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Beartooth Humane Alliance

4 The Love Of Animals

I love this promotional video from the folks at Beartooth Humane Alliance in Montana! Beartooth Humane Alliance originally appeared on 4 The Love of Animals on September 9, 2010. Tags: events people helping animals. A great sense of humor, and a good cause too!

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Is it humane to mark turtle shells with paint

Reddit Animals

Every year on our camping trip to Crystal lake Montana we go catching turtles because it’s just a really fun family tradition, normally one of my cousins would bring nail polish and we mark our initials on the shell so we can know if we catch the same ones years after.

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A Snowflake’s Chance

10,000 Birds

The species that calls western Montana home is the black cottonwood, while plains and narrowleaf cottonwood call the rest of the state home. Humans have not helped. The result is a slow retreat of the cottonwoods, not readily noticed by a human with a human lifespan and attention-span unless we know what to look for.

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Noxious: Montana’s Battle With Spotted Knapweed, and What Birders Can Do

10,000 Birds

The state of Montana is very firm on the subject of spotted knapweed, and the closely related diffuse knapweed and Russian knapweed. Spotted knapweed arrived in Montana in the 1920s, most likely in a batch of alfalfa seed or perhaps on the creep down from western Canada, where it may have come ashore in the ballast of ships.

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Osprey Cam

10,000 Birds

One of the interesting things about web cams is that as they foster familiarity, they also favor the familiar human urge to impose narrative. One of the interesting things about web cams is that as they foster familiarity, they also favor the familiar human urge to impose narrative. We’ll see how it goes.

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A Most Remarkable Book

10,000 Birds

It involves plate tectonics; and the separation of North America from South America and their eventual reconnection; and the end of the Cretaceous Era thanks to a big asteroid, and the movements of animals, including humans, in response to all of those things. Well, I know of one such guy, anyway. With abundant roadkill (1.3

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Introducing the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

10,000 Birds

One of the admirable things about Montana is how it contains prime examples of not one, but two iconic North American landscapes. But eastern Montana contains the equally though differently stunning high plains, a world unto itself with very different wildlife meeting very different challenges.

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