An ancestral river runs through it

Jeff Wivholm isn’t partial to mountains. He likes to be able to see the weather rolling in, which is remarkably possible in the northeastern corner of Montana. This story also appeared in Reasons to Be Cheerful On a cold January morning, Wivholm drives the dirt roads between farms in Sheridan County, where he’s lived for all his 63 years, with practiced ease, pointing out different plots of land by naming their owners. And if he doesn’t know the family name, Amy Yoder with the Sheridan County Conservation District or Brooke Johns with the Medici