The bright morning sun filtering through ponderosa pines sparkles off the riffles of Muskrat Creek as the stream twists down from the Elkhorn Mountains. Two Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks fisheries biologists, Lee Nelson and Dave Moser, watch a survey crew work a creek segment with an electric probe, nets, and bucket. Each burst of electricity from the probe temporarily stuns trout, causing them to float to the surface. [Full Story]
Montanans love wildlife. But it’s one thing to marvel at a mountain goat in Glacier National Park or watch a mule deer trotting across the prairie. It’s another to have a striped skunk camping in your kitchen or a big brown bat fluttering across the bedroom. [Full Story]
