Boreal Owls

Boreal owls are small raptors that inhabit mixed conifer-aspen forests across Alaska, Canada and northern Eurasia; their range also extends ...

Fishers of the Forest

Fishers are large members of the mustelid (weasel) family; second in size only to the river otter, male fishers may weight up to 13 pounds. ...

The Little Rocky Mountains

West of Fort Peck Lake, in northeastern Montana, a cluster of domes and buttes rise above the Great Plains.  Almost 200 miles east of the Ro...

The Rivers of Yellowstone

Yellowstone National Park covers a massive volcanic plateau in northwestern Wyoming; slivers of the Park also extend into southern Montana a...

The Crazy Mountains

Endowed with one of the more colorful names in the North American landscape, the Crazy Mountains are one of the isolated ranges that rise in...

The Flathead River

The Flathead River of northwest Montana rises via three primary forks. The North Fork heads in the mountains of southeast British Columbia ...

Lake Missoula & the Channeled Scablands

Near the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, about 13,000 years ago, a lobe of the Cordilleran Glacier that covered the Rocky Mountains blocked ...