(Reprinted from Montana Outdoors July-August 2010) Over the past six years, 140 trumpeter swans have been reared and released in the Blackfoot Valley. Now the majestic birds face power lines, illegal shooting, and other dangers as they try to return home. By Nick Gevock Louie Bouma didn’t know it at the time, but his effort [...]
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Hundreds of thousands of Snow Geese stage at Montana’s Freezout Lake each spring on their northward journey. The Long-billed Curlew, an icon of the American West, proudly performs its undulating breeding flights across our extensive grasslands. Male Sage Grouse dance and drum for mates each spring on leks scattered throughout our sagebrush landscape. Common Loons [...]
USFWS and Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have worked with private landowners to reintroduce this rare wetland bird.
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