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Outdoors
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Going Deep
"Keep your voices down," the tour guide said as we entered the Lewis and Clark Caverns. "The bats are sensitive to noise."And so began our two-hour climb through the caverns, a series of large underground caves near Whitehall, Montana, about 45 minutes from Butte. Set high in a mountainside above the Jefferson River, the caverns take you on a magical journey mo... |
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Aiming High
Natalie's life, at age 15, was spiraling down in a series of bad relationships and drug abuse.She was a smart kid, though, and her parents knew that. If only they could find a light that would open her heart to a healthier lifestyle and happiness. They found it at the Summit Preparatory School in Kalispell.Set in the mountains west of Kalispell near Ashley Lake, Summit Preparatory Sch... |
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Bear Obsessed
Even after hiking 6,000 miles and seeing over 1,000 bears in the last six years, Tim Rubbert still gets a charge out of seeing grizzly bears."Every time I see one, it's like seeing your first one," he said.Rubbert is a bear naturalist and photographer who is passionate about grizzly bears - watching them safely from a distance, studying them and photographing them. Rubbert... |
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Hunting Preparation: knowing where to go before you get there
Thomas Baumeister, education bureau chief for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, is what you might call a New Age hunter. Using the tools of technology, including the Internet and GPS, Baumeister is able to study the intricate topographic details of his hunting grounds long before he ever sets foot on them. Baumeister hunts predominantly state-owned land and Bureau of Land Management land along the Rocky Mountain Front, where the land is a mixture of private, state and federal ownership. By doing his homework - long before the hunting season starts - he's able to pinpoint public hunting areas and quality hunting grounds by the time big game season rolls around Oct. 23. |
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Fore!
Plink. Clank. GONG.If you were walking past the disc-golf course at the end of Whitefish Lake, you might think you were walking past someone playing a xylophone. But these sounds emanating from the deep woods off of East Lakeshore Drive are not from a musical instrument; they're coming from 18 different wooden poles in the ground, poles covered with a variety of tubing and pipes, each... |
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Wolf Hunt planned for Montana
MONTANA PREPARED FOR FIRST WOLF HUNTMontana'sfirst-ever, fair-chase wolf hunting season, set to open Sept. 15 insome areas of the state, is the culmination of one of the fastestendangered species recoveries on record, wildlife officials said this week. "Montana's approach to recovery has always been open, balanced, and based on science," said FWP Director Joe Maurier. "Montananshave lived with wol... |
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