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Partnerships at Work: Celebrating 2025 Outcomes
In 2025, the Blackfoot Challenge responded to expanding community priorities with new programs – Science and Recreation Stewardship – led by new staff. A year of extreme drought tested the […]
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Birds Build Worldwide Conservation Connections
by Elaine Caton, Blackfoot Challenge Bird Program Coordinator I am sitting in a conference room in a Helena hotel, attending the fall meeting of the Western Working Group of Partners […]
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Trumpeting Success
by Elaine Caton, Blackfoot Challenge Bird Program Coordinator In early April I counted 26 trumpeter swans feeding and resting in this small ranch pond near Ovando. They included a swan […]
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Listening for the Songs of Spring
American Bittern (photo credit: ©Luke Seitz, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology) by Elaine Caton, Blackfoot Challenge Bird Program Coordinator The first time each year that I hear the three […]
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The Songs of Winter
Snow Bunting by Elaine Caton, Blackfoot Challenge Bird Program Coordinator The Blackfoot in winter is generally a quiet place, not just in levels of sound but also activity. Many animals […]
