"Poachers are stealing from hunters, but they are stealing from all of us, whether you hunt or not, because wildlife belongs to all of us."
- Ted McDermott
Prosecutors across Montana say poaching cases are hard to win 鈥 and even harder to prove.聽
- DAVID ERICKSON
"Poachers are stealing from hunters, but they are stealing from all of us, whether you hunt or not, because wildlife belongs to all of us."
- DAVID ERICKSON
There are big poaching busts in Montana every year. Here's a list of some of the most heinous cases in the state's recent history.
- Ted McDermott
Lee Enterprises sought poaching data and information about the number and nature of unsolved poaching cases. FWP indicated that it does not keep such data or keeps incomplete data.
- DAVID ERICKSON
From a "thrill kill" rampage on deer to nine trophy black bears, Lou Royce has investigated many poaching incidents. But it's the unsolved cases that haunt him.
- BRETT FRENCH
"People aren't bragging about the drugs that they're moving across the state, but they're bragging about animals that they just have killed.鈥
Glacier National Park had never recorded a fatal grizzly bear attack since its creation in 1910. On Aug. 13, 1967, two bears fatally mauled two young women camped miles apart.
Endangered Species Act protection for grizzlies could end or be revised by January under a new FWS plan in response to demands by Montana, Idaho and Wyoming leaders.
Adding to 907F鈥檚 mystique and popularity with tourists, for almost half her life she has suffered from either an injury or infection that appears to have left her blind in one eye.
Beartooth Basin Summer Ski Area, 鈥渢he only strictly summer ski area in the nation,鈥 is being sold.
Brooks Falls in Alaska's Katmai National Park is the best place in the world to watch brown bears feasting on salmon as they swim upstream to spawn.
Deer 255, known for having the longest migration route in West, died in Wyoming's Red Desert. The celebrity deer was known for traveling over 200 miles during migration.聽
From the west to the east, Montanans were given a front row seat to the Aurora Borealis, also known as Northern Lights Friday night.
MONTANA UNTAMED:聽As management of the Smith River enters a new era, the river's manager talks about what's in store.聽
In early April, Lee Newspapers joined personnel from the U.S Forest Service, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, and volunteers from聽Montana Vet Program to embarked embark on a five-day trip down the river to remove and raft out the latrines, officially ushering in the new era of recreational …
A grizzly bear was filmed on April 8 in the Bears Paw Mountains, a couple of miles southeast of the southern boundary of the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation.
Addy Falgoust's job as an interpretive ranger in Yellowstone National Park has provided her many opportunities to exercise her photography skills.
Images produced by generative artificial intelligence 鈥 AI programs that create new material in response to a prompt 鈥 now often appear as realistic as actual photographs.
A video of a coyote howling from the roof of a new car at the Tucson Auto Mall has gone viral thanks to social media.
On the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, the law grapples with political uncertainty and unforeseen ecological challenges. Read our series here.
Since it was signed by President Richard Nixon on December 28, 1973, the ESA has protected more than 2,000 animals and plants, becoming one of Earth鈥檚 most far-reaching laws.
A century ago, we stocked non-native trout throughout national parks. Now native species like cutthroat trout must be transplanted in experimental habitats if they're to survive through this decade.
鈥淭he Endangered Species Act only protects that relatively small number of species that are right on the precipice of disappearing."
Getting Yellowstone National Park bison protected under the ESA might break "the stranglehold Montana has placed on recovering wild bison." But those aren't the only bison.
Guard dogs and range riders have protected people against bears for millennia. They may offer solutions for co-existing with grizzlies as the recovered trouble-maker of the West nears ESA delisting.聽
Would Arctic grayling in the Big Hole River benefit from federal protections afforded by being listed as an endangered or threatened species under the ESA? Some stakeholders don't think so.
Montana Untamed:聽Often called 鈥渢he pit-bull of environmental statutes,鈥 the ESA has given federal protection to nearly 2,000 animals and plants.
Montana Untamed:聽At play are simmering tensions between the State of Montana and the Park Service over managing the migratory bison that call Yellowstone National Park home.
As a result, the Park Service is recommending no more than 1,100 animals be removed from the population this season to ensure the herd size remains above 3,500.