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Brett French

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Outdoors Editor at Billings Gazette

Outdoors editor for the Billings Gazette.

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  • 4 days ago | billingsgazette.com | Brett French

    District Court Judge Matthew Wald issued a temporary restraining order on May 27 halting the Stillwater Conservation District’s work on a $5 million Forest Service project to restore Armstrong Creek to its old channel. The creek, a tributary to East Rosebud Lake, was damaged during historic floods in June 2022, as were nearby structures and the main road and bridge leading into the popular Beartooth Mountain drainage.

  • 1 week ago | billingsgazette.com | Brett French

    Tom Besser has authored some disheartening reports when it comes to pneumonia infections in bighorn sheep. In 2021, the now retired Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology professor at Washington State University in Pullman, recapped a disease outbreak at the where 85% of the bighorn sheep population were killed by pneumonia. In 2019, he contributed to a study regarding the spillover dynamics of the pneumonia-causing bacteria — Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, or M.

  • 1 week ago | billingsgazette.com | Brett French

    Once the occasional oddity, tiger trout are ready to make a debut in Montana. The sterile fish, a cross between a male brook trout and a female brown trout, are proposed for planting in four Beartooth Mountain lakes and seven central Montana reservoirs and ponds. The Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks announced proposals to stock the fish this spring in south-central Montana’s Region 5 in Crater, Lily Pad, Companion and Corner lakes.

  • 1 week ago | billingsgazette.com | Brett French

    The politician Theodore Roosevelt, Montana-based western artist Charles M. Russell and novelist Jack London of “The Call of the Wild” fame all have one thing in common – Philip R. Goodwin. Although Goodwin’s name may not sound familiar compared to these three well-known individuals, some of his paintings have become iconic works of art continually fetching higher and higher prices at auction.

  • 2 weeks ago | billingsgazette.com | Brett French

    One cubic yard of tallgrass prairie sod — with its grasses, sedges, flowers, burrowing mammals, worms, mites nematodes and soil microbes — rivals the tropical rainforest for biological diversity. The comparison, from the book “Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie,” seems impossible to anyone who has driven across the treeless plains of Eastern Montana or the Dakotas.

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