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Montana Outdoors Magazine

Together Again

The first week in August last year was a busy one for two subadult grizzlies on the move in western Montana—and for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks employees who received a flurry of reports about the pair acting “young and dumb,” in the words of Missoula-based FWP bear specialist Jamie Jonkel.

Eyewitness accounts, videos, and trail camera photos revealed details of the bears’ journey from the Blackfoot Valley to the northern Bitterroot, where they spent the next two months crisscrossing a key travel corridor used by many wildlife species.

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