The importance of regenerative ranching to save grassland ecosystems By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST An hour and a half east of Great Falls lies the...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST The Endangered Species Act was one of the first times we as a nation aspired to extend rights to other...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST The surrounding white-capped, gray-ribbed mountains swallowed the late summer sun like a piece of lemon drop candy. Darkness crept from...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST This past October, I was invited to go hunting with family and friends at the American Prairie Reserve. We stayed...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST In 1964, a landmark conservation bill called the Wilderness Act passed in Congress, protecting 112 million acres of pristine land...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Managing wolves or any animal is a dicey subject. Some people want wolves protected and kept on the Endangered Species...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST One late August evening years ago, I worked for the U.S. Forest Service and was stationed at Marias Pass between...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST Years ago, two friends and I were hiking in the far northwestern corner of Glacier National Park. It was early...
By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST There’s an old Aesop fable about a wolf wandering the hillsides and valleys when it comes across a robust mastiff....
Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission targets mountain lion numbers By Benjamin Alva Polley EBS COLUMNIST I’ve been working and recreating in the forests and mountains of...