Nature provides it all with NATIVE SHRUBS IN YOUR GARDEN by Kathy Ross Tanagers, grosbeak, solitaires, chickadees, vireos, woodpeckers, robins. In a small dense patch of native serviceberry, chokecherry, dogwood, mountain maple, and juniper I have watched with delight on a late summer afternoon, song birds feeding on the berries and the insects of these…
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Lewis Young, a Lifetime of Conservation Work by Kay Mitchell At the FAS General meeting on March 8, we honored and presented a Lifetime Conservation Achievement Recognition to Lewis Young. Conservationists from all over the state of Montana who have worked with Lewis on projects sent photos and testimonials about Lewis’s hard work, knowledge and…
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While it might make us feel great to both keep or consumerism running rampant and then recycle, the truth is not so straightforward. Often recycling simply doesn’t work like we’d hope and we end up doing more “wish-cycling” than anything else. What to do? Our friends over at Climate Smart Glacier Country are hosting a…
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Of Ravens, Wolves, and People presented by John Marzluff Ravens are known to scavenge from wolves and people, but the degree to which they exploit these and other sources of food has not been studied in detail. In 2019, Matthias Loretto and John began tagging ravens in Yellowstone National Park with long-lasting GSM transmitters. After…
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by Lewis Young Artificial outdoor lighting at night can cause light pollution. What is light pollution? It is generally defined as unwanted consequences of outdoor lighting and includes such effects as sky glow (brightening of the sky), light trespass (light reaching areas where it’s not needed or wanted), glare (excessive brightness causing visual discomfort and…
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By Denny Olson In what now seems like a geologic epoch ago, I was going to graduate school on a teaching assistantship, working summers at my first interpretive naturalist job in a Minnesota state park. The park’s main attraction was a beautiful gorge with rapids and waterfalls, but there was also an 8,000 acre wild…
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