federation
MT Wildlife Federation (WMA)
MT Wildlife Federation (MP3)
The Montana Wildlife Federation, working with a landowner, has developed a youth-based elk hunting program.
John Green
John Green (WMA)
John Green (MP3)
Career chemist John Green also has a passion for fine art and discusses his collection.
Karla Gray
Karla Gray (WMA)
Karla Gray (MP3)
Retired Montana Supreme Court Chief Justice Karla Gray discusses her referendum for accountability of judges.
Leslie Weldon
Leslie Weldon (WMA)
Leslie Weldon (MP3)
Forest Service Region One Superintendent Leslie Weldon
Lance Craighead
Lance Craighead (WMA)
Lance Craighead (MP3)
Lance Craighead of Craighead Institute, an environmental research group in Bozeman.
Bud Moore
Bud Moore (WMA)
Bud Moore (MP3)
A 2005 interview with the late Bud Moore, a forest steward and pioneer of "ecosystem management."
John Ries
John Ries (WMA)
John Ries (MP3)
What did Christ have to say about our obligation to the poor? Carroll College's John Ries is our guest.
National Institute on Money in Politics
National Institute on Money in Politics (WMA)
National Institute on Money in Politics (MP3)
The National Institute on Money in Politics, based in Helena, discusses the influence money has on our state politics.
Gregory Hinton
Gregory Hinton (WMA)
Gregory Hinton (MP3)
Gay filmmaker Gregory Hinton discusses the rural homosexual in Out West.
Martin Holt
Martin Holt (WMA)
Martin Holt (MP3)
Noted videographer Martin Holt discusses his varied artistic career and his terminal illness.
Corky Brittan
Corky Brittan (WMA)
Corky Brittan (MP3)
Professor Corky Brittan discusses animal intelligence and rights
Bill Milton
Bill Milton (WMA)
Bill Milton (MP3)
Bill Milton, Zen rancher of the Mussellshell
Doug Chadwick
Doug Chadwick (WMA)
Doug Chadwick (MP3)
Doug Chadwick has the enviable job of studying wildlife in America's parks and wildlands.
Jim Leach
Jim Leach (WMA)
Jim Leach (MP3)
National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Jim Leach
Dr. Waded Cruzado
Dr. Waded Cruzado (WMA)
Dr. Waded Cruzado (MP3)
President of Montana State University Dr. Waded Cruzado
Senator Jon Tester (D-MT)
Sen.
Tester (WMA)
Sen.
Tester (MP3)
US Senator Jon Tester discusses his Forest Jobs and Recreation
bill.
Carol Williams
Carol
Williams (WMA)
Carol
Williams (MP3)
Montana State Senator Carol Williams discusses the Montana Democratic
platform.
Bowen Greenwood
Bowen
Greenwood (WMA)
Bowen
Greenwood (MP3)
Bowen Greenwood, Executive Director of the Montana Republican
party, discusses the party platform.
Beth Baker
Beth
Baker (WMA)
Beth
Baker (MP3)
Beth Baker is a candidate for Justice of the Montana
Supreme Court.
Nels Swandal
Nels
Swandal (WMA)
Nels
Swandal (MP3)
Nels Swandal is a candidate for Justice of the Montana
Supreme Court.
American Prairie Foundation
American
Prairie Foundation (WMA)
American
Prairie Foundation (MP3)
The American
Prairie Foundation faces a backlash in its mission to preserve Montana's
great prairie for bison, birds, and other native species.
Peter Koch
Peter
Koch (WMA)
Peter
Koch (MP3)
Danish immigrant Peter Koch arrived on a steamboat up the Missouri.
Hear how Montana changed him--and how he changed Montana.
Sec. of Education Arnie Duncan
Sec.
Duncan (WMA)
Sec.
Duncan (MP3)
Secretary of Education Arnie Duncan outlines his ambitious plan
to improve all schools, especially the under-achievers.
Pat Soden
Pat
Soden (WMA)
Pat
Soden (MP3)
Pat Soden of the University of Washington Press discusses
the new world of book publishing.
Yellowstone Art Museum
Yellowstone
Art Museum (WMA)
Yellowstone
Art Museum (MP3)
The Yellowstone Art
Museum in Billings opens its permanent collection to the public and uses
an innovative approach to engage people of all ages.
Joseph Miller
Joseph
Miller (WMA)
Joseph
Miller (MP3)
The Wicked Wine of Democracy by Joseph Miller
David Levinthal
David
Levinthal (WMA)
David
Levinthal (MP3)
David Levinthal of the Center
for Responsive Politics in Washington, D.C.
