The heart of Missoula is seven city blocks held by a ribcage of railroad tracks and river bridges. The heart supports 30 bars, three liquor stores, two breweries, and a distillery, all within 15-minute walking distance. With a campus of nearly 15,000 students across the river and many residents working low-paying jobs just to stay in town, the drinking scene isn’t struggling.
With Take a look at this photo essay by Eric Oravsky about how a night can take a turn for the worse.
After a 12-month investigation by the Department of Justice that ended with the DOJ coming to agreement with the University of Montana to revise its policies on sexual violence, the community of Missoula and journalists covering it are still affected by sexual assault. Our cover story deals with how the media coverage of several rape cases forever changed the mountain town.
Read the full story here.
Today’s feature from the upcoming magazine is a comic from Callan Berry
See the post and comment here!
You can find more of Callan’s work over at Mumble City
Who killed this tree?
No need to remove the bark to see which bark beetle caused the demise of this ponderosa pine. Let the woodpeckers tell you. The pattern of bark removal on this tree tells me it was killed by western pine beetle. This beetle completes development inside the bark. The woodpeckers flake off only enough bark to get to the larvae. In contrast, mountain pine beetle develops under the bark. If this tree had been killed by mountain pine beetle, the woodpeckers would have had to work much harder, and completely remove the bark to feed. In my lab, we call this Tree CSI. Even years after a tree is killed, a lot that can be learned about what happened throughout its life including the climate it experienced, what killed it, and what happened to it in the period after death. You just need to know how to read the clues!
I went to school at The University of Montana and my wife and me now live in Belgium. This is a picture of me in the city center of Brussels, of course wearing my UM shirt. I live in Missoula each summer and am in Europe during the rest of the time and always remember to bring my MT stuff to remind me of home!
- From Brian Qvale, now living in Mons, Belgium
I was given this framed Steinbeck quote when I moved to WA in January. It’s important to me because since my boyfriend is an officer in the Navy, we may get to live in a lot of different places, and this quote helps me to remember where I come from and to try and get back to the state I love someday.
- From Emerald Gilleran, now living in Washington
