conservation

CAMERON – As students’ structured school days are about to melt into summer freedom, the urge to satisfy the itch to spend the fleeting days outside is nearly irresistible.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Friday, April 19, the National Junior Duck Stamp contest was held at Patuxent National Wildlife Refuge in Patuxent, Maryland. 

EDITOR’S NOTE  – This is the first of a two-part series looking at the local impacts of the WOTUS rule changes. Part II will be printed next week.

MADISON COUNTY—Beavers may not be the primary animal that visitors to Big Sky Country come to see, but perhaps they deserve a little more attention.

ENNIS—Montana has 58 conservation districts, but the Madison Conservation District (MCD) recently joined a list of a dozen or fewer to put a strategic plan in place.

HELENA - Montana’s Republican Senator Steve Daines and Democratic Senator Jon Tester joined congressional representatives and conservationists for a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, November 29 to call for the permanent reauthorization of a program first established by President Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

SHERIDAN—The Ruby Habitat Foundation does a lot of things, but there are some workings of nature that they simply can’t control. 

MADISON COUNTY—Thanks to a collaborative project lasting over a year, westslope Cutthroat Trout (WCT) will soon have access to a large part of their historical habitat they haven’t seen in a very long time.