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  • Another grizzly shot in Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    Hunter shoots a rare Cabinet Mountains grizzly bear- Man shoots Cabinet Mountains grizzly. Montana FWP says it was self-defense. AP

  • Two close encounters with cougars in Montana in a month

    Ralph Maughan

    Florence, MT man rescues dad from mountain lion. By Brett French. Billings Gazette. 64 year old father probably saved when his 41 year old son shot the cougar. Earlier this month the Montana Standard reported a cougar stalking an adolescent boy who was hunting with his father southwest of Butte. The 14-year old boy shot…

  • Four Montana wolves taken on the Rocky Mountain Front

    Ralph Maughan

    Fifty out of 75 tags are now filled in Montana wolf hunt- Four wolves taken along the Front. By Karl Puckett. Great Falls Tribune Staff Writer. The article provides some detailed information, but in short three of the four wolves were shot on private land southwest of Augusta, MT in the Bean Lake area. The…

  • Schneider’s updates on Tester’s Wilderness bill

    Ralph Maughan

    Over at New West you can follow the Montana Wilderness controversy closely- Yesterday Ken Cole posted Senator Tester Betrays Montana Wilderness, a sharply critical opinion piece written by Brian Peck. Bill Schneider has been following Montana’s 30 year Wilderness controversy for some time in his columns at New West. His many updates give folks a…

  • Senator Tester Betrays Montana Wilderness

    Ken Cole

    Brian Peck Excoriates Senator Tester’s “Wilderness” Bill And The “Environmental” Groups Who Support It. He explains that the “bill would set aside just over 600,000 acres of Wilderness, withdraw current protection from nearly 250,000 acres, and require that 100,000 acres be made available for logging and roading in an already fractured landscape.” Senator Tester Betrays…

  • Grizzlies home on range – again

    Ralph Maughan

    For all those discouraged folks out there, I think this f- – – – ing wonderful! Grizzlies home on range – again. By Karl Puckett. Great Falls Tribune Staff Writer. Is anyone interested that grizzlies are abundant enough and northern Montana empty enough that grizzlies are spilling out onto the plains?

  • Albino black bear moved to Glacier National Park

    Ralph Maughan

    Move was to protect it during the general hunting season- Albino bear moved. Bozeman Chronicle.

  • October was a bad month for grizzly bears in NW Montana

    Ralph Maughan

    October is always bad; this year worse. Even so,  NW Montana grizzly mortality is low compared to that in Greater Yellowstone. It’s pretty clear to me that the Yellowstone grizzly needed to be put back on the list, just as Judge Molloy did. Fortunately, grizzly deaths are down this year in the Greater Yellowstone. Grizzly…

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