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Full January-February Issue
How to Read a Tree: Learn to decipher the stories that wildlife leave behind on bark and branches. Read more >>
The Heart of Darkness: Finding wildness and wonder in the night sky. Read more >>
Weighing In On Wolves: Montana works to strike a fair and biologically sound balance between having enough of the large carnivores and having too many. Read more >>
Reading an Animal's "Fingerprints": DNA science improves fish and wildlife conservation, management, and law enforcement. Read more >>
Turf War Twist: Why mountain bluebirds have disappeared from western Montana’s valleys—and might never return. Read more >>
Problems by the Bucketful: Illegal stocking is ruining many Montana sport fisheries and aquatic systems, maybe forever. Read more >>
Bird Calls: A new online checklist program turns recreational birders into global “biological sensors.” Read more >>
Cracking the Code: Figuring out Montana’s massive trout rivers when you’re accustomed to fishing small streams. Read more >>
Sweet Surroundings: Trout are just one reason to linger along streams and rivers. Read more >>
A Fresh Approach: Tips on keeping fish tasty for the table. Read more >>
In the Clear: Despite growing lakeside development, Georgetown Lake remains healthy and full of fish—for now. Read more >>
Bedtime in the Backcountry: Tips on how to take your kids on overnight treks this summer. Read more >>
Bully Goats? Researchers try to figure out if relative newcomers to the Greater Yellowstone Area are displacing native bighorn sheep. Read more >>
Untrammeled: On its 50th anniversary, a look at the historical forces that forged the Wilderness Act, and what wildlands mean to us today. Read more >>
A Wall of Protection: A comprehensive study on bear attacks in Alaska confirms that bear pepper spray is a better defense than firearms. Read more >>
Disappearing Acts: The amazing ways that animals hide from us and each other. Read more >>
Finding a Way In: Millions of acres of public hunting land in Montana appear inaccessible. How hunters and others are figuring out ways to get there. Read more >>
Keeping the Faith: Knowing he’d been lucky beyond measure to draw two coveted tags in one year, he wasn’t going to let a little bad luck get in the way of filling them both. Read more >>
Getting There: Why going hunting can be every bit as essential as the hunt itself. Read more >>
Congress Gives Wildlife a Boost: Conservation leaders say the 2014 Farm Bill does much for Montana’s pheasants, ducks, deer, songbirds, and other grassland wildlife. Read more >>
A Hunter's Heavy Heart Over Sage-Grouse: Essay. Read more >>
Getting the Green Light: A rancher’s tips for gaining access to private land this season. Read more >>
How Freedom Feels: Essay. Read more >>
Where Are All the Elk? FWP researchers found them. Now they’re trying to figure out how to get the animals back onto public land. Read more >>
'Tis the Season To Be Counting: During the Audubon Christmas Bird Count, expert and beginner citizen-scientists tally every bird they spot in an effort to aid avian conservation. Read more >>
Standing Up for Montana: The state's effective approach to dealing with federal endangered species listing. Read more >>
Decomposition: The remarkable wildlife activity that goes into making an elk carcass disappear. Read more >>
Solving the Bitterroot Elk Mystery: How biologists and local volunteers finally figured out what was reducing the popular Ravalli County elk population. Read more >>
Plagued By Uncertainty: The locust wiped out crops and grasslands across the Great Plains during the late 19th century. Is it truly gone for good? Read more >>