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REI Expert Advice column: Backpacking Food Ideas & Meal Planning by Phuong Le
Quick review–Lateral reading with on-line sources: Phuong Le (wiki, her other articles)
NYT Cooking supplement–Easy Meals, Picnic, Quick vegetarian Claim your daily pass to NYT via your school email address.

Gear planning

Use it as a checklist. REi is a .com–will try to sell you, borrow gear?

Montana Field Guides

Journalism

Digital Public Library of America

"Public access to our shared history, culture and knowledge."

Library of Congress

Engage with digital collections and exhibitions from our Nation's Library.

Montana Newspapers

The full-text searchable database contains 821,927 pages from 140 Montana town, county, school and tribal newspapers dated 1873-2018, including the Hellgate Lance from 1974-2017.

HHS Yearbooks and Literary Journals via The Montana History Portal

MCPS and HHS Bitterroot and Halberd yearbooks from 1906-present, some missing due to war, pandemics, and fire.

How I Built This (NPR podcast)

Stories behind some of the world's best known companies, innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists—and the movements they built.

Native American Studies

Char Koostra (Salish-Kootenai)

The official news of the Flathead Indian Reservation

High Country News

Learn what's happening across the west daily. A section of High Country News

Indian Country Today

IndiJ Public Media is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit sustaining Indigenous journalism that uplifts Native communities, supported by members, donors, and partners

Native News Online

Warrior journalism protecting tribal sovereignty.

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

Tours, events, exhibitions, collections, and online resources from our nation's museum.

Reading & ELA

Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Comedies, Tragedies, Histories, Sonnets.

Digital Public Library of America

"Public access to our shared history, culture and knowledge."

Library of Congress

Engage with digital collections and exhibitions from our nation's library.

Open Culture

Free online media, including eBooks, audiobooks, and movies.

Project Gutenberg

A collection of eBooks in the public domain--means they are free!

Talk to Books

Ask questions and get answers through Google Books.

Science

AmphibiaWeb

Connecting people around the world by synthesizing and sharing information about amphibians to enable research, education, and conservation (UC Berkeley).

Animal Diversity Web

Animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology; sponsored by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.

Center for Disease Control

CDC translates science into practical, easy to understand policy by clarifying and presenting scientific language so that anyone can understand it.

The Cornell Lab All About Birds: Bird Search

Search for 600+ North American Bird species.

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

An open access database of articles immediately free to read, download, and share.

Montana Fish and Wildlife Conservation

Montana conservation plans, threats to wildlife in MT and migration information

Nature

Current and historical collection of new scientific scholarly publications

PubMed

National Center for Biotech Information.

Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (Sora)

Free journals from UNM, specific and general bird species.

USFWS Wildlife Management Plans

US Fish and Wildlife Service management plans searchable by species, state or county.

As the world’s leading conservation organization, WWF collaborates with people in nearly 100 countries to develop and deliver innovative solutions that protect communities, wildlife, and the places in which they live.

Social Studies

American Rhetoric

Online speech bank.

CIA World Factbook

Basic information on countries.

Legislator Look up

Find your Montana senators and representatives, precinct maps and bills by year and district.

Library of Congress

Engage with digital collections and exhibitions from our nation's library.

Life Magazine Digital Archive - NY Public Library

Life Magazine Photo Archive

Millions of images from Life Magazine.

Mock Legislature Resource Guide

Dozens of resources curated by your librarians, plus MLA tips.

Montana Bill Explorer

Explore Bills in the state of Montana by session.

The Montana History Portal

MT historical documents, including MCPS and HHS Bitterroot and Halberd yearbooks from 1906-present, some missing due to war, pandemics, and fire.

Montana Newspapers

Full-text searchable database contains 821,927 pages from 140 Montana town, county, school and tribal newspapers dated 1873-2018, including the Hellgate Lance from 1974-2017.

National Archives

"All documents and materials created in the course of business conducted by the United States Federal government.”

National Action on Legislation

Browse national bills by date and session.

New York Times Times Machine

Over 150 years of NYT journalism, as it originally appeared. Log in with your school email address for access.

National Bills By Week

Explore National Bills being considered by week. Open the PDF to read them specifically.

Voices of Democracy

Speeches and debates in US history.