“We’re trying to make the maps look and feel like the old topo maps you could hold in your hand,” USGS Montana geospatial liason Lance Clampitt said from Bozeman. “We’ve gone from producing hard-copy ...

They've been five years in the planning, plotting and making, and now, hot off the University of Montana's presses, they're here -a series of historical Montana maps for the cartographically inclined ...

The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Lincoln, Montana on Thursday was the area’s strongest in 60 years. The tremors from this quake stretched for hundreds of miles across the state, and residents as ...

In a state with such a proud Native American history, it is surprising how few of Montana's major place names honor native peoples. Over the past 15 years there has been an organized effort to remove ...

The Montana Historical Society Press publishes readable and provocative books for students and adults focusing on the history and cultural resources of Montana. Its books are designed to connect ...

Think of Mark Reller as the lone mapmaker with a goal of providing high quality fishing maps of Montana waters. As such, Reller is filling a niche that's sadly in need of filling. Very few lakes in ...

After years of trying to make paper maps work on computers, the U.S. Geological Survey wants digital maps to work like paper ones. “We’re trying to make the maps look and feel like the old topo maps ...