There are many resources available to help you learn more about the plains grassland. Follow the links below to many sites that can help you discover new and interesting things.

Outdoor Learning Sites

• American Prairie Reserve
• Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge
• Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge
• Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge
• Fort Peck Interpretive Center & Museum
• Bureau of Land Management
• First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park
• Chief Plenty Coups State Park
• Giant Spring State Park
• Makoshika State Park

Video Reports

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks maintains a video library of many species of animals and areas around the state.

• Chief Plenty Coups State Park
• Homerun Pond
• Fort Peck Hatchery
• Fish Telemetry
• Breaks Patrol
• Fort Peck Museum
• Sauger Study

Fish and Wildlife

• Defenders of Wildlife
• Black-footed Ferret Recovery Program
• Missouri-Yellowstone Adopt-A-Fish - Learn about warm-water fish as biologist track fish with radio telemetry

For Educators

• "Investigating Your Environment" - Outdoor student investigation from the US Forest Service (PDF)
• The High Plains: Land of Extremes, BLM

• Birds & Birding
  • Hope for Montana's Prairie Songsters: Rotational grazing and cropland conversions could help slow the decline of fast-disappearing grassland bird populations.
  • Where Have All The Plovers Gone?: Looking for mountain shorebirds where there are no mountains or shores.
  • The Case of the Disappearing Duck: Why have pintail numbers been dropping over the past few decades, while other similar waterfowl species have shown remarkable recoveries?
• Fisheries
  • Big (and Plentiful) Fish on the Prairie: Some anglers say there's no decent fishing east of Great Falls and Billings. Here are nine angling hotspots that say they're wrong (or lying).
• General Interests
  • The Swift Fox's Speedy Return: Why, after being declared locally extinct in 1969, has this tiny canine returned to Montana?
  • Rattlesnake!: What to do if you or someone you are with gets bitten.
• FWP Issues & Management
  • Ferrets in the Spotlight: Searching eastern Montana for North America’s rarest mammal.
  • Avoiding the ESA Ambulance: Why more landowners are working with FWP to keep Montana wildlife from ending up in the Endangered Species Act emergency room.
• Hunting
  • On Montana Safari: Pursuing pronghorn is as close as you can get to an African big-game hunt without flying halfway around the globe.
  • The Greatest Hunting Trip Ever?: Stalking Montana’s amazingly abundant wildlife with Lewis and Clark.
• Montana State Parks
  • Oasis on the Prairie: Cool and clear water, sandy beaches, picnic facilities, and More—the new Brush Lake State Park may be the greatest thing to hit northeastern Montana since the invention of air conditioning.
  • A Good Time in Montana's Badlands: Dinosaur bones, knockout scenery, mountain biking, Buzzard Day, and more—all amid some of the state’s most spectacular surroundings—make Makoshika a must-see state park.
• Outdoors Portraits
  • McCown's Longspur
  • Black-billed magpie
• Wildlife
  • Chilly Reception: Though native to northeastern Montana, elk returning to what are now the region’s farm fields are being managed as unwelcome intruders.