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What Montana foragers want people to know before eating wild food
4+ hour ago (301+ words) MONTANA " As grocery prices continued to strain family budgets across Montana, some people in western Montana turned to foraging as a way to save money. In Missoula's Greenough Park, edible greens, flowers and mushrooms were growing naturally along wooded trails....
Thousands of axolotls abandoned after Minecraft, Fortnite boom
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (1062+ words) Thousands of axolotls are being bought as pets before being dumped after their popularity exploded due to games like Minecraft, Roblox and Fortnite, it has been warned. Rescue centers say they are seeing a worrying surge in salamanders being sold…...
Newly hatched penguins weigh less than chocolate bars
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (345+ words) Three gentoo penguin chicks hatched at Edinburgh Zoo on Wednesday weighing around 98g at birth. They are roughly the weight of a bar of soap " or less than a standard bar of chocolate. Video shows an adorable young chick huddling with…...
James Brown: Benefiting Montana's schools and public lands with responsible exchanges
2+ week, 6+ day ago (689+ words) The Owl Research Institute (ORI) provides a live cam and wee" The City of Great Falls announced a street sweeping schedule" Montana State Trust Lands " roughly 5 million acres of forests, rangelands and agricultural parcels " help fund education throughout the state....
Rare otter triplets born at zoo give hope for endangered breed
3+ week, 6+ day ago (663+ words) Conservationists are celebrating the birth of giant otter triplets at a Chester Zoo in the U. K. " bringing fresh hope one of the world's most endangered species can be saved from extinction. The adorable trio of pups are the first of their…...
Montana FWP struggles with more hunters as there are fewer private lands to hunt
4+ week, 15+ hour ago (1140+ words) Montana's millions of acres of private land offer some excellent hunting opportunities'the only catch is gaining the landowner's permission to hunt. Much like the current U. S. economy, Montana's most-prized hunter access program is facing a K-shaped conundrum. On the one hand,…...
Montana bison kill site's abandonment tied to drought, cultural hunting shift
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (1498+ words) Scenic views of First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park, Ulm, MT. This National Historic Landmark has one of the largest buffalo jumps in North America and is also known for its pictographs and petroglyphs. For about 700 years, Native American hunters…...
Frogs from around the world hop into the Museum of the Rockies
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (590+ words) A frog sits on a branch in the "Frogs: A Chorus of Colors" exhibit at the MOR on Feb. 7. Over a hundred frogs from across the globe clung to leaves and branches while visitors leaned in close to watch them…...
BLM wants American Prairie's bison kicked off Montana grazing leases
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (1584+ words) American Prairie on Dec. 8 announced it had relocated 45 bison from its conservation herd to tribes in Montana and Washington. Overruling the past decisions of its own field managers and Resource Management Plan, the Bureau of Land Management is proposing to…...
Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge: Where biodiversity thrives
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (303+ words) One of the most biodiverse wetland habitats in the West, Red Rock Lakes Wilderness is a testament to the benefits of protected habitat. West of Yellowstone National Park and just north of the Montana-Idaho border, the Red Rock Lakes Wilderness…...