Tag: wildlife

  • Clearwater Valley Bear Smart Wraps Up Year 2 Thanks to Community

    Clearwater Valley Bear Smart Wraps Up Year 2 Thanks to Community

    by Alan Davis, Clearwater Valley Bear Smart It’s a wrap! For two years in a row, the Seeley Lake area avoided any significant bear events.  The Clearwater Valley Bear Smart […]

  • Celebrating 2023 Accomplishments

    Celebrating 2023 Accomplishments

    By Blackfoot Challenge staff Last year marked the Blackfoot Challenge’s 30th anniversary as an organized, community-driven conservation organization. All of you who support and take part in our work are […]

  • Hunting in Grizzly Country
  • Tracking Rare Carnivores

    Tracking Rare Carnivores

    Hear from Luke Lamar of Swan Valley Connections, who helps lead a collaborative project to monitor populations of rare forest carnivores like Canada lynx, wolverines, fishers, and more. SVC and […]

  • Celebrating 2022 Outcomes

    Celebrating 2022 Outcomes

    By Blackfoot Challenge staff Hard to believe it’s already two months into 2023.  We don’t want to let too much of this year roll by without recognizing all of our […]

  • On Horseback in Bear Country

    On Horseback in Bear Country

    Interview with Jack Rich of Rich’s Montana Guest Ranch Interview by Seth Wilson The following is excerpted from Carnivore Damage Prevention News, Issue 24. The complete edition is available online […]

  • Bears visiting the classroom

    Bears visiting the classroom

    Story and photo by Jean Pocha, Pathfinder staff.  OVANDO – “There’s three kinds of bears in Montana, black, brown and very, very brown,” chimed a young student at the Ovando […]

  • Riding the Fences

    Riding the Fences

    Riding the Fences: Listening and learning as a means to safely live with grizzly bears Written by Jessianne Castle of the Grizzly Bear Collective. This is an excerpt from the […]

  • Potomac rancher Denny Iverson shares the Blackfoot wolf experience with Colorado

    Potomac rancher Denny Iverson shares the Blackfoot wolf experience with Colorado

    This November, Colorado residents will be voting on a wolf reintroduction ballot proposition. If passed, the proposition would charge the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission with reintroducing wolves to the […]

  • Meet the Blackfoot Challenge Range Riders

    Meet the Blackfoot Challenge Range Riders

    It’s summertime in the Blackfoot, and that means our team of range riders are back in the saddle. Every summer when cows are put out to graze their summer pastures […]