Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan

Writer & Editor

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January 2025: Last fall, Mountain Outlaw sent me up to northern Montana's Hi-Line to report one of my favorite kinds of stories: a look at how major events affect people's everyday lives. In this case, it was a catastrophic failure of an aging irrigation system upon which tens of thousands of people depend. What happens when the river runs dry? Here's one look.