Loved to death: Groups look to curb congestion on the Madison River
What’s Montana’s most loved river? The Smith? The Yellowstone? The Bitterroot? Well, if you measure love by usage it’s most likely the Madison. Given angling pressure on the river, with rafts as prol...
15 Sep 202215min
50 years later: The past, present and future of the Scapegoat Wilderness
This year the Scapegoat Wilderness marks its 50th anniversary. The 240,000-acre wilderness makes up the southern portion of 1.6-million acre Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex and includes some great bac...
8 Sep 202232min
Badlands and barbed wire: Conservationists re-wild Montana's prairies and pronghorn
It might surprise some to learn that Montana’s largest National Wildlife Refuge doesn’t contain a single mountain. Instead all 1.1 million acres of the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge, or ...
1 Sep 202228min
Digging in: Paleontologist studies the distant past, and our troubled future
Inside a trench the length of a football field, against the mesmerizing backdrop of the Rocky Mountain Front lay a scattering of granite-hued bone fragments, each exposed for the first time after some...
25 Aug 202225min
Dental data: What teeth can tell us about how Montana mammals age
When we talk about wildlife data, age is one of the first things biologists look to for understanding the health of animal populations and how management actions may affect trends. Age is also often t...
18 Aug 202219min
Buffalo commons: American Prairie gets greenlighted for BLM grazing
In 2001, American Prairie made an appearance in Montana with the goal to stitch together private and public lands in Eastern Montana to create a large grassland reserve. By buying ranches from willing...
11 Aug 202225min
Bird is the word: FWP pilots bird banding station at Spring Meadow Lake
This summer, in an urban state park on the westside of Helena, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has been conducting a very visible research project. One that includes colorful birds, excited biologists ...
4 Aug 202215min
Making sense of a mauling: Fatal grizzly attack focus of new report
Roughly one year ago, Leah Davis Lokan was mauled to death in her tent by a 4-year-old male grizzly. The tragedy made international headlines and sparked conversations about how humans and bears can c...
28 Juli 202249min
