Montana-produced programming on KUSM, Montana-PBS

The following television shows appearing on Montana Public Television stations have been made in Montana or are about Montana. The programs are arranged by date of first airing:

Miles City and The Bucking Horse Sale: An "Adventures Sports Outdoors" Special
Host Harry Canterbury shares highlights of his visit to the 2002 Miles City Bucking Horse Sale.
Airing Sunday 6/1 at 9:30 a.m.

Montana Ag Live: Wild Montana Mushrooms
Have you ever wondered whether a tasty-looking wild mushroom is safe? Cathy Cripps, MSU-Bozeman mycologist, will give us some tips on what is and what isn’t edible–and some cautions about gathering, preparing and eating wild mushrooms.
Airing Sunday 6/1 at 7 p.m.

Purging Spurge: Corralling an Ecological Bandit
This documentary focuses on invasive weeds in general and on leafy spurge, a noxious weed of increasing concern in Montana, in particular. And it tells all about ecologically based integrated weed control management techniques. Produced by South Dakota’s Prairie Public Broadcasting
Airing Thursday 6/5 at 7 p.m., repeating Sunday 6/8 at 9:30 a.m.

Backroads of Montana: Havre to Hamilton [No. 107]
Host William. Marcus introduces us to Havre Beneath the Streets, Chinook’s Pitchfork Fondue, the shiniest Oldsmobile on earth in Butte–and to the noted jazz pianist Jean Wrobel, who lives in Hamilton.
Airing Saturday 6/7 at 5:30 p.m.

Montana Ag Live: Montana Products in Small Business Development
An easy entry into small business that builds upon skills many people already have is through foods–sauces, syrups and jams, baking mixes. Lynn Paul, MSU Extension food safety specialist, tells how to get such a business of the ground. Where do you start? What questions should you ask, and of whom?
Airing Sunday 6/8 at 7 p.m.

Blood of the Earth: Water Rights on the Flathead Indian Reservation
This documentary brings us up to date on the negotiations taking place on the Flathead Indian Reservation over reserved and aboriginal water rights. There’s just one proposal on the table, submitted to state and federal negotiators by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. We learn what it is and what its acceptance might mean.
Airing Wednesday 6/11 at 9 p.m.

Montana Profiles: Second Thoughts about Term Limits
In 1992, by a nearly two-to-one margin, Montanans passed a constitutional initiative (CI 64) setting limits on how long statewide elected executive officers, state legislators and others can hold office. In the session that ended in April, the legislature recommended longer term limits for lawmakers, and mandated that voters agree or disagree in the November 2004 general election. Host Gene Brodeur talks with partisans on both sides about the fight over term limits and discusses how voters are likely to see the issue.
Airing Thursday 6/12 at 7 p.m., repeating Sunday 6/15 at 9:30 a.m.

Backroads of Montana: The Badlands [No. 108]
We start with a tour of the Cameron Gallery in Terry, then stop at Makoshika State Park near Glendive to visit dinosaur hunter Doc Hiatt, then visit the Medicine Rocks near Ekalaka. After chats with a saddle maker and a pair of Wibaux homesteading pioneers, we conclude our journey by visiting with a trio of Ryegate retirees who combine woodworking and bird watching. This episode originates from Ulm Pishkun State Park near Great Falls.
Airing Saturday 6/14 at 5:30 p.m.

Rhythms of the Big Sky: Music and the Family
This program introduces us to a Missoula guitar player who reared his family to love music and to a jazz singer much influenced by her late father, a musician himself. We’ll spend time with University of Montana marching band, and we’ll get to meet and hear an up-and-coming Missoula band.
Airing Thursday 6/19 at 7 p.m., repeating Sunday 6/22 at 9:30 a.m.

Backroads of Montana: Amber Waves of Grain [No. 109]
In this episode we drop by East Helena to a look at one of the largest barns in the West, visit a farmer working to get his crop combined near Windham, have a gander at entries in the whimsical "What the Hay" contest between Hobson and Utica in Judith Basin, visit Glacier National Park, and watch from a safe distance when the dirt flies at a motorcycle hill-climb near Billings.
Airing Saturday 6/21 at 5:30 p.m.

For This and Future Generations: Montana’s 1972 Constitutional Convention
In midwinter 1972, 100 grass-roots delegates gathered in Helena to rewrite the century-old state constitution. In less than two months they produced a document that would affect the lives of generations of Montanans. Constitutional scholars rank our constitution among the nation’s finest.
Airing Sunday 6/22 at 9 p.m.

Montana Profiles: Department of Health and Human Services: Doing More With Less
Like many other states, Montana’s funds for social services are badly depleted and there’s no relief in sight. Gene Brodeur looks at the likely consequences for health care and childcare in Montana.
Airing Thursday 6/26 at 7 p.m., repeating Sunday 6/29 at 9:30 a.m.

Backroads of Montana: Wool and Wind [No. 110]
William Marcus takes us ice-sailing near Helena, kite-flying at a festival in Helena, gliding over the Flathead Valley, sightseeing in Glacier National Park, sheep shearing near Absarokee, and along for the ride through the Gates of the Mountain on the Missouri River near Helena.
Airing Saturday 6/28 at 5:30 p.m.

Montana PBS’s mission is to acquire, produce and deliver high quality educational, informational and entertaining programming and related outreach services to all Montanans. Montana PBS is comprised of KUSM-TV Bozeman and KUFM-TV Missoula, each a non-commercial educational licensee of Montana State University – Bozeman and The University of Montana – Missoula, respectively.

Contact: Aaron Pruitt (406) 994-5021

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