Critter News
DECEMBER 8, 2009
This article describes the devastation being inflicted on Montana's wildlife by serial poachers. Brian Golie, FWP game warden in Wolf Creek,classifies serial poachers as people who target trophy animals and will do anything to kill them. In some instances people kill an animal and cut off its head for the antlers.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2012
One of the admirable things about Montana is how it contains prime examples of not one, but two iconic North American landscapes. I’ve spent a lot of time in, and done a lot of writing about, the Rocky Mountains, their beauty, their climate moods, and the wildlife that lives here.
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Critter News
JUNE 14, 2010
The University of Montana study, aimed at exploring the effects of climate change on mountain goats, got under way this month with preliminary field work in the Many Glacier Valley. Tags: animal research montana. After meeting with park managers on Wednesday, researchers were allowed to resume their field work.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
Jennifer Ackerman brings a sense of curiosity and wonder to her material, whether she’s interviewing evolutionary ecologist Christopher Clark about the mechanics of an owl’s silent flight or looking for Northern Pygmy Owl nests in Montana with a team from the Owl Research Institute.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2017
Swanson Wildlife Health Center received an adult male Red-tailed Hawk that had been found on Cornell University’s campus. A few days later the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology contacted the Wildlife Health Center to ask if they’d received any red-tails recently. Last Saturday, the Janet L. Their fears were confirmed.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2012
We’ve had a lot of discussion recently on the pros and cons of interfering with ‘nature’ on behalf of an individual animal. Not having a smart phone, I called a friend in New York and had him Google up some wildlife rehabilitators’ numbers, but they were all out of service. Animal Control was on the way.
10,000 Birds
MAY 4, 2012
Also ferrets are curious animals, explorers, willing to take risks; they’ve had to be. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. We’ll do this until the dawn breaks over eastern Montana. The ferret raises her head again — up periscope — and hesitates. She looks at us, then ducks down, then back up, as we draw closer.
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