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Flies and Feathers: Don't drain the duck factory
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (227+ words) Jaden Kirkoff is the regional director for Ducks Unlimited. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is reviewing a rule that helps ensure voluntary National Wildlife Refuge System wetland easements in the Prairie Pothole Region are not drained or degraded. For more…...
'We’ve given them the short end of the stick': Montana program helps landowners coexist with beavers
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (980+ words) Volunteers gather to wrap willow trees in wire and prevent beavers from gnawing them. Volunteers gathered along the confluence of the East Gallatin River and Hyalite Creek on Tuesday, wielding wire cutters and rolls of welded utility fence. With 400 feet…...
Montana is selling more state trust land than it’s buying
1+ week, 5+ day ago (826+ words) In recent years, Montana has sold more state trust land than it’s purchased due, in part, to a fast-moving real estate market. Seth Goodwin, Land Section Supervisor with the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, told the state Land Board…...
Montana wants to release 50,000 ‘pen pheasants’ per year. Most of them quickly die.
1+ week, 5+ day ago (1706+ words) A controversial program that sees farm-raised pheasants released by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks for youth to hunt could expand by as much as 40,000 birds annually if a proposal by the agency is approved by the Fish and Wildlife Commission…...
Federal judge restores road density limits in Bitterroot National Forest
2+ week, 5+ day ago (273+ words) A view of the Bitterroot Valley. A federal judge restored prior limits on road densities in the Bitterroot National Forest and is requiring federal agencies to evaluate the impacts of roads on grizzly bears, bull trout and their habitats. In…...
Burgum, Gianforte are shifting grizzly management to states
2+ week, 6+ day ago (767+ words) U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Montana Governor Greg Gianforte, joined by Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon, and Idaho Governor Brad Little, announced Tuesday near Big Sky that the federal government is proposing to shift grizzly bear management from federal to state…...
Do no ‘harm’: Feds rescind ESA definition protecting habitat
3+ week, 1+ hour ago (647+ words) A wolverine, a very rare carnivore in the Lower 48 and listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, perched beneath a Douglas fir in the Montana mountains on a spring morning, April 2022. A new federal rule eliminating the definition of…...
Behind the book: How one journalist convinced a conservation icon to open up
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1210+ words) Miriam Horn wrote "Homesick for a World Unknown" a biography on modern wildlife biology pioneer George B. Schaller. Miriam Horn, an esteemed author, filmmaker and environmental advocate, spoke before an intimate audience at the Country Bookshelf in Bozeman on Tuesday night…...
'It's home': 394-acre ranch protected in Madison County
3+ week, 6+ day ago (678+ words) The 394-acre Robison Ranch was placed into a conservation easement. MCALLISTER—A 394-acre working ranch has been permanently dedicated to agricultural production in Madison County. The Robinson Ranch was placed under a voluntary conservation easement through a partnership with the…...
Bird-tracking tech challenges status quo
4+ week, 21+ hour ago (1803+ words) Male American kestrel with a completed Motus tag after being caught in a nest box. Male kestrels will help incubate eggs approximately 25% of the time. A Wilson’s phalarope took to the skies in north-central Montana in the early hours of…...