Click here to join webinar. Equipped with forearm crutches, a portable chair, and the willingness to take a nap on the riverbed at a moment's notice, Amy Denton-Luke shares her journey of finding adaptations, acceptance, and an appreciation for exploring the outdoors with chronic illness and disabilities. Through her personal experiences and powerful photographs, Amy […]
Click here to join webinar. Event Description: The Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Dakotas is a fossil treasure trove from around 68 to 66 million years ago. Some dinosaur fossils from the Hell Creek Formation contain preserved biomolecules such as collagen, yet what preserves these biomolecules is still unknown. Dr. Yamamura studied these biomolecules […]
Click here to join the free webinar. Event Description: This program will dive into the rich history of the restricted--red light--districts in Missoula and Hamilton, spanning between the region's earliest red-light settlement in 1870 through the deaths of the original founders in the early 1940s. Throughout the talk, we will look at the influence these ostracized communities […]
Click here to join webinar. Hosted by Fire Adapted Montana: Learning Network. Join our panel discussion & webinar to learn about resources and funding available to your community to address the health impacts of wildfire smoke. This 2-hour webinar will provide you with information on the risks of wildfire smoke, best practices from other communities in […]
Click here to join virtual webinar. This program trains interested participants on how to interview, collect and archive oral histories in their communities. Candi Zion who is the author of “Winifred Oral History Project”, “In Between People: The Metis of Central Montana” and “Walkin’ Down the Middle: The Hi-Line Metis”, teaches program attendees to how […]
Click here to join webinar. Two rural Montana public health enthusiasts discuss findings from surveys and interviews with rural Montanans about the health, vitality, needs, strengths, and future of their communities. Presenter Bios: Margaret Mullins has worked with the Montana State Department of Public Health & Human Services (DPHHS) since 2021, most recently as the […]
Click here to join webinar. Who are all the newcomers? People moving into Montana communities is nothing new, but the recent jump has drawn our attention to this decades long trend. A recent study by MSU researchers shows who is moving to Montana communities, where they are coming from and why they are moving here. […]
MLN Virtual Programming Series presents: Bat Week 2024 To help us celebrate Bat Week 2024 Dan Bachen from the Montana Heritage Project will be speaking on the distribution and conservation of the state’s bat species, followed by a presentation from Eleanor Kamp, a local Girl Scout who has developed a blue print for bat safe […]
Métis storyteller and Little Shell Chippewa member Chris La Tray approaches the practice of poetry the same as he does the spiritual life of an Anishinaabe person: which is to say, if one lives an Anishinaabe life, with particular attention to the seven guiding principles of the Seven Grandfather teachings – Humility, Courage, Honesty, Wisdom, […]
Register for this virtual program by the MLN Virtual Network, and get ready to rock with Neil Maier, president of the Hellgate Mineral Society, as he joins us to dish out the dirt on rockhounding in Montana. From seasoned mineral masters to new rockhounding recruits, Neil will fascinate you with his adventures, complete with pictures […]
The Montana Constitution is unique in that it requires the citizens of the state be given the opportunity to vote on the option to study their form and structure of local government once every ten years. This process is known as the Montana Local Government Voter Review and the seventh review cycle will be held […]
In this presentation we'll hear about Montana's organic agriculture movement and pulse crop revolution from one of the farmers at the center of the story: David Oien, Founding Farmer of Timeless Seeds in Ulm. Moderating this conversation will be Missoula-born Liz Carlisle, author of the books Lentil Underground, Grain by Grain (with Bob Quinn), and […]
