Latest news from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks :.Ben Pierce | June 28, 2010
Here’s some video I shot last Tuesday on a return trip from Silver Gate in the northeast corner of Yellowstone National Park. This bear was spotted across Soda Butte Creek near the confluence with Pebble Creek. The bear came out of the surrounding timber and was digging around in the soil in the meadow on [...]
Ben Pierce | June 24, 2010
SILVER GATE – Set just out of view of Highway 212 and a stone’s throw from the border of Yellowstone National Park, Silver Falls tumbles for more than 100 feet from a limestone cliff into a rocky ravine. About a mile away on the far side of Soda Butte Creek, Bridal Falls spews forth from [...]
Ben Pierce | May 3, 2010
Every year it seems to be the same story … I’ve spent another winter snowboarding, skiing and fishing instead of hunkered down tying flies and filling my fly box. Sure, I tie a few midges patterns here and there to fill the gaps through the winter, but it seem inevitable that by the time the [...]
Ben Pierce | April 13, 2010
Here’s an interesting video profile produced by National Parks Magazine about Glacier National Park ranger Doug Follett. Follett, 84, has worked in Glacier for 50 years. He recalls the days when he’d attend powwows with Blackfeet Indians just outside the park’s boundaries, but insists he’s seen few changes in Glacier over the years. Follett’s family [...]
Ben Pierce | April 8, 2010
BRIDGER BOWL – One word: epic. There’s not much more to say about the last day of the Bridger Bowl ski season or the last stand of the Bridger chair lift. For 46 glorious seasons the Bridger lift ushered skiers and snowboarders to the heights of the Bridger Range with access to the North Bowl, [...]
Ben Pierce | April 1, 2010
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – It’s come to this: I’m 10 minutes from the parking lot at Mammoth Hot Springs pedaling uphill into Yellowstone on my brand new mountain bike and I feel like hell. I’ve soaked through my shirt. My legs are burning. My lower back feels like its being squeezed in a vise. My [...]
Ben Pierce | March 24, 2010
FREEZEOUT LAKE – At 6 o’clock on Sunday morning, headlights streamed off Highway 89 between Choteau and Fairfield onto the gravel road that loops around Freezeout Lake Wildlife Management Area. The prairie is quiet, save for the calls of a few snow geese rocketing overhead in a heavy gale. The headlights rumble over the washboard [...]
Ben Pierce | March 19, 2010
Here’s a video fishing report from the Madison River on Thursday afternoon. I headed out to Bear Trap Canyon under partly cloudy skies and the midges appeared along the river as soon as I reached the broad turn at Black’s Ford on Highway 84. The midges came off in waves most of the afternoon. Conditions [...]
Ben Pierce | March 18, 2010
Here’s a video from the Missoula-based Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) on the importance of conservation to preserve elk, other wildlife and their habitat for future generations. The video shows some of the many areas across the Rocky Mountain West that RMEF has worked to preserve including the 207-acre Spooner Creek parcel in Ravali County. [...]
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