Critter News

JUNE 14, 2010

A mountain goat study in Glacier National Park has been suspended following the deaths of two goats after they were shot with tranquilizer darts. 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.

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Mountain Goats Goats Montana Killing 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2014

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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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Because when you disappear for two weeks in the middle of a gray Montana autumn (there’s snow on the ground as I write this from back in Missoula,) nothing quite tops coming back and telling all your friends you saw a flamingo, does it? Not quite as cool to non-birders. Apparently, this is a not-uncommon tourist request.

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Goats Montana Europe Hunting 106

Animal Person

APRIL 21, 2009

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