Rick Bass writes from the wet and wild Yaak Valley, and Brian Schott talks with Tom Brokaw about nature and life in Montana, then visits Whitefish, a summer paradise. Jody Dahl asks whether you’re ranch happy, and Wendy Pierce picks day hikes with dogs. Also inside: the My Montana Home section, Dorothy Patent on artist Larry Pirnie, a Montana theatre round-up, summer poems by B.J. Buckley, Virginia Bryan at the St. Labre Indian School, romancing the log, and the reluctant architect.