Anne Millbrooke

Montana, Northwest

#Consulting historian active in #research, #writing, #editing, and #teaching. Also enjoy hiking, birding, and traveling. I have not seen the whole world — yet.

Articles

Troubled waters start here

2 days ago | dailymontanan.com | Anne Millbrooke

4:54 Commentary But a look at the track record of conservation shows the trends can be reversed The Missouri River is in trouble. From the headwaters at Three Forks downstream to Townsend, the Missouri River is designated as dewatered. That just hints at the size of the problem. Consider all the dewatered rivers flowing into the Missouri River: the Gallatin, Jefferson, Dearborn, Smith, Teton, Musselshell, and Yellowstone Rivers.
Troubled waters start here

2 days ago | yahoo.com | Anne Millbrooke

The Missouri River near Wolf Point, Montana. This is close to the spot where the Lewis and Clark party had to kill two grizzly bears and is the dividing line between Roosevelt and McCone counties. (Photo by Darrell Ehrlick for the Daily Montanan)The Missouri River is in trouble. From the headwaters at Three Forks downstream to Townsend, the Missouri River is designated as dewatered. That just hints at the size of the problem.
Guest Opinion: Troubled waters start here

2 days ago | milescitystar.com | Anne Millbrooke

The Missouri River is in trouble. From the headwaters at Three Forks downstream to Townsend, the Missouri River is designated as dewatered. That just hints at the size of the problem.
Troubled waters start here | Anne Millbrooke

1 week ago | billingsgazette.com | Anne Millbrooke

The Missouri River is in trouble. From the headwaters at Three Forks downstream to Townsend, the Missouri River is designated as dewatered. That just hints at the size of the problem. Consider all the dewatered rivers flowing into the Missouri River: the Gallatin, Jefferson, Dearborn, Smith, Teton, Musselshell, and Yellowstone Rivers. Consider too the dewatered rivers flowing into tributaries of the Missouri, like the Beaverhead, Big Hole, Boulder, Powder, and Tongue Rivers.
Troubled waters start here | Anne Millbrooke

1 week ago | helenair.com | Anne Millbrooke

The Missouri River is in trouble. From the headwaters at Three Forks downstream to Townsend, the Missouri River is designated as dewatered. That just hints at the size of the problem. Consider all the dewatered rivers flowing into the Missouri River: the Gallatin, Jefferson, Dearborn, Smith, Teton, Musselshell, and Yellowstone Rivers. Consider too the dewatered rivers flowing into tributaries of the Missouri, like the Beaverhead, Big Hole, Boulder, Powder, and Tongue Rivers.
Great aviaion books

4 weeks ago | aopa.org | Julie Summers Walker |Antoine de Saint-Exupery |A.J. Baime |Anne Millbrooke

Aviation novels and instructional books are a great part of your flying life—when you can’t be in the air, you can be in your reading chair living vicariously through the exploits of others or learning from their experiences and expertise. We asked our AOPA pilots for their favorite books, and many cited the same works. Ernest K. Gann’s Fate Is the Hunter was a top pick.
Anne Millbrooke: Many greedy hands are reaching for our public lands

1 month ago | bozemandailychronicle.com | Anne Millbrooke

The Bureau of Land Management administers more than 19 million mineral acres in Montana. Ninety-five percent of that public land is open for leasing. The MAGA Party and its corporate directors complain that this is not enough. I say, it’s too much. They say, log the national forests. I say, no, thank you. I like national forests for the protection of watersheds, which was the stated goal in the creation of the national forest system.
Protect our public lands

1 month ago | billingsgazette.com | Anne Millbrooke

The Bureau of Land Management administers over 19 million mineral acres in Montana. Ninety-five percent of that public land is open for leasing. The MAGA Party and its Corporate Directors complain that this is not enough. I say, It's too much. They say, log the national forests. I say, No, thank you. I like national forests for the protection of watersheds, which was the stated goal in the creation of the national forest system.
Anne Millbrooke: We are part of the web of life

Jul 9, 2024 | mtstandard.com | Anne Millbrooke

Biodiversity is simply the web of life that includes us. The state of Montana currently lists 226 species of concern, native animals that breed in the state and that are considered to be at risk. The state has also identified nearly a hundred species potentially at risk. That is evidence that the global biodiversity crisis is a Montana crisis as well.
We are a part of the web of life • Daily Montanan

Jul 6, 2024 | dailymontanan.com | Anne Millbrooke

America is one of the few countries that has not adopted a biodiversity species plan says columnist Anne Millbrooke.