Podcast Episodes

Season 3 Episode 6: Winnett ACES: Strengthening Community & Keeping Ranchers on Working Lands

Season 3 Episode 6

In Winnett, the only town in the least populated county in Montana, out-of-state absentee land ownership poses a threat to the future of ranching and the preservation of the region's intact prairie…

Published on 2 years, 5 months ago

Season 3 Bonus Episode: Developing Women Leaders for Montana's Future

Season 3

This bonus episode features a webinar recorded for the Women's Foundation of Montana, June 2022. "Developing Leaders for Montana's Future" was a virtual conversation about the landscape of women's l…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Season 3 Episode 5: Latrice Tatsey & Danielle Antelope on Culturally-Specific and Climate-Smart Blackfeet Food Systems

Season 3 Episode 5

The convergence of mountain and prairie ecosystems along the Rocky Mountain Front is the awe-inspiring backdrop of the Blackfeet Nation, home of the Amskapi Piikani, or Blackfeet, for time immemori…

Published on 2 years, 7 months ago

Season 3 Bonus Episode: Working Wild U "Wolves in the West: Defining the Problem"

Season 3

In this bonus episode from Working Wild U, a podcast by Montana State University Extension and Western Landowners Alliance, hosts Jared Beaver and Alex Few explore how people's values impact how they…

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Season 3 Episode 4: Rural Gentrification in North Idaho

Season 3 Episode 4

The small North Idaho town of Dover has seen the extraction of timber, cheap labor and the natural amenities that draw tourists and second home owners with high-incomes and high-expectations for the …

Published on 2 years, 9 months ago

Season 3 Episode 3: A Conversation with Kathleen McLaughlin on Class Inequality & Cultural Extraction in a Changing Montana

Season 3 Episode 3

Montana has long held a distinctive place within the mythos of America. Today, it's becoming an ever-more attractive destination for those in search of a stronger sense of community, or an escape, in…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Season 3 Bonus Episode: Stories for Action, "Strengthening Community in a Changing Montana"

In this bonus episode Stories for Action podcast host Lara Tomov explores how the pressures of rapid growth and development are affecting Montanans, and how community groups like Trust Montana, Succe…

Published on 2 years, 10 months ago

Season 3 Episode 2: Farm Succession in Northeast Montana

Season 3 Episode 2

After a lifetime farming wheat on the Northern Great Plains, the time has come for Russ Torgerson to retire. In this narrative episode, Reframing Rural producer Megan Torgerson shares the intimate jo…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago

Season 3 Episode 1: An interview with the "farmer's lawyer," Sarah Vogel

Season 3 Episode 1

The "farmer's lawyer" Sarah Vogel is a hero to farmers across the country. In the 1980s she saved 240,000 family farmers facing foreclosure. In the 2000s she pursued justice for thousands of Native A…

Published on 3 years ago

Season 3 "Groundwork" Preview

Season 3

Reframing Rural's third season will transport listeners to Golden Triangle wheat fields, farmhouse kitchen tables and small mountain town main streets. Combining sound-rich narrative non-fiction epis…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago