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Fewer conflict calls meant that biologists were under less pressure and bears were more likely to live.

Fewer conflict calls meant that biologists were under less pressure and bears were more likely to live.

Fewer conflict calls meant that biologists were under less pressure and bears were more likely to live.

Shortly after Rep. Ryan Zinke introduced legislation aimed at keeping Flathead Lake at full pool during the height of summer, operators of the SKQ Dam called the congressman’s proposal unworkable.

Shortly after Rep. Ryan Zinke introduced legislation aimed at keeping Flathead Lake at full pool during the height of summer, operators of the SKQ Dam called the congressman’s proposal unworkable.

Montana’s rivers give us much to be thankful for. And on this Thanksgiving Day, the reintroduction of Senator Tester’s Montana Headwaters Legacy Act is an extra reason to express our

Save Wild Trout is an advocacy group that was formed to directly address the problems facing the Big Hole River in Montana.

Christina Moser wasn’t really planning on opening a rock shop when she visited the empty 729 Nucleus Avenue storefront in Columbia Falls.

Minimum levels would be kept up by releases from Hungry Horse Reservoir, and maximum levels would be ensured by releases out of Flathead Lake at the Seli’š Ksanka Qlispe’ Dam.

After a team of federal, state and tribal officials flatly rejected pressure largely from a group of Montana Republican officials this summer to raise Flathead Lake levels at the expense