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Montana Untamed

Montana Untamed

Montana Untamed, hosted by Thom Bridge, covers the state"s rugged landscape from hook and bullet to policy and science.

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25:22

Wildfire watch: Agencies predict "normal" fire season...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/06/01

Somewhere in Montana, it will happen. Many places, actually — maybe in your town. And it’ll happen this summer. But nobody knows exactly when, where or how bad. Wildfire is an inherent part of life in the American West. In recent years, a warming climate has increasingly led to larger and more destructive wildfires becoming more common. But that’s an average trend over time. So, what about this fire season? Will blazing infernos turn Montana into ash? Or will the state escape

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20:27

Tarnishing tundra: Spring snowmobiling on Beartooth...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/05/25

The Beartooth Pass climbs between Wyoming and Montana at an elevation close to 11,000 feet. The route through the Beartooth Mountains, Highway 212 between Cooke City and Red Lodge, contains the highest mountains in the state. Because of its elevation, the high landscape is a fragile tundra ecosystem where roads not driven in 50 years are still visible on the landscape. The highway opens on Friday morning, prior to the Memorial Day weekend. And because so much snow is piled atop

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43:36

Journey of Redemption: Book chronicles healing in...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/05/18

Brad Orsted wanted to get better. Facing the unimaginable loss of his infant daughter Marley while in his mother’s care, and the extreme guilt of unanswered questions surrounding her death, Orsted spent years meeting with doctors and therapists. They prescribed medications and therapy sessions as he self-medicated with alcohol, haunted by memories of Marley and spiraling downward into suicide scenarios. But what Orsted could not find in the bottom of a bottle of pills or vodka,

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19:02

Gardening Cougars: Study finds mountain lions feed...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/05/11

As we plan and plant our gardens this spring, consider the mountain lion. The stealthy predators are strictly meat eaters, but what and where they kill provides nutrients for the soil and promotes plant growth. It’s an odd concept examined in a recent study by the big cat conservation group Panthera. From 2014 to 2018, the group collared 50 mountain lions and tracked them to identify kill sites. Once identified, the researchers collected soil and plant samples, comparing them

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26:17

Conversations at the capitol: Wins and losses for...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/05/04

The 68th legislative session adjourned in a whirlwind Tuesday evening, with lawmakers making their final votes on spending and social bills. While unprecedented events over the last two week including protests and arrests grabbed national headlines, in other areas of the Capitol lawmakers debated some of the final bills dealing with hunting, fishing and access. Wildlife legislation often brings some of the biggest debates of the session, and while we did see plenty of strong

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17:10

Big problems for Bighorns: New studies seek to change...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/04/20

Bighorn sheep are an iconic species in Montana and the West. Rams, which can grow large curving horns, are prized by trophy hunters who will pay thousands of dollars at annual auctions to secure a permit to hunt. Yet the species has been plagued by small populations in many herds, die-offs due to disease and limited success when animals from healthy herds are transplanted to create new populations. Recently, Billings Gazette Outdoor editor Brett French wrote an article about

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24:09

Hanging in the wind: Snowbowl chairlift accident...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/04/13

The image went around the country in days: A man clinging to a broken chairlift 20 feet above the ground, one ski off, moments before he had no choice but to jump. What the image didn’t show was that moments before, the man’s 4-year-old son had fallen off the chair when it broke. It happened at Montana Snowbowl ski area just north of Missoula, back in March. The incident sparked an outcry from the community and prompted the U.S. Forest Service to investigate the safety and

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37:58

Coors Light and chlorine: Two Montana train...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/04/06

Freight train derailments in the U.S. have come under increasing scrutiny since a train carrying hazardous materials derailed and burned in East Palestine, Ohio, in early February. Montana is no stranger to freight train derailments. In 1996, a train derailed near Alberton and released chlorine. Some residents still live with health problems from chemical exposure. And, just this past Sunday, April 2, a freight train derailed near Paradise, spilling thousands of beers into the

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16:06

Counting cats: Trail cams used to estimate 50 Canada...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/03/30

With large ear tufts and feet built for hunting snowshoe hares in deep powder, the Canada lynx is an elusive species prowling parts of Montana. Lynx range from Canada and Alaska south into a few states in the lower 48. While no large scale population estimates are available, scientists believe that northwest Montana and northern Idaho likely have the strongest populations, and that is important when considering factors that may put stress on the cats in the future. A recent

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21:31

Heal the Range: Agency plans to reduce Montana's only...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/03/23

Montana’s only wild horse herd is found in south-central Montana’s Pryor Mountains. This is an area of extremes. The lowlands are desert-like, while the mountain tops rise to more than 8,700 feet. Across about 42,000 acres of this rugged land a herd of about 205 are spread across lands managed mostly by the Bureau of Land Management, but also the Custer Gallatin National Forest and the National Park Service. The Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range is one of only four designated wild

