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Introducing the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge

10,000 Birds

The cottonwoods in the river bottoms echo the branching antlers of the elk that bugle among them each falls (abundant, but never enough so for Montana’s voracious hunters.) The tussocks are badgers, the stones are grouse until they fails to fly away. Even off the refuge, the ranches are by necessity few and far between.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. And for thousands of years the lizards, rodents, and birds of North America adapted to Fishers, Badgers, Wolverines, Ermines, etc. Let me tell you this: They are.