Taleah is of Taíno ancestry and loves the great outdoors. During the winter months, one of her favorite activities is ice skating in the open air on Flathead Lake and Pablo Reservoir. In the summer months, Taleah enjoys paddleboarding and sailing with her family on the lake. However, those beloved activities in nature are becoming increasingly inaccessible with less ice for ice skating in the winter and raging wildfires filling the skies with smoke in the summer. Taleah has been harmed by increasing wildfire activity, which has forced her to prepare to evacuate her home in Polson. Wildfire smoke makes it so she can’t spend as much time outside hiking, riding horses, and paddleboarding on Flathead Lake.