Michael Punke

Love the fall woods…

Hairy Woodpecker and his precision handiwork…

Sun sets on summer at Flathead Lake…

You know it’s going to be a good day when it starts off with a topo map…

Ninenark: First harbinger of spring green and the first blush of fall crimson in the Montana woods. Get your flannel ready…

Dog paddle…

Some wisdom from Livingston, Montana - a place that knows a little bit about fishing…

Lucky for a narrow window with a patch of smoke-free air to sneak in a ruck. Thinking of our friends in Spokane… Keep the faith…

A new sighting of our Barred Owl friend, with bars in full evidence…

Flathead Lake Cherry Festival…

Flathead Lake Cherry Festival…

Nice sunset on a Flathead weekend…

Happy 250th, USA! Flathead Lake set off early fireworks last night with this epic display of Northern Lights…

On today’s hike: A couple Barred Owls - perhaps juvenile siblings - deep in Mission Mountain woods.

The rare treat (where I hike) of a summer elk sighting…

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. I have a lifelong obsession with this battle, dating back to seeing the famous Paxson painting on a school trip to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, WY, near my boyhood home of Lovell.

1:45 to game time!! USA!!

Gotta love the Bitterroot: Montana’s glorious state flower only grows on rocky, dry, hillsides that look like last place to cultivate anything. Almost like it’s a metaphor…

Great hike today: a rare bird (Tanager) and a rare flower (Lady’s Slipper)…

Mission runoff in full force, all the more so after the weekend of heavy (needed) rains…