Under Montana's Big Sky, newly arrived homeowners are on a collision course with a resurgent population of top predators. Many ranchers have figured out the path to peaceful coexistence, but will they manage to pass on their hard-earned wisdom to newcomers unaccustomed to the ways of the wild?
At 12:30 in the morning of October 11, 2000, a mountain in eastern Kentucky burst open and let out a flood of mining waste bigger than the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Coal sludge damaged homes and killed everything in 20 miles of streams. Two years later, the land is green again but the bitterness remains.