Tom Vilsack
Tom
Vilsack (WMA)
Tom
Vilsack (MP3)
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack
C.C. Filson Company
C.C.
Filson Company (WMA)
C.C.
Filson Company (MP3)
The C.C. Filson Company still builds clothing in their Seattle factory in spite
of the high degree of globalization in the textile industry.
Pallid Sturgeon
Pallid
Sturgeon (WMA)
Pallid
Sturgeon (MP3)
The pallid sturgeon swam with dinosaurs. In the blink of an eye human impact
could wipe out the nearly 70-million year old species. Montana's Department of
Fish, Wildlife and Parks is trying to do something about it.
Frances McCue
Francis
McCue (WMA)
Francis
McCue (MP3)
Seattle author Frances McCue discusses her book on Montana poet Richard
Hugo's writing and the power of place.
Larry Schweiger
Larry
Schweiger (WMA)
Larry
Schweiger (MP3)
National Wildlife Federation president Larry Schweiger discusses
the progress of the 75-year old organization.
James McPherson
James
McPherson (WMA)
James
McPherson (MP3)
Civil War scholar and Pulitzer prize winning author James McPherson
Tom Hougen
Tom
Hougen (WMA)
Tom
Hougen (MP3)
Montana Stockgrowers President Tom Hougen
Steve Bullock
Steve
Bullock (WMA)
Steve
Bullock (MP3)
Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock
George Dennison
George
Dennison (WMA)
George
Dennison (MP3)
George Dennison is stepping down after twenty years
as President of the University
of Montana and more than forty years in higher education.
Mark Rey
Mark
Rey (WMA)
Mark
Rey (MP3)
Mark Rey, Undersecretary of Agriculture in the Bush
Administration, discusses his views about forest stewardship.
PG & E
PG
& E (WMA)
PG
& E (MP3)
Why would a major utility company advocate strong government action to combat
climate change? Pacific Gas and Electric Company is doing just that.
Dereck Hogan
Dereck
Hogan (WMA)
Dereck
Hogan (MP3)
Dereck Hogan is the Senior State Department Advisor
on Afghanistan. He discusses the civilian aspects of the Afghan war.
Tom Tidwell
Tom
Tidwell (WMA)
Tom
Tidwell (MP3)
U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell explains the agency's
new focus on landscape restoration.
Workers' Compensation
Workers'
Compensation (WMA)
Workers'
Compensation (MP3)
Montana's workers' compensation system is 95 years old. How well does it work
today?
Kenny Martin
Kenny
Martin (WMA)
Kenny
Martin (MP3)
Kenny Martin is a banker in Lincoln, MT. He explains
why Montana banks are surviving America's big-bank crisis.
Paul Roos
Paul
Roos (WMA)
Paul
Roos (MP3)
Paul Roos is a former teacher, an outfitter, and a long-time
conservationist. He explains the for-profit concept he calls "Wetlands
Mitigation Banking."
Scott Cruse
Scott
Cruse (WMA)
Scott
Cruse (MP3)
FBI Special Agent Scott Cruse discusses the tough job of preventing
attacks, investigating crime, and protecting Constitutional rights in a post-9/11
world.
Maile Meloy
Maile
Meloy (WMA)
Maile
Meloy (MP3)
Author Maile Meloy discusses the art and craft of writing well.
Lorin Granger
Lorin
Granger (WMA)
Lorin
Granger (MP3)
University of Montana graduate Lorin Granger spent part of last
year as an intern at the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
NkWsum
NkWsum (WMA)
NkWsum (MP3)
Salish language school NkWsum strives
to preserve native cultures, values, and identity with its language immersion
program.
Morely Family
Morely
Family (WMA)
Morely
Family (MP3)
The Morley family of Swan Lake makes red cedar canoes by hand.
Kit Fischer
Kit
Fischer (WMA)
Kit
Fischer (MP3)
Montanan Kit Fischer wasn't satisfied with his post-college
life as a ski bum--so he joined the Peace Corps and worked for two years in Africa.
Jack Stanford
Jack
Stanford (WMA)
Jack
Stanford (MP3)
Jack Stanford is the Director of the Flathead
Lake Biological Station, which is renowned for its research into
human-caused changes to the natural environment.
Woody Biomass
Woody
Biomass (WMA)
Woody
Biomass (MP3)
Is Montana's woody biomass a blessing or a curse?
Jeffrey Meyers
Jeffrey
Meyers (WMA)
Jeffrey
Meyers (MP3)
Hemingway scholar Jeffrey Meyers discusses the variances between
the author's personal life and his writing.
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