Tag: Montana

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January 20, 2023

Organization plans to restore bison-driven ecosystem to Montana

A Montana nonprofit organization is importing bison on land it has purchased with the goal of restoring the natural ecosystem that the creatures once engineered in the region. The nonprofit,...

October 3, 2022

JWM: Snowy weather affects mule deer survival in the winter

In northwest Montana, mule deer face snowy conditions that impact what they eat and how well they survive the region’s cold winters. Some subpopulations are partially migratory. They forage abundant,...

September 19, 2022

Q&A: Can hunters help monitor scavengers?

A video of bobcats and coyotes tearing into a bloody, rotting carcass isn’t usually inspirational. But when researchers Katharine Stone and Michael McTee were looking to learn more about the...

July 14, 2022

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

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...

April 4, 2022

JWM: Prey, harvest and competition dictate wolf pack size

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...

March 10, 2022

Yellowstone aims to cull 900 bison this year

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,...

February 15, 2022

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

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...

December 17, 2021

Watch: Translocation effort returns swift foxes to reservation

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...

October 4, 2021

Bison grazing doesn’t impact grassland bird diversity

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...

September 23, 2021

USFWS to review status of western wolves

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...