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I am a former director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and have hunted practically as long as I…
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The Colorado Trail, an iconic 567-mile high-elevation trail that crosses the Rockies, owes its existence largely to Gudy Gaskill, a…
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Biologist Diane K. Boyd has had a front-row seat to 40 years of wolf recovery in the West, but her…
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Abandoned Ranch buildings above a meadow of Deer Creek south of Anacanda, Montana. Picture taken in late July.
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The company I work for recently built a new ticket office at the base of Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado….
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I suppose it’s the human thing on a hiking trail to acknowledge one another when passing. But on a well-used…
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Tim Sheehy, the Republican seeking to unseat Montana Democratic Senator Jon Tester, is a business executive born and raised out…
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