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Northwestern Outdoors Radio Wins National Award
Northwestern Outdoors Radio Wins National Award
Northwestern Outdoors Radio Wins National Award
John Kruse, the host and producer of Northwestern Outdoors Radio, received three "Excellence in Craft" awards during the Outdoor Writer's Association of America annual conference held over Memorial Day weekend in McAllen, Texas.  ...
Northwestern Outdoors Program Honored
Northwestern Outdoors Program Honored
Northwestern Outdoors Program Honored
Northwestern Outdoors Radio received first and second place Excellence in Craft awards in the category of "Best Audio" last week during the Northwest Outdoor Writer's Association annual conference that took place at the KwaTaqNuk Resort in Polson, Montana...
Glacier Bank Donates Land to the Montana Outdoor Legacy Fundation
Glacier Bank Donates Land to the Montana Outdoor Legacy Fundation
Glacier Bank Donates Land to the Montana Outdoor Legacy Fundation
(Helena, MT) – Glacier Bank has donated a 30 acre Harbor Village property along the Flathead River near Bigfork to Montana’s Outdoor Legacy Foundation.   Montana’s Outdoor Legacy Foundation (formerly Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Foundation) works to maintain and grow access to public lands in order to preserve the great outdoor experience that makes Montana unique...
Service Announces Availability of the Final Revised Recovery Plan for the Black-footed Ferret
Service Announces Availability of the Final Revised Recovery Plan for the Black-footed Ferret
Service Announces Availability of the Final Revised Recovery Plan for the Black-footed Ferret
DENVER--The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is announcing the availability of the Black-footed ferret Revised Recovery Plan (Plan). The Black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes) (ferret) was historically found throughout the Great Plains, mountain basins, and semi-arid grasslands of North America wherever prairie dogs occurred...
USFWS Reopens Public Comment Period for Proposal to List the Western Yellow-Billed Cuckoo as a Threatened Species
USFWS Reopens Public Comment Period for Proposal to List the Western Yellow-Billed Cuckoo as a Threatened Species
USFWS Reopens Public Comment Period for Proposal to List the Western Yellow-Billed Cuckoo as a Threatened Species
Sacramento, Calif – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is reopening the public comment period for 60 days for the proposal to list the western distinct population segment of the yellow-billed cuckoo as a Threatened Species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)...
Red Shale Fire Update – August 28, 2013
Red Shale Fire Update – August 28, 2013
Red Shale Fire Update – August 28, 2013
The following information is from the U.S.Forest Service: The fire perimeter remains within the 1988 Gates Park Fire perimeter. It is working its way up Frazier Creek and Route Creek where it crossed to the east of the North Fork Sun River in the Bob Marshall Wilderness...
Working With Nature: Beaver Dam Flow Devices
Working With Nature: Beaver Dam Flow Devices
Working With Nature: Beaver Dam Flow Devices
I think everyone would agree that beavers are an important part of our ecosystem....unless they'damming your creek or canal and/or flooding your property. Used to be you had one option to deal with nature's little engineer...destroy the dam...
Northwestern Outdoorsman Joins the K96 Line-Up
Northwestern Outdoorsman Joins the K96 Line-Up
Northwestern Outdoorsman Joins the K96 Line-Up
John Kruse, host of the Northwestern Outdoorsman, assures me that 5am is not too early for outdoor enthusiasts to be up and tuned in on a Sunday morning, so that's when we're airing his weekly 1-hour program on K96fm. The show highlights hunting, fishing and other recreational activities in Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon...
Bears
Bears
Bears
Just a few years ago, this would have been a rare sight, but farmers and ranchers  are seeing more bears roaming the prairie here in the Golden Triangle. Brad Birch spotted these two on April 17, just a couple of miles west of Conrad near the Ron Warwick place. Learn...
Whoo You Lookin’ At? Owl Cam Goes Live
Whoo You Lookin’ At? Owl Cam Goes Live
Whoo You Lookin’ At? Owl Cam Goes Live
Bird watchers around the world have a rare opportunity to study the development of a new family of Long-Eared Owls, thanks to a new "owl cam" set up by the Owl Research Institute in Charlo. Researcher Denver Holt tells the Associated Press he has banded over 1700 of the birds and found over 225 nests in Montana, but this will be his first chance to study the nocturnal birds' child-rearin