Nov 21 2009
Other than the grizzly connection, this is not really North Fork related, but it’s pretty interesting. According to an article in last Thursday’s New West, a whole new group of people are going to have to get used to having grizzly bears in the neighborhood . . .
Montanans living along the winding Teton River, well [...]
Nov 19 2009
From this week’s Hungry Horse News . . .
Contrary to rumors, a wolf killed up the North Fork by a hunter was not the alpha female of a Glacier Park pack.
Kent Laudon, wolf management specialist for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks said the wolf was a 2-year-old and was wearing a radio collar, but it [...]
Nov 18 2009
As many of you know, the North Fork Landowners’ Association Road Committee has been doing an exceptional and balanced job collecting and presenting well-researched road maintenance and dust abatement information. They recently completed and posted their Final Road Report for 2008 – 2009, summarizing all their activities for the past two years. For more detail, [...]
Nov 16 2009
That’s it for Montana’s wolf hunt this year . . .
Montana is shutting down its first public hunt for gray wolves since their removal from the endangered species list after state officials said they expected to meet the season’s quota of 75 by Monday evening.
The quota was met two weeks before the season’s scheduled close. [...]
Nov 14 2009
Despite a rash of high-profile poaching and self-defense kills this year, Grizzly bears are doing OK . . .
Despite several high-profile, human-caused grizzly bear deaths in recent months, experts from across the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem said Friday the overall trajectory of conflicts between humans and grizzly bears showed little increased cause for alarm — [...]
Nov 12 2009
This week’s Hungry Horse News provides some good background concerning wolf hunt quotas on the North Fork . . .
The recent poaching of three wolves up the North Fork didn’t count toward the hunting quota, but it has raised concerns from a conservation group about the way wolves are being managed.
The wolf quota for the [...]
Nov 11 2009
Today’s Missoulian has an article on the increased number of poachers this year who seem to be killing game just to get a little ego boost . . .
The poacher who pulled the trigger on Maximus — one of Montana’s greatest grizzlies — left the big bear to waste.
So did the poacher who shot two [...]
Nov 09 2009
The Missoulian, in the person of Michael Jamison (of course), has more detail on the closure of this season’s wolf hunt on the North Fork . . .
When a hunter pulled the trigger Monday morning with a wolf in his crosshairs, the bullet killed the big-game season on canis lupus for the region west of [...]
Nov 09 2009
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced the results of its annual Bull Trout redd (spawning bed) survey last week. The redd count was down in most areas this year. The North Fork did pretty well, though, with the exception of Coal Creek where no redds were discovered.
KPAX has an overview. The Daily Inter Lake posted [...]
Nov 09 2009
That’s it for wolf hunting on the North Fork this year. Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks announced it is closing the hunt officially a half-hour past sunset tomorrow, November 10th, after the shooting of the allowed two wolves in the “North Fork Sub-unit.” An AP article posted to the Flathead Beacon has some additional background.
