Grizzly bear specialist for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Chad White, pulls DNA samples from the frozen remains of a grizzly bear near Choteau, Montana on Friday, October 4, 2024. This grizzly was killed by hunters after it was mistaken for a black bear in an area grizzlies are recolonizing.
Fort Peck Tribes' buffalo herd roams the windswept plains of the 33,000 acre Turtle Mound Ranch near Wolf Point on Thursday, February 19, 2026. The Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes' program is one of the longest running and largest Tribally owned buffalo herds in the country. Fort Peck recently received their largest shipment of buffalo from Yellowstone National Park since their partnership started in 2012.
Kendall Koss, 26, and his son Kelly Koss, 2, on the ranch south of Malta, Montana, on Friday, May 1, 2026. Koss, along with his wife Iris and three kids, raises black Angus cattle and seed stock bulls. He leases land from American Prairie and shares a border with their bison, but he disagrees with American Prairie’s mission.
Rancher Dale Veseth unloads and moves replacement heffers by four wheeler south of Malta, Montana, on Wednesday, April 29, 2026. "Ranchers cannot afford to ranch here because the price of land has gone up," Veseth said.
Erik Montejano, 26, tops tobacco in 90ºF on the Dunaway’s farm near Berry, Kentucky on Saturday, July 13, 2024. Over the last 20 years, tobacco production has declined 61.9% in Kentucky, according to the USDA Agriculture Census. Part of Boyd's Station Project 306.36 on rural America
A car driven down a driveway on the Navajo Nation on Saturday, October 19, 2025. To get to school, Navajo students typically must travel rural dirt roads like this one. The Secure Rural Schools program provides critical funding for rural infrastructure in Coconino County. Commercial work for Resource Rural
Since 2021, Richard Forbes has been attempting to visit all 26 of the remaining glaciers in Glacier National Park on foot, many of them only accessible through steep off-trail terrain. Back when the park was established in 1910, NASA estimates there were 150 glaciers. Due to climate change, only 17% remain.
Sarah Straughan giggles in a field of alpine wildflowers deep in the backcountry of Glacier National Park on July 28, 2025. Many of the namesake glaciers in the national park are disappearing due to climate change.
Gary Rillerna shuttles a sick calf by car during calving season on the Cobb Charolais Ranch near Augusta, Montana, on Friday, March 20, 2024. Ranching, which is an important part of the rural economy and lifestyle in Montana, forges an intimate bond between people and their livestock.
Stella Kinesis lingers in the doorway before her championship fight against Margaret Murder at the Zootown Arts Community Center in Missoula on Saturday, June 7, 2025. Montana Drag Wrestling, or MDW, started back in 2023 after a series of bills were introduced targeting drag.
A large structure fire, energized by high winds off Lake Superior, burned for nearly four hours and leveled three local businesses in downtown Grand Marais, Minnesota on Monday, April 13, 2020.
Charles Fish, 7, and Linus Fish, 7, play around on a inflatable waterslide in a Rent-To-Own neighborhood on the Blackfeet Nation in Browning, Montana, on Tuesday, August 26, 2025.
Amish members Mahlon Hostetler, John Gingerich, and Samuel Gingerich are passed by a car as they head to work by horse and buggy on Lafferty Pike Road near Berry, Kentucky on Friday, June 14, 2024. Part of Boyd's Station Project 306.36 on rural America
Al Switzer, 57, takes a break from working on his truck outside his garage off Martin Road near Renaker, Kentucky, on Sunday, August 11, 2024. Part of Boyd's Station Project 306.36 on rural America
With assistance from a birth doula and team of medical providers, Marty gave birth to a little girl alongside her partner Spencer at Community Medical Center in Missoula, Montana, on Wednesday, December 17, 2025. CMC's labor and delivery unit is the only one left in the Missoula after St. Patrick Hospital decided to shut down their unit in 2025.
Jennifer Mayo, OB/GYN of Western Montana Clinic poses for a portrait at Community Medical Center on Friday, November 14, 2025. Dr. Mayo was one of three physicians St. Pats recruited to start their obstetric unit in 2015. She found out abruptly that the center would be closing in October 2025. “The staff were floored by the announcement,” said Mayo.