Duncan Adams

2 weeks ago | mtstandard.com | Duncan Adams

A start. An evolving document. That’s how fans of a plan to manage pesky mule deer in Anaconda described a strategy that avoids culling. A waste of everyone’s time. Nothing but the status quo. That’s how critics described the non-culling plan, which leans heavily for population control on public education and enforcement to curtail people from feeding deer.

2 weeks ago | mtstandard.com | Duncan Adams

Utah cattleman Jed Cook died just shy of age 99. Son Les described his father as an old rough-and-tough, leathery-faced cowboy who cinched his saddle in his 90s to ride in a Pony Express reenactment.  Ibapah, where the Cook family ranched, hosted a Pony Express station back in 1860 and 1861. Last week, Les Cook’s office bookcase at Montana Technological University was approaching bare. But one of Jed Cook’s less begrimed cowboy hats still occupied a place of honor.

2 weeks ago | wvnews.com | Duncan Adams

A start. An evolving document. That’s how fans of a plan to manage pesky mule deer in Anaconda described a strategy that avoids culling. A waste of everyone’s time. Nothing but the status quo. That’s how critics described the non-culling plan, which leans heavily for population control on public education and enforcement to curtail people from feeding deer.

2 weeks ago | news-journal.com | Duncan Adams

DEER LODGE — The two men fielded a few questions as sharp and barbed as porcupine quills. Yet Bill Schenk from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and the aptly-named Seth Makepeace from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes appeared unflappable. The meeting focused on the potential for FWP or CSKT to make a call on junior water rights in the upper Clark Fork Valley under certain low-flow conditions to bolster instream flow on behalf of fish and other aquatic life.

2 weeks ago | msuexponent.com | Duncan Adams

DEER LODGE — The two men fielded a few questions as sharp and barbed as porcupine quills. Yet Bill Schenk from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and the aptly-named Seth Makepeace from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes appeared unflappable. The meeting focused on the potential for FWP or CSKT to make a call on junior water rights in the upper Clark Fork Valley under certain low-flow conditions to bolster instream flow on behalf of fish and other aquatic life.