Montana Tales and Trails

Can we all agree that winter is here?

We probably could have reached that consensus of opinion after the snowstorms of late September and early October, but at times since the weather has seesawed like polling data before an election.

Now, however, as Christmas closes in, we realize winter is here. The calendar tells us so, as does the dwindling amount of daylight. So do relatives that keep telling me how nice the weather is now in Arizona. I don't hear so much from them in the summer.

Animals of Montana have long prepared for winter. Those still here, that is those that did not migrate, are e...