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A man in Flathead County was hospitalized Thursday evening after being charged by a grizzly bear.
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Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks killed a food-conditioned black bear after a conflict with campers in the Flathead Valley.
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State wildlife managers are working to lease half a million acres of private land to conserve prairie habitat in eastern Montana. The program will create temporary land protections for threatened ecosystems.
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Montana wildlife officials agreed to join a multi-state plan to manage grizzly bears around Yellowstone National Park. The deal will go into effect if grizzlies in the ecosystem are delisted from federal endangered species protections.
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The U.S. Interior and Agriculture departments are funding more work to prevent conflicts between Montana ranchers and grizzly bears.
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State and Federal wildlife officials are making plans to kill lake trout in the Swan Lake drainage. The agencies say core populations of native bull trout are at risk of extinction in coming decades due to competition and predation by nonnative lake trout.
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Tribes get funding for a new food processing facility. FWP reminds anglers to be on the look out for the pallid sturgeon. Missoula County has a new health officer. Custer-Gallatin National Forest has a new supervisor. Maclay Bridge in Missoula reopens after recent repairs.
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The head of the fisheries department at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks was placed on administrative leave in mid-May — one of several FWP administrators placed on leave in recent years. Missoula Current environmental reporter Laura Lundquist shared her reporting on the agency with MTPR’s Austin Amestoy.
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Preliminary results from a study of the Clark Fork River shows toxic pollutants are more widespread than was previously thought.
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The federal government is in the process of updating its policies regarding management of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Montana ranchers are worried the new rule could prohibit cattle grazing on refuge lands.