Give Back This Holiday Season With HRDC

Josi Hinds  |   Mon. Dec. 1st, 2025

The season of giving is here, and what better way to give back than to offer a few hours of your time to a program in need. There are organizations across the Gallatin Valley that offer opportunities to volunteer, but if you’re looking for a…

Relax Christmas Is Twelve Days Long

Topher Sedlak  |   Mon. Dec. 1st, 2025

You know the feeling: You’ve worked for something so hard, or anticipated something so much that, when it finally comes, it’s a bit of a letdown. An anticlimax. Or, an event starts so early and drags on so long, even something good, that…

Real Places Unreal Adventures

Bryan Schaeffer  |   Mon. Dec. 1st, 2025

Winter arrives quietly in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.A thin shimmer of frost along the riverbanks. A dusting on the peaks. A hint that something vast and ancient is stirring. Beneath our feet lies a super volcano—shaping one of the most…

Trees of December

Steve McGann  |   Mon. Dec. 1st, 2025

Trees are a big part of this season of the year. Christmas trees, Yule logs, branches and greens for wreaths, all get attention. Seems like a good time to write about them and all the other trees, the ones still out in the forest. As a kid, I am not…