Paul Santavy is nearing his one-year anniversary as manager of the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge in Montana, the second largest refuge in the Lower 48. He loves central and eastern ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Based on past experience, the 2021 Montana Legislature could extinguish any possibility to ...

A wildland fire is threatening core sage grouse habitat in Montana's Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. The Wawa fire already had burned as much 200 acres of sage grouse habitat as of ...

Roads inside the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge were damaged by heavy rains last month that dropped 5 to 10 inches of rain in the popular hunting area. Although the refuge’s staff is ...

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There is grazing on the CMR, refuge manager Paul Santavy said. Roughly two thirds of the refuge’s 1.1 million acres are grazed at some point in a year, while the other third is in recovery. Grazing is ...

GREAT FALLS - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will hold a series of open houses around the state to gather comment on a 15-year plan for the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge northeast of ...

BILLINGS – It is tough being a cougar in the Missouri Breaks. That’s evidenced by the old female mountain lion captured last winter during a lion study. “She was missing part of her tail, two toes on ...

In the aftermath of the Lodgepole Complex fire, as cowboys on horseback rounded up the hoofed survivors from 270,000 charred acres, there were already ranchers scanning the horizon for green grass.