By Sabrina Fehring | Native News, University of Montana School of Journalism

Seeing the climate changes and how they are entangled with traditions and culture, many tribal members are devastated. Traditions and landscapes are changing. Their elders had to go through adapting in the past. Now the Séliš-Qĺispé have to adapt once more to human-caused events.

What if we stand together this time
Toward a different shared ground

Just a whisper comes on the gentling air

What if?

By Florian Reber | Tales of Change

It is in rural areas like these where I expected to meet more climate skeptics than anywhere else on my trip. To my surprise, my actual experience was quite the opposite.

In Missoula, I taught children about wildfires, unrelenting and devastating, lifegiving and restorative.

If only smoke could be restorative for me.

Megan Thornton is a passionate climate advocate and mother from Montana. She played an integral role in establishing the garden at Russell Elementary School, where her kids attend. We asked her about her experience getting this project off the ground, along with what inspires and motivates her.

By Lisa J. Watt & Mike Durglo | Ecotrust

I talk a lot about climate change impacts on cultural resources and how they are impacting what is happening to our food, our medicine. Every year I try to bring on as many interns as I can from the Salish Kootenai College and just pull them onto the boat and tell them, “Grab an oar and start rowing, man. We need all the help we can get getting this boat up the river.” That’s where we’re headed.

By Darrell Ehrlick | Daily Montanan

[Steve] Charter has hired an attorney and plans to fight Signal Peak’s effort to kick him off his own deeded land, but without the grazing leases, the future remains uncertain for a family that has been ranching for several generations. The company has given him notice that they’re cancelling the leases on their land, and he says they’re trying to even shut him off his own property — something they may be able to do because of leasing arrangements dating back to 1990.

I help to lead a coalition of more than 25 NGOs working with multinational corporations to eliminate deforestation from agricultural commodity production and trade. Deforestation for just a few products - beef, soy, palm oil, timber - produces up to 10% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions each year, and figuring out how to decouple production from land clearance will be essential for companies working to meet climate goals.