Moose Monitoring: FWP study provides insight on Montana populations
Moose were nearly exterminated in Montana in the early 1900s, with their population estimated to have numbered around 100 animals. Now their populations are estimated at somewhere between 9,800 to 11,...
6 Dec 202422min
Fact vs. fiction: What Montana livestock investigators actually do, beyond 'Yellowstone'
Snow-dusted peaks towered in the background, cows lowed in the expansive rangeland and cowboys on horseback moved heifers and steers off trailers. There wasn’t a film camera in sight, but it sure look...
14 Nov 202429min
River Recreation: New advisory council seeks to help overcrowding on Montana waterways
It’s the limestone cathedral of the Smith, the caddis hatch on the Madison, the rushing emerald water of the Flathead that draw more and more people to the arterial waterways of Montana’s wild country...
31 Okt 202422min
The Wide Open: New podcast untangles the enduring legacy of Endangered Species Act
The series starts with five billboards outside Livingston, Montana and from there it winds through the half-century saga of the Endangered Species Act. The Wide Open, podcast and radio series from Mon...
17 Okt 202443min
New buyers eye Holland Lake Lodge deal
Two years after the public learned of a controversial plan to drastically expand Holland Lake Lodge in western Montana’s Swan Valley, a new suitor is trying to purchase the historic lakeside lodge in ...
3 Okt 202427min
People Problems: Grizzly bear hunting, overcrowding and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
The 16th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem held at Big Sky recently covered a wealth of topics about the region, which includes southwestern Montana. Brett French, ou...
19 Sep 202423min
Ruffled feathers: Blackfoot-Clearwater owl nest pits FWP vs. photographers
For at least a decade, a pair of great gray owls have made their nest each spring in the top of a broken cottonwood tree trunk on the Blackfoot-Clearwater Game Range northeast of Missoula. They fledge...
5 Sep 202417min
Milk River runs dry: St. Mary Canal failure disastrous for Hi-Line irrigators
Next year, for the first time in more than 100 years, farmers and ranchers across Montana’s Hi-Line region will face a summer without irrigation water. Normally, water from the St. Mary River is diver...
22 Aug 202427min
