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 »
Permalink 01/17/12 09:30:00 pm, by Mel Email , 178 words, Categories: Profiles, MSU News Service, Outdoor Recreation , 1 comment »Send a trackback »

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 »
Permalink 03/01/11 11:55:41 am, by Mel Email , 234 words, Categories: Profiles, Parenting, Women's Adventure, Outdoor Recreation , Leave a comment »Send a trackback »

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 »
Permalink 01/11/10 07:26:51 pm, by Mel Email , 696 words, Categories: Science/Nature, Profiles, Greater Yellowstone, High Country News , Leave a comment »Send a trackback »

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 »
Permalink 01/11/10 07:24:26 pm, by Mel Email , 519 words, Categories: Science/Nature, Profiles, High Country News , Leave a comment »Send a trackback »

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 »
Permalink 01/11/10 07:21:59 pm, by Mel Email , 468 words, Categories: Science/Nature, Profiles, High Country News , Leave a comment »Send a trackback »

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