Wednesday, April 02, 2025

ARTICLES BY BRETT FRENCH

Ferry Canyon walleye commemorates granddad

Sometimes a big fish means more than a trophy, a great memory or an unusual story. Occasionally, such an event carries an even deeper, spiritual meaning.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Above-normal fire season shaping up in Northern Rockies

Things are shaping up for an above-normal fire season in the Northern Rockies forecast area
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Crowdless Yellowstone park opening has visitors taking advantage

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — For Matt Gibbens, visiting Yellowstone National Park via the East Entrance when it opened late last month was a “no brainer.”
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO

Yellowstone cougars infected with Bubonic plague

Cats in West susceptible to age-old disease
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Montana sheriff's 1920 shooting set off posse gun battle

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — In 1921, Ruth Garfield became the first female sheriff in Montana at the age of 28.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO

Mayflies make good trout patterns

and they’re indicators of healthy water
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO

Snowmobile trailer groomer survives avalanche near Bozeman

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — When Daniel Kristensen felt the back of the 11,000-pound snow groomer he was driving slide toward the edge of the old logging road he knew he was in trouble.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 5 YEARS AGO

Sno-bikes are latest winter craze

There’s a new electricity in the winter air. Snow-churning, tree-dodging, modified machines called snowbikes are supplying the spark.
BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 5 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO

Yellowstone wolves

Wolf watchers line the side of the road Monday near Tower Junction to watch the Junction Butte and Prospect Peak wolf packs interact. It was 1995 when the first eight wolves live-trapped in Canada were placed inside fenced enclosures in Yellowstone to acclimate them to the area in hopes they …
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 2 MONTHS AGO

State's bighorn conservation strategy being evaluated

BILLINGS — Repeatedly stifled in efforts to transplant bighorn sheep in new locations in Montana over the past few years, the state’s wildlife commission chairman said it may be time to rethink the state’s conservation strategy for the popular big game species.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 5 MONTHS AGO

Montana T. rex fossil goes to Smithsonian

er boomed and lightning illuminated their small camper, Kathy Wankel couldn’t help but think that after years of being buried, the few fossilized bones she and her family had dug up that day, and carefully swaddled in towels and an old sweatshirt, did not want to be moved.
THE WESTERN NEWS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

Panel to examine hunting, fishing fee proposals

No one likes to pay more and get less, except maybe dieters looking for fewer calories in a meal. But that’s the scenario hunters in Montana may be facing in the future.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 11 YEARS AGO

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