Matthew Frank

Thank you, @LIONPubs! 🍊🚀

I love this story and I love that it helps define the kind of journalism and storytelling #Missoula can expect from @ThePulpMissoula. Thanks, Jacob! (And thanks for highlighting it, @longreads!)

Here’s a story I wrote about beer league hockey for our local independent publication The Pulp, which you should subscribe to and support. thepulp.org/missoula-hocke…

This is f’ing amazing hcn.org/issues/55.11/e…

Just in time for ballots arriving in Missoulians' mailboxes-- @ThePulpMissoula rolls out its election coverage: Candi-dating. I (maybe?) made @NugentforMsla 's ear bleed and almost lopped @andreaformayor's feet off. Links below 👇

Hey gang, @ThePulpMissoula has a $40K fundraising goal to make by Saturday. They've got a haul already, but could use some help. Support independent local journalism and kick them a few bucks, eh? thepulp.org/support-us/

In which I introduce The Pulp—what it is, what it isn’t, why #Missoula needs it, and why I hope you’ll help @EFredMT and me shape it. thepulp.org/we-loved-the-m… @ThePulpMissoula

So enormously excited to be launching The Pulp with @EFredMT! Subscribe and stay tuned! thepulp.org #missoula @ThePulpMissoula 🍊🚀

Oregon’s Greater Idaho movement echoes a long history of racism in the region, 'The Age of Insurrection,' how the loss of local newspapers is fueling political divisions, and much more mountainwestnews.org/p/the-fever-of… h/t @Leah_Sottile @DavidNeiwert @NewsHour

A battery of big energy and climate stories, the bear in your backyard, on the frontlines of B.C.’s wildfire fight, repatriation undermined, touring the West's myth museum + more mountainwestnews.org/p/charged-atmo… h/t @MBoothDenver @GloriaDickie @marymhudetz @betsygquammen @EENewsUpdates

A sage grouse flap in Wyoming, Blackfeet release wild bison, Gorsuch's lead, tracing the route of the Uinta Basin Railway, sparing over solar, hope for rural homeless, and much more mountainwestnews.org/p/fragile-mena… h/t @The_News_Record @NoraMabie @tnyCloseRead @dcwoodruff @RANGEMedia4all

Mining nuggets, air grievances, Navajo status quo, the ICWA struggle, isolated griz, 'playing god' in Glacier + more mountainwestnews.org/p/finding-payd… h/t @EENewsUpdates @ianmaxstevenson @Kujjua @LeiaLarsen @sftrent @m0nica10 @LukeRunyon @Lussenpop @aislintweedy @tristanscott @Koshywrites

Montana youth climate trial nears as state doubles down on fossil fuels, a cathedral to time is losing its river, Indian Country matters, resilient grizzlies + much more mountainwestnews.org/p/a-climate-tr… h/t @micahddrew @FlatheadBeacon @amandaleggert @mtfreepress @zhonggg @highcountrynews

BLM's big idea raises hopes and hackles, the tipping point of national parks, when fire goes feral, slaughters and revivals, the case for a national petroglyph, and much more mountainwestnews.org/p/a-new-lease-… h/t @hhansman @JohnVaillant @mtfreepress @wyofile @sltrib @ColoradoSun

The barriers to controlled burns, political animals, how firing ranges’ hidden costs hit taxpayers, water pressures mount, extreme heat in tribal jails, and much more mountainwestnews.org/p/trials-by-fi… h/t @jennoldham @HelenaDore3 @brianmaffly @_msakas @savannah_maher @grist @EENewsUpdates

Podcast ‘Stolen’ earns a Pulitzer, Alberta ablaze, Montana Legislature hits the gas, bison politics, plan to pay farmers to use less water comes up dry, and much more mountainwestnews.org/p/indigenous-s… h/t @connie_walker @Gimletmedia @MonicaZurowski @TomLutey @isabelrhicks @Conrad_Swanson

Mountain West rewriting its zoning regs, retelling U.S. history with Native Americans at the center, BLM eyes conservation leasing, climate change refugia, and much more mountainwestnews.org/p/the-buildup h/t @kristoncapps @JerusalemDemsas @c_m_dangelo @CPRNews @mtfreepress @highcountrynews

Colorado River news flood, Boulder v. Big Oil, Utah's monument challenge, inside the battle for Oak Flat, Biden’s push for power lines, respecting grizzlies, and much more mountainwestnews.org/p/flow-states h/t @voxdotcom @samuelbrasch @JenniferYachnin @kateschimel @Debkrol @Land_Desk @

Utah's private powder, fire and ice, park hyper-visitation, air grievances, Ken Burns on ‘The American Buffalo’ and Indigenous histories, and much more mountainwestnews.org/p/living-large h/t @brianmaffly @BrettBFrench @lesommer @cketchamwild @highcountrynews @ColoradoSun @sltrib

NorthWestern Energy flexes its influence, Montana newsroom cuts, podcasting the Colorado, dead muleys, songs of the dammed, and much more mountainwestnews.org/p/power-plays h/t @TomLutey @amandaleggert @KeilaSzpaller @LukeRunyon @Koshywrites @MorganSjogren @NoraMabie