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One-eyed Wolverine Caught On Camera
Kalon Baughan is a man on a mission. In partnership with Defenders and the research and education organization Wild Things Unlimited, he’s been working hard as a citizen scientist to document wildlife...
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Building Bridges for Wildlife
Imagine you’re a bear. You’ve spent most of your life ambling through the forest, munching on green plants and scrumptious insects, taking care of your family, just minding your own business. Then one...
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Tribes Help Wildlife Cross the Road
Kylie Paul, Rockies and Plains Representative Wildlife overpass on Highway 93 through the Flathead Indian Reservation The Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana is home to an abundance of...
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Kylie Paul, Rockies and Plains Representative News of wolverines, like the animal itself, tends to be scarce. So I was thrilled to see Gulo gulo pop its head up in the Denver Post a couple weeks ago....
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Fishing for Answers with Citizen Science
Kylie Paul, Rockies and Plains Representative Oddly enough, fishers don’t eat fish. Instead, these solitary and highly elusive members of the weasel family prey on creatures such as showshoe hare,...
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Great News For Wolverines!
Kylie Paul, Rockies and Plain Representative (c)Anna Yu/istockphoto Wolverines are enigmatic, wide-ranging members of the weasel family (think otters, mink, and marten) that exist in high-altitude...
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Wolverine Sightings
Kylie Paul, Rockies & Plains Representative Russell Talmo, Wolverine Project Assistant It’s not every day that you get to see a wolverine. In fact, wolverine sightings are extremely rare, even if...
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Going Wild for Wolverines out West
Kylie Paul, Rockies & Plains Representative Wolverines may finally be getting the federal protections they need. In response to well over a decade of successful legal efforts by Defenders and a...
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Putting Prairie Dogs Back On The Map
Kylie Paul, Rockies & Plains Representative Yip. YIP! YIPPPP!!! Walking through a healthy prairie dog colony is a noisy affair. Alarm calls from many individuals alert the colony to an invader’s...
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A Soaring Success: Montana Wildlife Crossings
Donated flight provides bird’s-eye view of innovative highway projects. Kylie Paul, Rockies & Plains Representative If we could all see as eagles do, the need for habitat conservation would be a...
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Lynx and Snowshoe Hare: The Color of Survival
Climate change is impacting wildlife and their habitats across the globe. Canada lynx, the threatened mysterious cat of northern climes, is not immune to such impacts. Numerous studies predict lynx...
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Time to Protect Canada Lynx Habitat in the Lower 48!
I would be very surprised if any of you – even those living in northern states — have ever seen a Canada lynx. I’ve never seen one, despite working on wildlife conservation in northern states for...
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Flagging Fences For Grouse
The tiny town of Winifred is in east-central Montana, an hour north of Lewistown and south of the rugged and beautiful Missouri Breaks National Monument. It is, as some people might describe it, in the...
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Gathering Information One Hair at a Time
Last month Russ Talmo, our Rockies and Plains Field Technician, and I scrambled through dense undergrowth and up steep hills, post-holing through thigh deep snow in some areas, over a couple days of...
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Help Wildlife Survive Winters in our National Forests
New rules governing over-snow vehicles in national forests need to better balance the needs of wildlife and recreation. While it’s full-on summer across the country, it’s time to think about winter for...
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Watch Out For Wildlife
I imagine if you’re anything like us, you’re looking for wildlife wherever you go, whether it’s at a national park, a city boulevard, or your own backyard. This seeking takes on a different purpose...
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Wolverines in Lower-48 Denied Protection… Again
Wolverines in the Lower 48 have had a tough go of it in the quest to list them under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Conservation organizations started requesting protection for wolverines in 1994,...
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Marking the Way for Sage-Grouse
As policymakers and land managers struggle to plan sage-grouse conservation on millions of acres of public lands in the West, the bird itself is struggling to survive a multitude of threats on the...
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Wolverine Watchers
No matter where you live, there are some types of wildlife you can see almost every day. But some wildlife species are rare enough (or shy enough of humans) that you may share their landscape, but...
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Little Fox on the Prairie
At a mere five pounds and not much larger than a housecat, the swift fox (Vulpes velox) is the smallest member of the dog family in North America. They were once common throughout the western...
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