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32:46

Out of the den: Why are some bears in western Montana...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/03/16

It’s a hallmark trait of bears, a characteristic known even by small children: bruins hibernate through winter. Except, this year around Missoula, many of them aren’t. From neighborhood “trash bears” to near-city grizzlies feeding on frozen roadkill all season — plus, rural grizzly tracks spotted amid a frigid and snowy February — bears in west-central Montana are active in greater number and frequency than normal for this time of year. On this episode is Joshua Murdock, the

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18:21

Long trek: One wolf's journey across southwest...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/03/09

In 2022 a male wolf that was captured and fitted with a GPS collar south of Dillon decided to take a long hike through some of Montana’s most spectacular wild country. If the wolf had hitchhiked a ride in an automobile, the distance covered is close to 300 miles. But those miles don’t reflect the elevation gains and losses of climbing up and over the mountain ranges. They also don’t tally the rivers that course through the landscape, including the Madison, Gallatin, Yellowstone

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28:09

A new approach: First non-tribal Blackfeet buffalo...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/03/02

The Blackfeet Nation, tucked along the north end of the Rocky Mountain Front, has played host to a tribally managed buffalo herd for decades. Now in the past, the tribe has sold occasional bison hunts to individuals, but last month marked the first time a tribe in Montanan opened a raffle bison hunt to the public. In partnership with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, the Blackfeet Nation invited members of the public to enter two trophy bison hunt raffles. People could buy 20

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43:09

Tenacious Beasts: New book explores the fate of wild...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/02/23

Christopher Preston went wandering with buffalo and running after barred owls in the dark to explore the fate of wild animals in a human world. In Tenacious Beasts, the University of Montana environmental philosophy professor examines what choices we make as we try to restore and rewild creatures that we’ve nearly wiped off the face of the planet. The effort took him many unexpected places, from Norwegian fjords full of humpback whales to Italian mountains with apple-munching

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22:10

Hunting Yellowstone Bison: The tangled web of tribal...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/02/16

Montana has one of the most unique wildlife situations in the world. Yellowstone National Park bison almost annually migrate into Montana during the winter. Since the bison are carriers of the disease brucellosis, which can cause pregnant female cattle to abort, the park animals are not allowed to freely roam like other wildlife. Instead, they are confined to designated zones outside the park’s north and west entrances, near the communities of Gardiner and West

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40:26

Grizzlies recovered?: Feds consider Endangered...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/02/09

It’s the suit-and-tie version of a grizzly bear hunting season, with the federal government announcing it will consider petitions from Montana and Wyoming to remove the grizzly from Endangered Species Act protection and state legislators scrambling to make new laws and policies to exert local control of the big bears. But a lot of fine print stands between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service review and a future grizzly trophy hunt. The apex predator has made big gains since the

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39:28

Culture lost: Why a Warren Miller ski film won't be...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/02/02

For almost three-quarters of a century, the start of ski and snowboard season was marked by the Warren Miller Film Tour that fall. The narrated films, shown around the country and world, have documented the evolution of skiing and the rise of snowboarding across multiple generations. But for the first time, a new Warren Miller Film won’t actually be filmed this year. On this episode, Missoulian newspaper reporter Joshua Murdock, who writes about outdoor recreation and is himself

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23:01

Poor-Man's Lobster: De-mystifying Montana's lesser...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/01/26

It’s a fish of many names: burbot, ling, eel pout, lawyer, mud shark and poor man’s lobster, just to name a few. Montana’s major rivers and reservoirs are home to a fish that may not be the first to come to mind like trout or walleyes for anglers, but ling have a certain following when it comes to a unique fishing experience and great eating. Today I’m with Tom Kuglin with the Montana State News Bureau and we’re going to talk a bit about this species and a story we did taking to

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38:01

Harming homes: Stakeholders say forestry projects may...

Montana Untamed ·

2023/01/19

Across the West, federal and state land management agencies are strategically logging, thinning and burning forests with the goal of making them more resilient to uncontrolled wildfire, as well as diseases. But conservationists and wildlife advocates worry the work will harm grizzly bears and other federally-protected species that call those habitats home. In Western Montana, three projects from different agencies have drawn criticism and lawsuits from stakeholders that say the

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17:07

Snowslide science: How and why we study avalanches

Montana Untamed ·

2023/01/12

In Montana’s backcountry, as well as along some well-traveled highways and railroads, avalanches are a cause for concern. Scientists have been working for decades to better understand these natural phenomena for a number of reasons – the biggest being to save lives. At the same time, national forests have created avalanche forecasting services to provide daily information to backcountry snowmobilers, snowshoers, skiers and snowboard about weather and avalanche conditions

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