LIBBY, Mont. - The death of a Libby man in Northwest Montana's Yaak Valley over the weekend has sent the tight-knit community into a state of disbelief. "We had no idea that this guy had gotten killed ...

384 pages, softcover: $26. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. The Yaak Valley in the northwestern corner of Montana is one of the wildest places in the continental United States, home to grizzly bears ...

Hays Daniel and his family lived and worked out of yurts in the remote Yaak Valley for nearly four years, so he knows just how cozy and comfortable the structures can be, even during harsh Montana ...

In northwest Montana’s Yaak country — those lands in the Purcell Mountains that stretch down from out of Canada yet lie north of the Kootenai River in a strange wet biologically diverse garden that’s ...

A former petroleum engineer and prolific writer, he is best known for his tireless defense of Yaak Valley roadless areas, where less than one-fifth of 1 million acres of federal timber remains ...