Category: Profiles
Coach drives rise of MSU Nordic skiing from underdogs to national podium
Parents often hyperbolize to their children that they had to ski to school through heavy snow, uphill both ways. It may not have been uphill both ways, but Grethe-Lise Hagensen, head coach of the Montana State University Nordic ski team since 2003 and t… more »
Rolling Home
Nancy Vogel unfolded her map. Smoothing out the creases, wrestling with the folds, putting Mexico behind her, and seeing the small Honduran town of Choluteca on the map for the first time. After almost a year, Nancy, along with husband John and twin 10-… more »
Tripping Over T-Rex
Name: Bob Harmon
Hometown: Bozeman, Montana
Vocation: Chief preparator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies and crew chief
Known For: Finding the first dinosaur bones with soft tissue
Bob Harmon is not an excitable man. His face isn’t anim… more »
She Wins Friends for Lions, Wolves and Bears
Janelle Holden is in the business of changing minds — including her own. Holden, the coexistence director for the nonprofit Predator Conservation Alliance, grew up on a cattle ranch on the Great Plains, just east of the Rocky Mountain Front. When grizzl… more »
A Glimpse of the Past in a Grain of Pollen
NAME
Cathy Whitlock
VOCATION
Montana State University paleoecologist
AGE
51
HOME BASE
Bozeman, Montana
NOTED FOR
Discerning ecosystem changes over the last 20,000 years
SHE SAYS
"It’s a great puzzle trying to figure out how an ecosy… more »