Dead on the tracks: Train-related Grizzly mortalities rise as solutions stagnate
For decades, the freight trains trundling over Marias Pass toward Glacier National Park and the Great Bear Wilderness along a 206-mile stretch of tracks between Shelby and Trego have posed a threat to...
31 Okt 202321min
Dodging development: Why a conservation group wants to buy a mine
The Greater Yellowstone Coalition recently announced it had raised $6.25 million to buy out Crevice Mining Group’s 1,368 acres, claims and water rights just north of Yellowstone National Park’s border...
24 Okt 202314min
Dropped deal: Holland Lake Lodge owner nixes controversial expansion plans
On Oct. 13, news broke that the owner of Holland Lake Lodge has decided to cancel his controversial expansion and upgrade plans at the resort. He’s ending his partnership with a large Utah-based resor...
17 Okt 202319min
Chuck Black becomes most recent Montanan to win Federal Duck Stamp Contest
It was a chance encounter with a northern pintail drake that made Chuck Black’s lifelong dream come true. That dream: to win the Federal Duck Stamp art contest and have his painting in the pocket of e...
10 Okt 202350min
Fear and intimidation: FWP wardens detail turmoil within agency
In late September the Legislative Audit Division released a report investigating Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Enforcement Division. The audit documented a division riddled with morale problems and d...
5 Okt 202321min
12k acres in 12 hours: How the Paradise wildfire quickly grew to threaten the town
A little over a month ago, the world watched in horror as fast-moving flames leveled the idyllic oceanside town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The fire had started just that day but winds ...
21 Sep 202334min
Has the battle been won? Final Badger Two-Medicine oil lease relinquished
On September 1, the U.S. Interior Department announced that the last energy lease in the Badger-Two Medicine area had been relinquished. This piece of ground surrounded by the Blackfeet Indian Reserva...
14 Sep 202320min
Where will bears be next? Study projects Grizzly movements
If you were a grizzly on the move, where would you go and how would you get there? As the federally protected bears roam farther each year beyond their recovery zones, more Montana communities are see...
7 Sep 202321min
