Stories

 
 

In high demand

Just outside of Big Timber the roads are quiet. A dusting of snow highlights the Crazy Mountains to the northwest. A packed parking lot leads to the front door of Pioneer Meats with a sign that reads “Full. We are not accepting carcasses unless prior arrangements have been made.”

 

Plastic runs through it

In 1955, LIFE magazine published a story titled “Throwaway Living.” The article celebrated plastic as a miracle material that would save the American housewife from drowning in dirty dishes. Two generations later, we are drowning in plastics.

Each spring, the blanket of snow covering the Northern Rockies and Greater Yellowstone melts, unveiling water bottles, Snickers wrappers, ski straps, and a myriad of other miscellaneous plastic, discarded or lost but far from decomposed.

 

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