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Serial Poachers Devastate Montana

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This article describes the devastation being inflicted on Montana's wildlife by serial poachers. Tags: wildlife crime fish and wildlife montana poaching us trophy hunting. It's also an insight into how serial poachers think.

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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With a hardiness that belies their delicate looks (but helps explain their phenomenal success), these pioneering pigeons are already sitting on eggs at at least one location in Montana. Hochachka noted that one had spent the winter “as far north as eastern Montana&#. Whatever they used to be, they are now a bird of Montana.

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A Birder’s Guide to U.S. Federal Public Lands

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In fact, the overwhelming majority of federal land is in just 11 western states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming). Fish and Wildlife Service : The stylized blue goose logo of the FWS is well-known to birders, as FWS manages more than 575 national wildlife refuges.

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Year of the Shrike

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For some reason, this is the year that the masked butcherbirds have been around in my corners of Montana, with as many sightings for me in 2014 as in the rest of my life (including the other three years I lived in Montana) combined. Birding Montana New York Northern Shrike' A Chipping Sparrow came up to see us once.

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A Birder’s Guide to The Wilderness Act

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Wilderness areas are managed by one of four federal agencies: the Forest Service (FS); the National Park Service (NPS); the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS); and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). At more than 15 million acres, California is the only other state with more than 5 million acres of wilderness.

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The Once and Future Oriole

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Moving to Montana was not even exotic – it was a non-possibility. I didn’t go to grad school or move to Montana until my 30s, and I didn’t see the Bullock’s Oriole until I had been in Montana almost four years. Images courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Clark’s Nutcrackers at the Top of Rocky Mountain National Park

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In the fall of 2017, my mother and favorite birding buddy visited the mountains of Montana for a fishing trip. My husband and I had limited time to see the massive park, and, like my parents in Montana, a good portion of that would be devoted to fly-fishing. I’ve been dying to see one ever since.

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