ShareIt is Earth Day and that is a good thing, but with the forces marshaled against it, more than one day will be needed. As with all symbols the actual day is the least important part of the movement, which through the Earth Day Network has done great work in bringing to the forefront of peoples’ consciousness our need to conserve.  “Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect” –…

ShareThe Charlie Russell paintings on display at the Montana Historical Society in Helena are part of the Mackay Collection. Charles and Nancy Russell were great friends of Malcolm and Helen Mackay who went on to become his primary patron. Though hailing from New Jersey Mackay had, in 1901, proved up on 160 acres between the East and West Rosebud. Over time that would become the Lazy EL, Bench Ranch neighbors here to the south.