Drastic decline in brown trout numbers By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is seeing a significant decline and loss in recruitment...
America’s national bird suffers from a seasonal threat of lead exposure By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Imagine a hunter in western Montana late in the...
Montana reintroduces the only bird missing from its western half. By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Dawn’s first light adorned the undulating prairies northwest of Choteau,...
Fatal pneumonia outbreak from domestic sheep kills bighorn sheep. By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST In my last article, I wrote about winterkill in Wyoming’s pronghorn...
Pneumonia outbreak coupled with severe winter kills thousands of antelope By Benjamin Polley EBS COLUMNIST Thousands of pronghorn antelope make one of the longest land migrations...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST A century ago, we didn’t have the foresight to realize Yellowstone, like many national parks, needed to be bigger. The...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Each spring, a blizzard of snow geese migrates along the Pacific Flyway from wintering range in California’s Central Valley to...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST An elk saunters onto a highway in that ecotone between night and day. A car’s high beams breach the rise....
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST What comes to mind when you think of Montana? A vast sky where sun and clouds eternally play the game...
Who wins, bears or humans? By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS CONTRIBUTOR Imagine a few years from now, on an April day north of Yellowstone National Park....