Latest news from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks :.Ben Pierce | July 28, 2011
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – At the turn of the 20th century, visitors here arrived via train at the Northern Pacific Railway station in Gardiner. They came in great numbers from St. Louis and Boston and San Francisco, across the country and beyond, to witness the marvels of the world’s first national park. Many visitors would [...]
Ben Pierce | July 21, 2011
Steve Gehman’s first job as a wildlife biologist landed him in the middle of some of the richest grizzly bear habitat in North America. Fresh out of graduate school at Oregon State University, Gehman took a job documenting wildlife activity near Gardiner on the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park. It was on those rugged [...]
Ben Pierce | July 15, 2011
For 15 long years I’d managed to thoroughly enjoy the Madison River without ever setting foot in its flows at Three Dollar Bridge. “What?!” my friend Marie Stull said as we drove Highway 287 south from Ennis on Thursday hoping to catch the salmonfly hatch. “Where the hell have you been fishing?” “McAtee, Raynolds Pass,” [...]
Ben Pierce | July 14, 2011
CAMERON — Erik Carr likes his fishing reports early and his eggs over easy, with a side of hash browns. “We get the fishing guides in at the counter,” said Carr, owner of Main Street Overeasy, while fly-fishing the Madison River on Tuesday. “We get the good news and the bad news. We get the [...]
Ben Pierce | July 8, 2011
I feel like a kid again, pedaling a single speed bike down a county road just outside Viroqua, Wisconsin. There’s a spring creek along the road, one I fished with friends a couple of days ago. Every so often I catch a glimpse of its flows through the roadside thicket. I’ve got my fly rod [...]
Ben Pierce | July 7, 2011
Darryl and Sally Lownsbery like to explore the little dots on the map, the ones a bit off the beaten path, the good stuff. Vacationing in Montana from Conestoga, Pa., those dots led the Lownsberys from Yellowstone National Park through 15-foot-deep snow tunnels atop Beartooth Pass to Natural Bridge Falls on the Boulder River. With [...]
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