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A landowner in the Yaak River Valley of northwest Montana has placed a 40-acre conservation easement on her family’s ...

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Don Vockeroth a Canadian climbing legend toppled some of the hardest routes under equipped by today’s standards ...

Imagine you are kayaking on a pristine mountain river in the Rockies, safe from coastal predators like sharks and far enough north not to have to worry about alligators. Out on the water, it would ...

Image via California Department of Fish and Wildlife That's a big bear! A California family was shocked to find a 525-pound ...

With the expansion of grizzlies onto the prairie, locals demanded more responsiveness to address people’s worries. Montana ...

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A Bear! Play Dead! Not That Dead! is an absurdist two-panel meme format and exploitable comic in which a person notices a ...

Last Sunday was Groundhog Day here in America. Locally, we waited for Concord Charlie in Athens to declare whether we would have six more weeks of winter or an early spring. In Punxsutawney, Penn., ...