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    BIRDS

    Snow geese at Freezeout Lake WMA, Rocky Mountain Front in background Short eared owl Meadowlark, Montana state bird
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    Blueberry bushes

    We just planted six feet high blueberry bushes near our garden in Zone 4 of SW Montana. Bushes came from northern Oregon. We are requesting advice from any others who have experience with nurturing blueberry bushes and protecting them from birds, deer, wind, and other weather. What say you HT...
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    How cold at your place?

    This morning the photo shows minus 34 F on the thermometer. A minute later it was minus 38.
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    Adventure in the BOB

    Just returned from a four-day backpack adventure into the heart of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, over Headquarters Pass, up the North Fork of the Sun River, through Gates Park to Wrong Creek, then over Washboard Reef, out Olney Creek to West Fork Teton River trailhead. Headquarters Pass...
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    HAPPY ST PATRICKS DAY!

    May you escape the gallows, avoid distress, And be as healthy as a trout. Irish Wish
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    Military Veterans, Gone But Not Forgotten

    Lloyd Darrah, Arlin Wass, and South Meadow Lake Lloyd Darrah, close friend and fellow Vietnam helicopter pilot, was our unit commander when we enjoyed Montana National Guard aviation training excursions. One such training event took place high up in the Tobacco Root Mountains. We launched...
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    Montana FWP should improve elk management

    Colorado being a state seventy percent the size of Montana and including public land comprising only about seventy-five percent of that held by Montana, yet Colorado can sustain an elk population more than twice that of Montana … even before the proposed elk population reduction by shoulder...
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    Adventure in Geezerland Lewis Lake

    Late August trip to Yellowstone found us at Lewis Lake Campground with our kayaks. Slight morning breeze kept us cool as we began paddling around the south end lakeshore. Deer and eagles were viewed near the shore as we approached the fumarole meadow on the west side. We stopped to play in...
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    Iconic Montana panorama

    Freezeout Lake with Rocky Mountain Front backdrop. March 23, 2022, welcomed 32,000 snow geese and 1800 white tundra swans, as well as a myriad of other bird species. On a trail at Freezeout Lake we met Gary & Judy Matson, founders of Matson Laboratory which ages wildlife teeth and has been...
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    Joe Gutkoski, RIP.

    A renown public lands, wilderness, wild rivers, and wildlife advocate and hunter, Joe Gutkoski has passed away at age 94 years young. Joe exemplified the image of mountain man public land hunter and protector of Montana's wild places and wild critters. I recall a story of him biding his time...
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    Chief Joseph - who, what, and when.

    Another very interesting battlefield is less travelled and a bit out of the way near Chinook, MT. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce proclaimed "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever" at this site now the Nez Perce National Historic Park, the Bear Paw Battlefield. The park...
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    West Gallatin River corridor at risk

    Gallatin County Department of Planning & Community Development  311 W. Main, Rm. 108  Bozeman, MT 59715 Phone (406) 582-3130  Fax (406) 582-3135  [email protected] NOTICE OF FLOODPLAIN PERMIT APPLICATION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Gallatin County Floodplain Administrator will...
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    Be extra careful out there ... hunting season is approaching.

    Injured hiker rescued from Gates of the Mountains Wilderness THOM BRIDGE, Independent Record Lewis and Clark Search and Rescue and Two Bear Air recovered an older couple stranded in the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness northeast of Helena on Tuesday afternoon. The married couple was hiking...
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    Bison Restoration Project DOA

    "A proposed “test project” to restore bison to the UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge has been submitted to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks for consideration under the state’s new guidelines, but will not be considered due to litigation." Billings Gazette May 13, 2020 Unfortunately, Montana...
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    Stimulus package music

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    Shelter-in Places

    This shelter-inn place requires snowshoe transport to reach. We spent the past few quiet days here.
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    Stupid Armchair Wildlife Management

    Another story of some "armchair" wildlife management "expert" introducing a potentially disastrous sub-species into the elk population on the Rocky Mountain Front. Please call TIPMONT if you hear or know anything about this stupid act...
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    Man kills grizzly in self-defense, keeps claws

    Moral of story: You'd better report it soon, as it will return to "stalk" you. https://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/2020/01/18/man-kills-grizzly-self-defense-keeps-claws-memento/4512910002/
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    Antlerless Elk only in final week

    After weeks of finding absolutely no sign of elk where they pass through most years, less than a mile into my Nov 25th Monday morning hunt, there they were ... two bulls less than one hundred yards above the trail, broadside, with one just staring at me taunting me to shoot. I chambered a...
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    Another silly pet peeve

    When reading a thread or a post, it is so often helpful to know from what context the Hunt Talker is posting. At least location should be a must in posting on this forum. So many times in attempting to decipher a message, merely knowing what state or province is the context helps a great deal...

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