The Last First Mile

Montana Public Radio | By Nora Saks

Published May 21, 2018 at 12:41 AM MDT

A documentary about why the first mile of Silver Bow Creek in Butte was left for last to be cleaned up, and what a crew of feisty locals are doing about it.

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