Recent Posts – Scott McMillion's articles and broadcasts:
“Pulled from the Brink”
By Scott McMillion
Montana Quarterly
Spring 2012
Private herds helped save America’s wild bison. Today, bison restoration remains a largely private matter.
“Watered Down”
By Scott McMillion
Photographs by Peter McBride
Nature Conservancy Magazine
Winter, 2012
Can the mighty Colorado reach the sea?
“My Kind of Town: Livingston, Montana”
By Scott McMillion
Photography by Thomas Lee
Montana Quarterly
Fall 2011
“How the Money Flows”
By Scott McMillion
Photography by Thomas Lee
Montana Quarterly
Summer 2011
The federal government spends billions in Montana. Here’s where it goes, county by county.
“Continental Divide”
By Scott McMillion
Nature Conservancy Magazine
Summer, 2011
Can two countries come together to save a pristine valley?
Excerpt:
Yet isolated though it is by geography, bad roads and weather, the North Fork has been at the center of some of the continent’s thorniest struggles over development.
For a century, people have tried to pull fossil fuels from [...]
“A Rare, Ghastly Night”
By Scott McMillion
Montana Quarterly
Spring 2011
While most bear attacks on humans can be explained, last summer’s predatory attacks near Cooke City remind us that occasionally, bears see humans as food.
“Winds of Change”
By Scott McMillion
Photography by Thomas Lee
Montana Quarterly
Winter 2010
Montana is on the threshold of becoming a major wind energy producer. The benefits are clear, but at what costs?
“A Soldier Comes Home”
By Scott McMillion
Photography by Wayne Twiehaus, Larry Mayer (Billings Gazette)
Sketch of First Lt. Paul Magers courtesy of Magers Family
Montana Quarterly
Winter 2010
Nearly four decades after his death, a town gathers to honor a pilot and ponder the memories of a bitter war.
“Hope at the End of A Rope”
By Scott McMillion
Photography by Thomas Lee
Montana Quarterly
Fall 2010
Montana Ranch Helping Kids No One Else Wants
“Cowboy Cool”
By Scott McMillion
Photography by Thomas Lee
Montana Quarterly
Fall 2010
Legendary rodeo poet Paul Zarzyski and singer/songwriter Wylie Gustafson team up to create music infused with the heart of the past that’s grounded in the present.
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Scott McMillion has been an award-winning journalist and author for more than 20 years. He is the author of "Mark of the Grizzly," now in a new revised and updated edition, and has been senior editor of the critically acclaimed Montana Quarterly for the past six years.
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