Today, Dillon's Episcopal church held their Sunday service in honour of their pets. The church was established in 1881 and had a small congregation of about 20 people, 8 dogs, 1 parrot, 1 cat and 5 horses. The service was quiet an experience as you can imagine. It kicked off as you would expect with... Continue Reading →

I thought Dillon was a small remote town but today we went to Wise River - a town in the middle of nowhere. Wise River was so minute, I would barely classify it as a town. It had a post office and one tiny store to grab a few groceries in and a couple of... Continue Reading →

When it's rainy and grey outside what better thing to do than learn Bollywood dancing. Today sukhin has kindly leant me her beautiful Indian dress and has been training me up on traditional Indian dancing. https://youtu.be/9gQjvJyuKr8 This song is about a man (Sukhin) who is asking out a girl (me) who is not interested. She is... Continue Reading →

Last night we went to see a production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. It was a four character play and was done very well. It was set in St Louis in the south. At first it was hard to work out what accents the actors were trying to imitate but a quick Wikipedia... Continue Reading →

Once a year the entire forest service work force for the Beaverhead- Deerlodge region gets together and has a field day. Yesterday we went to Butte a nearby town and did some restoration work on Thompson Park there. We carried out several tasks. Firstly, we cleared some weeds from the trail. https://youtu.be/mDSqQkrCZ-Q Clambering up steep... Continue Reading →

I cannot believe I only have four weeks left in Dillon working for the Forest Service. I have learnt so much these past two months, not only in regards to environmental science but also about culture, the great outdoors and living sustainably (which believe it or not is possible). The way of life in the... Continue Reading →

Time to sit down and make some pretty graphs showing temporal and spatial environmental changes. I have been given data for several weather stations and am tackling summarising solar radiation, air, soil and stream temperature data. Making clear, precise, well displayed graphs is rewarding even if the process can be long at times. It will... Continue Reading →

As a lot of you are aware my sense of direction and map reading skills are shocking. Back home I constantly use GPS on my phone to get around and still manage to get lost. However, in the wilds of Montana I do not own a working American cell phone and even if I did... Continue Reading →

College football is a massive deal out here - the event itself is a sociable, lively and raucous spectacle. The atmosphere was amazing, people were cheering like there was no tomorrow. Others were stamping their feet on the bleachers and shaking bottles with coins in. People were very much into supporting their team. The cheerleaders... Continue Reading →

In our frantic weekly supermarket shop there is barely time to contemplate where our food has come from. Visiting a ranch in the midst of potato harvest really opened my eyes to some of the processes involved. This ranch were harvesting seed potatoes. These are sold to farmers in March to be used to grow... Continue Reading →