Distinctly Montana Magazine

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 biooks 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, Montana. He's illustrated many children's books, including the award-winning and , and drawn a couple of comic treatments for movie pitches. His clients include Lucasfilm, The History Channel, Scholastic Books, Farcountry Press, Creative Artists Agency, and many others. He isn't allergic to anything, likes to cook, and hates writing bios. PADDLER, KNOW THYSELF PAGE 14 Doug Ammons is pick as one of the top 10 game changers in adventure since 1900. "What the great Himalayan soloist Reinhold Messner did for alpinism, Ammons did for kayaking." GOATS AT GUNSIGHT PASS PAGE 19 Paul Schullery's many books include Searching for and He served as an advisor and interviewee for the Ken Burns film . Learn more at www.paulschullery.com. Before becoming a full-time and award-winning artist in 2003, Marsha Karle's National Park Service career included assignments in some of America's most spectacular and inspiring settings. View her work at www.Karleart.com. is her fifth collaboration with Paul Schullery. SNORKELING FOR WILDFLOWERS PAGE 22 Whitney Tilt operates a consulting business, Conserva- tion BenchMarks (www.conservationbenchmarks.com), special- izing in strategic planning, evaluation, and issue management on a wide range of natural resource issues. He is also a partner in High Country Apps (www.highcountryapps.com), working to develop natural history applications. Throughout his career Whitney has focused on conservation, working with such organizations as the Na- tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Sonoran Institute, and National Audubon Society. BIRDS, BEES, BUTTERFLIES FROM BOZEMAN TO BHUTAN PAGE 26 Hannah Kreitzer made her first foray to Montana in the summer of 2011 as an intern for The Tributary Fund. Though she returned to her native state of Maine in the fall to achieve her B.A. in Environmental, she hopes to find a few meaningful roads to wander from there. TIPI RETREATS PAGE 46 Jean Patterson met Cathy Smith several years ago and like her always loved the American West. Jean has lived in the Red Lodge area for nearly 10 years with her family. The author of a children's book, in the . 12 THE MUSTARD SEED FAITHFUL PAGE 50 Glenda Wallace is a free-lance writer living an adventur- ous life near Missoula, Montana. KITCHEN DESIGNS THAT WORK WONDERS PAGE 53 Kate Hove is a freelance writer out of Lewistown, Idaho, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. THE WILD, WEIRD HEART OF MISSOULA PAGE 60 A fourth-generation Missoulian, Caroline Patterson edited She has published numerous stories in journals including and completed a novel, Missoula Writing Collaborative and edits and has She teaches poetry for the the magazine of the Lewis and Clark Trial Heritage Foundation. Taylar Robbins is a Missoula native who has a passion for both photography and the beauty of the area. BYTE OF BOZEMAN: THE AMERICAN COMPUTER MUSEUM PAGE 66 Valerie Hemingway is a freelance writer who lives in Bozeman. Author of a memoir, she is a Visiting Scholar in the MSU Bill- ings Honors Department for the Spring Semester 2012. WE'RE HOWLING FOR YOUR MATERIAL! ATTENTION WRITERS AND MUSICIANS AND NON-PROFITS! she writes a weekly column Writers: We are looking for entertaining fiction (under 1500 words) Musicians: Tell us about your music and upcoming performances Nonprofit organizations: Tell us about your upcoming events and news DISTINCTLY MONTANA • SPRING 2012 First Dog: Unleashed in the Y Montana Capitol, and Cool Myths ellowstone' s Hot Legends Montana W Outside Magazine' s omen Writers: A Geography of the Heart. Southwest Review Quarterly Review America' s National Parks, Real Alaska, and Clark Among the Grizzlies. Y The National Parks: America' ellowstone, Mountain T ime, Lewis s Best Idea This with the Hemingways, , Seventeen, The Stone Sister . W Alaska e Proceeded On, Running with the Bulls: My Y ears High, Wild Country W estern Ag Reporter Moose Shoes,

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