Bear Paw Meanderings

If during August you want to walk on the wild side, why not visit our giant neighbor to the north, Canada and explore the Cypress Hills?

These days you will need a passport to get across the border and back into Montana as well. You can get an inexpensive and faster passport that lets you just into Canada and Mexico.

I don’t know that there are any true cypress trees in Cypress Park which would be your destination. Just like I know that there are no true maple trees in the town of Maple Creek. It seems that the lowly box elder tree is called a maple tree up north and yes, what we call box elde...