Choteau Montana

Each spring, the sky comes alive along Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front. Huge flocks of migrating geese, swans and other birds stop for a rest on their long migration from as far south as Mexico to the Arctic Circle. A few years ago, a group of local women started a festival to help celebrate the phenomenon.

Choteau residents are being warned to watch out for a grizzly bear recently wounded near Freezeout Lake. A new cancer treatment center has opened in Lewistown. Montana will get more than one million dollars in federal aid for sagebrush conservation efforts.

Montana has received federal funding to expand air quality monitoring stations, particularly in rural areas.

Grizzly bears are expanding their range into parts of Montana where they have not roamed for years, if not centuries. Montana wildlife managers and lawmakers are preparing for state-level grizzly bear management in the possibility of a federal delisting.

This spring, MTPR's Ellis Juhlin and Katy Wade set out on a multi-purpose road-trip across northeast Montana to sit down and meet with those to hear what they wanted to share about their home.

Grizzly bear populations across the state are growing, as is talk about how to minimize human-bear conflict. A Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks report…

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials killed a grizzly bear along the Marias River on Monday. They’d been tracking the bear since it was shot by an…

A male grizzly bear shot and wounded south of Shelby two weeks ago continues to elude federal and state wildlife experts attempting to trap it."The bear…

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife authorities shot and killed a female grizzly bear after she twice killed sheep on a ranch southeast of Valier.Fish,…

A grizzly bear in Stillwater County had to be shot after it killed a herd of cows. Wildlife officials say bears are becoming more active as they search…