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Montana

TWS Wildlife News

Montana’s Blackfeet Tribe to use dogs to sniff out disease and contaminants

July 14, 2022

Kenneth Cook used a mallet and a chisel to crack into a pig’s skull in the gravel driveway outside his home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana. Cook planned to use the pig’s …

Joshua Rapp Learn

JWM: Prey, harvest and competition dictate wolf pack size

April 4, 2022

After decades of absence in Montana, wolves began dispersing southward from Canada and ultimately recolonized the state in the 1980s. Translocations into Yellowstone National Park and Idaho in the mid-1990s also helped the Montana population …

Cassie Ferri

Yellowstone aims to cull 900 bison this year

March 10, 2022

Yellowstone National Park has begun its annual winter removal of bison from the park’s herd in an effort to help sustain the population and reduce spread of disease to livestock, damage to private property and …

David Frey

JWM: For Montana mule deer, is migration worth the effort?

February 15, 2022

Northwestern Montana is a legendary area for mule deer. Hunters go there to seek out unusually large trophy bucks, which prowl through a more densely forested landscape than mule deer usually prefer. The deer have …

FYI News

Watch: Translocation effort returns swift foxes to reservation

December 17, 2021

The swift fox (Vulpes velox) disappeared from the landscape of the Fort Belknap Indian Community in Montana over 50 years ago, due largely to poisoning as part of a coyote (Canis latrans) eradication effort. Colorado, …

Joshua Rapp Learn

Bison grazing doesn’t impact grassland bird diversity

October 4, 2021

Well-managed cattle grazing plots have similar grassland bird diversity as prairies where bison roam in Montana. This new finding suggests fears may be overblown that bison might overgraze land in Montana when they’re fenced into …

Brielle Manzolillo

USFWS to review status of western wolves

September 23, 2021

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be completing a comprehensive status review of the gray wolf in the western U.S. after its delisting from the federal Endangered Species Act in Oct. 2020. This decision …

Conservation News

JWM: Boreal toads have become nearly extirpated in northwest Montana

June 28, 2021

A boreal toad population has become nearly extirpated in an area of western Montana that was relatively recently converted to a national wildlife refuge. “In essence, what we found in the study period was this …

Conservation News

JWM: Nonmigratory eagles suffer ‘troubling’ lead exposure

March 3, 2021

Golden eagles that spend their winters in western Montana are overwhelmingly exposed to lead contamination. “Almost the entire population has been exposed to lead,” said Robert Domenech, executive director of the Raptor View Research Institute …

Joshua Rapp Learn

WM: Puma harvest bolsters elk population in western Montana

December 11, 2020

Mountain lion predation is the main cause of death in young elk calves in western central Montana, but increased harvest on the big cats can result in larger ungulate population numbers over time. The discovery …

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