Montana Hook and Bullet News

Fires in California billowed smoke across the continent, and then around the globe.

True flies sport one pair of wings, and a pair of gyroscopes called halteres. Halteres turn flies into aerial acrobats.

It takes a team effort to turn a puppy into a bird dog. My 10-year-old setter Doll and I are doing our best with the teen terror upending our lives.

I recently came upon a tree felling operation that suggested the tree fellers were in as great a danger as the tree.

After years of haggling, the Land and Water Conservation fund was finally approved with full funding in August when President Trump signed the bill into law.

I've got a new puppy, Jade. She's beautiful and fun. Now if she'd just sleep through the night.

This was no catch and release trip. The Fish Slayer took us to his favorite walleye spot and our creel was heavy with future filets by morning's end.

I ended the summer with one last float on the Stillwater where it joins with the Yellowstone, with an old friend from my Kalispell days.

These are rough times. Do the little things that will reduce stress on stressed out strangers.

We used to say dogs age about seven years for every 365 days. A new estimate of dog vs. human years hasn't changed much about that old formula.