Distinctly Montana Magazine

D I S T I N C T L Y M O N T A N A M A G A Z I N E • S P R I N G 2 0 1 9 10 MISSOULA'S CLARK FORK PAGE 12 RANDALL KADISH'S writing and photography have appeared in many publications. He also wrote a historical novel, e Fly Caster Who Tried to Make Peace with the World. He enjoys fishing rivers in and near Missoula, as well as shooting skeet, playing pickleball, and hiking with his dog, Russell. TOPPING OUT: 5 ONE-DAY MOUNTAIN HIKES PAGE 16 GEORGE WUERTHNER is an ecologist and photographer/writer who has published 38 books including Montana's Magnificient Wilderness and Protecting the Wild: Parks and Wilderness Founda- tion for Conservation. He has visited more than 400 designated wilderness areas in the U.S. including all the designated wilderness areas in Montana. A botanist and biologist, he worked as backcountry ranger in Alaska's Gates of the Arctic National Park, as river ranger on several Wild and Scenic Rivers in Alaska, and wilderness guide in Alaska and Montana. ARCHERY ON HORSEBACK PAGE 24 MACKENZIE MARTIN is a freelance writer and editor based in Bozeman. She is passionate about medicine, technology, and well-being. When she's not behind a computer, you can find her dangling from a climbing rope or playing fetch with her Lola, her miniature Australian shepherd. MYSTERIES OF THE MOREL PAGE 30 LARRY EVANS grew up on a tree farm in Illinois, moved to Missoula at age 19, where he earned a degree in botany and microbiology before moving to work in Tokyo, Japan and later Seoul, Korea. After six years he returned to Montana to write and teach mycology. In 2005, the curator of the Bolivian Na- tional Herbarium invited Larry to survey and inventory the fungi of Madidi World Biosphere Preserve; he has visited there for the past 14 years. MONTANA'S SECRET CATS: BOBCAT AND LYNX PAGE 36 A lifelong westerner, JOSH METTEN is a Senior Naturalist and photographer for Jackson Hole EcoTour Adventures. In his free time he enjoys exploring our wild public lands while backpack- ing, hunting, mountain biking, floating, skiing, or birding. EVEN THE MOUNTAINS PAGE 53 Raised in small towns in the West, MAXIM LOSKUTOFF is the author of Come West and See (Norton, 2018) and the forthcoming novel Spirits. His stories and essays have appeared in numerous periodicals, including e New York Times, e Chicago Tribune, and Ploughshares. He lives in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana. ROUND-UP OF ASIAN INDIAN RESTAURANTS PAGE 55 ANGELA JAMISON is a Montana native raising the next generation in beautiful Bozeman. When not enjoying the outdoors, she is a freelance writer and works as a marketing manager at a local real estate office. MASTER OF MIXES PAGE 58 BRIAN D'AMBROSIO is the author of more than 10 books and his articles have been published in local, regional, and national pub- lications. D'Ambrosio's favorite journalistic topics or subjects: history, music, architecture, vernacular artists, boxing, photogra- phy, forgotten inventors, and obscure American poets and authors. He may be reached at dambrosiobrian@hotmail.com ARE YOU RIVER READY? PAGE 64 MIKE GARCIA is the owner of Northern Lights—Rivers Lakes & Oceans—a specialty water sports business of 40 years in Montana. Stores are located in Bozeman and Kalispell. He spends winters in Chile where he also owns a water sports store with his oldest son. For the last 10 years he has been helping Outfitters in Central and South America build their rafting companies with good equipment and safe prac- tices. Mike says, please keep our rivers clean! northernlightstrading.com WILD WEST WORDS PAGE 62 CHRYSTI M. SMITH was raised on a farm in northeastern Montana and now wrangles words for her daily radio series, "Chrysti the Wordsmith," produced at KGLT-FM in Bozeman; it can be heard on public radio stations throughout Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and worldwide on Armed Forces Radio. www.wordsmithradio.org. THE LITTLE SHELL PEOPLE PAGE 67 NICHOLAS VROOMAN lives in Helena. His work focuses on the reconfiguration period of Northern Plains Indigenous history. He served as State Folklorist for both Montana and North Da- kota, Manager for the Montana Commissioner of Higher Edu- cation's Educational Talent Search Program in Indian Country and Director of the Helena Indian Alliance. Currently Vrooman serves as historian for the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Upper Missouri River National Heritage Area Planning Corporation. MEDICINE ROCKS PAGE 70 EDNOR THERRIAULT'S Montana Curiosities, published in 2009, became the best-selling title in Globe Pequot's Curiosities series. Myths and Legends of Yellowstone is out in late 2018 on Two Dot, and erriault's current project, Seven Montanas, is scheduled for release in 2019. Playing music under the name Bob Wire, Ednor performs around the state and has released five albums of original music. He lives in Missoula. MONTANA'S SEDITION ACT PAGE 76 CLEM WORK retired from the University of Montana in 2014, where he was a professor in the School of Journalism. He came to UM in 1990 from U.S. News & World Report, where he was a senior editor. Before that, he was deputy director of the Report- ers Committee for Freedom of the Press in Washington, D.C. He obtained a law degree and was admitted to the California bar in 1975. Clem's book, Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West, led to a CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTORS CONTRIBUTORS VALERIE HARMS has edited this magazine since 2005 and says it is like throwing a party every season. A writer as well as editor, she is the author of 10 books and numerous articles. A graduate of Smith College, for seven years she was an editor at the National Audubon Society in New York City. She has taught writing and given workshops around the country, plus in Greece and Canada. In 1995 she moved to Montana to see wild animals in their habitats and explore the mountains and rivers. For more info see her Web site at www.valerieharms.com. Email queries to valerie@distinctlymontana.com. ROBERT RATH collects hyphens. Currently, he's an illustrator-designer-author-art director-dog walker living in Bozeman. He's illustrated many children's books, including the award-winning First Dog: Unleashed in the Montana Capitol, and Yellowstone's Hot Legends and Cool Myths. His clients include Lucasfilm, Scholastic Books, Farcountry Press, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, and many others. He isn't allergic to anything, can't remember names of housing subdivisions or birthdays, likes to cook, can wiggle his ears, and hates writing bios. www.robARTrath.com OUR ALEXIS PIKE TOM RATH BRANTLEY SNYDER

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