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Distinctly Montana Spring 2013

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Contributors OUR 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 nine 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. Tree Ring pens page 18 Shawn Regan is a former backcountry ranger for the National Park Service and a fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), where Wager attended the 2011 PERC Enviropreneur Institute. More information can be found at www.enviropreneurs.org. Regan can be reached at shawn@perc.org. Horse packing Yellowstone park page 21 Connie Myslik-McFadden, MSS, LCSW is a Jungian psychotherapist in private practice in Bozeman. She leads an annual Gathering the Soul in the Wilderness retreat at the Blacktail Ranch in Wolf Creek, MT, that includes Dreamwork, Meditation, Journaling and Journeying, and Horse as Mirror. www.gatheringthesoul.com, mtlionlady@gmail.com. Montana in 30 years Climate change page 31 Steven W. Running has been University Regents Professor of Ecology at the U of Montana since 1979. His primary research interest is the development of global and regional ecosystem biogeochemical models integrating remote sensing with bioclimatology and terrestrial ecology. He is a Team Member for the NASA Earth Observing System and has published over 270 scientific articles and two books. Among many honors, Dr. Running shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 as a chapter Lead Author for the 4th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The Western Way page 34 Gordon and Cathie Sullivan are professional photographers headquartered in Libby, Montana. Over a career that spans decades the pair has published eight books with two winning prestigious awards, dozens of colorful calendars, and a host of articles and covers appearing in national and regional magazines. Their most recent book Photographing Montana was released to a national market in January by Countryman Press/Norton. Another of their books Saving Homewaters; The Story of Montana���s Streams and Rivers was an Honor Book in Montana���s Book of the Year in 2008. 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, The History Channel, Scholastic Books, Farcountry Press and many others. He isn���t allergic to anything, can���t remember birthdays, likes to cook, can wiggle his ears and hates writing bios. Seduction dinner page 37 Chef Jim Gray is the host of the syndicated weekly program, ���Kitchen Guy���the Tastiest Two Minutes in Television,��� seen on Max Media Stations in Montana. He also owns and operates the Kitchen Guy Cooking School in Missoula. Contact him at chefjimgray@gmail.com. Montana���s secret visitors graduate studies in zoology at UM. Joan worked as a conservation biologist for the Montana Environmental Information Center, the Nature Conservancy, and Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Joan freelanced as a nature interpretation writer, and has written numerous articles for scientific and conservation publications. Joan has been actively involved in women���s empowerment and is a columnist for Crone Magazine. She is also a lifelong student of unexplained phenomena and long time member of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Gardening tips page 39 In the early 1970���s Diane Elliott wrote a column, ���Digging and Scratching���, for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, which led to a plethora of gardening questions. She responded by writing Sunshine Soil and Short Seasons. Elliott has won awards for poetry and short stories published in literary magazines. Her novel Strength of Stone garnered the Willa silver award for historical fiction and was short-listed for the Saroyan prize for international literature. She lives in Bozeman with her husband and Poodle Spud. Something new to howl about! Follow the pack to distinctlymontana.com Check out new montana stuff exclusively online! www.distinctlymontana.com 10 page 50 Joan Bird moved to Montana in l973 to pursue D I ST I NCT LY M ONTANA ��� SPRI NG 2013

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