I have had the pleasure for most of my life to live in Montana , a beautiful, wild and sometimes harsh place. The Matador is located on Montana’s Northern Prairie and is nestled at the foot of the Little Rockies Mountains. Favorite Nature montana ranching MORE

Flickr photographer Taylor McDowell snapped this photo at Shook Mountain, Montana — thanks for sharing your image through The Nature Conservancy’s Flickr group ! What a picture-perfect view. MORE

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Click here to view the embedded video. This compelling video tells a succinct version of the dirty coal story. For more info visit powerpastcoal.org. Related posts: Coal “Mine” Thick Green Algea Covers China’s Eastern Coastline. The Environmental Cost of Your Internet Time MORE

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This year, that award was presented to Denver Holt , a Montana scientist and bird guide and thus, if I may be presumptuious, my homeboy. The ORI maintains a research station in the Mission Valley of Western Montana, neighboring the Ninepipes National Wildlife Refuge. MORE

This week's coal vs. clean energy examples come from Montana and Minnesota. Having once lived in Montana myself, I can't imagine wanting to ruin such a beautiful big sky with coal pollution -- but that's just what the Colstrip coal plant is doing. MORE

Or at least the four dogs in the house I’m staying at in Montana showed no particular reaction to the 5.8 Birds earthquakes Montana OspreySo it turns out dogs are useless. MORE

UCGS answers climate change questions from Glacier National Park in Montana MORE

Those old familiars—discomfort, mistrust, uncertainty, depression, loneliness—I've burned them all. Green Health & Wellness Love & Relationships (see below for Sexy) depression discomfort Earth loneliness mistrust sanctuary uncertainty MORE

For 25 years, Dennis Quaid has called home a sprawling, wild homestead in Montana on 418 acres. Unfortunately, he’s found a new love called surfing, and with Big Sky Country offering few opportunities to indulge (What the hell Montana?!), he’s decided to throw his ranch up on the market and move to Hawaii. Rough life. [.]. Home Lifestyle MORE

Because they are near the still, stocked waters of McCormick Park Fishing Pond, this pair of Osprey often do well in years when high, turbid waters result in nest failures for other Montana Osprey – and this year has been such a year. Birding Montana Osprey puns MORE

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home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana By Carrie • March 11, 2011 • 5 comments Tweet Share Like most Northern Hemisphere birders, I’ve been monitoring the signs of spring like a dog watching the driveway for a beloved owner. Whatever they used to be, they are now a bird of Montana. MORE

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Montana, particularly Northwestern Montana, is well known for its abundance of a delicious deep purple delight, the huckleberry. This is a story about huckleberries; it is merely disguised as a Montana adventure. MORE

Birds fledging Montana summerNew York has wonderful birds. I love New York’s birds with a passion, from the parti-colored pigeons to the spring warbler fiesta to Jamaica Bay’s herons and ibises (but not the sandpipers. Never the sandpipers.). MORE

Montana wildlife officials are considering removing the names of the state’s hunters and trappers from public record. Read More The post Montana Considers Protecting Hunters’ Confidentiality appeared first on Ecorazzi. Animals Causes News Top News MORE

Last week many birders were shocked and saddened by the deaths of thousands of Snow Geese who, trapped by adverse weather conditions, landed at the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Montana. As an Explainer of Montana, I am here to help. Conservation environment Montana Snow Goose MORE

Karma is real. So whoever stole this banjo from this poor man needs to give it back now and needs to apologize. I''ve heard this man''s music on the street, it''s beautiful, and it''s his only source of income and/or happiness right now. MORE

The state of Montana is very firm on the subject of spotted knapweed, and the closely related diffuse knapweed and Russian knapweed. Spotted knapweed arrived in Montana in the 1920s, most likely in a batch of alfalfa seed or perhaps on the creep down from western Canada, where it may have come ashore in the ballast of ships. Why is the state of Montana so down on knapweed, which to the eyes of the casual observer is a rather pretty purple flower that livens up roadsides and ditches? MORE

Montana Food Bank saves money by turning food waste into compost for local gardens. Garden From Garbage is a program run by Sunburst Unlimited, a Montana-based reseller of Effective Microorganisms® products for TeraGanix, Inc. MORE

Sleeping in the sun on blankets. Planting seeds and watching them grow. Finding hot springs. Playing with the dog. Running like the wind. Feeling the rain. Riding a horse. That''s what it''s all about this time of year. Adventure Animal Rights (Vegan, Pets, Wildlife) Blog (always click 4 all blogs) Love & Relationships (see below for Sexy) Yoga MORE

Montana is one of nine states with provisions that say that the right of recall extends to recalling members of its federal congressional delegation, pursuant to Montana Code 2-16-603, on the grounds of physical or mental lack of fitness, incompetence, violation of oath of office, official misconduct, or conviction of certain felony offenses. Montana law requires stated grounds for recall which show conformity to the allowed grounds for recall. MORE

Ginger snaps make me horny. Biscotti makes me foam at the mouth. MORE

Brad Pitt is helping the Sioux and Assiniboine American Indian tribes of Fort Peck, Montana by building sustainable green homes for underprivileged families within their reservation. The project is part Read More The post Brad Pitt’s Org to Help Build Green Homes on Montana Reservation appeared first on Ecorazzi. MORE

This story comes from Emily Johnson, who is a sub-permittee for a licensed wildlife rehabilitator in Helena, Montana. Grace’s high school is in Bozeman, Montana, next to a McDonald’s. Birds bird rehabilitation bird rescue crows Montana MORE

Almost unnoticed in President Obama’s budget for 2014 is a strong commitment to the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) and, with that investment, the hope that this remarkably successful federal program will be renewed beyond its current expiration date in 2015. MORE

Bison aren’t home on the range yet: efforts to restore their populations meet resistance in Montana. ( What goes great with that morning caffeine buzz? The Green Buzz. “Unprecedented” dolphin deaths in the Gulf linked to BP oil spill? Huffington Post ). Giant ocean garbage patches , meet your match. And a teen invented it, to boot!) ( Treehugger ). The Exxon crude oil spill in Arkansas is a big mess — and is reinvigorating the Keystone Pipeline debate. MORE

The Montana Field Guide, a helpful online compendium provided by the state government, lists seven species. Are invisible. I mean, I know they’re out there. Three of those — the Black-chinned , Calliope , and Rufous Hummingbirds — breed in the Missoula area. That is, in extremely precise mathematical terms, three times more species of hummingbirds than breed near the Olde Homestead. MORE

For some reason, this is the year that the masked butcherbirds have been around in my corners of Montana, with as many sightings for me in 2014 as in the rest of my life (including the other three years I lived in Montana) combined. Birding Montana New York Northern Shrike Yesterday I saw a Dark-eyed Junco while I was walking my dog. It was the Slate-colored form, of course. MORE

Pratima Kalra: Set against a backdrop of beautiful mountains, the River Bank house rests calmly along the Gallatin River outside Big Sky in Montana. MORE

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A new railroad proposed in Montana offers a sneak preview of what’s to come for the Northwest coal export debate. The little-known Tongue River Railroad project would, if approved, build a new line through eastern Montana’s rangeland to allow development of a new export mine for Arch Coal. MORE

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In the valley of the Yellowstone and Boulder Rivers, snuggled up against Rocky Mountain ranges, sits the little western town of Big Timber, Montana. The highest mountain in Montana, Granite Peak at 12,799 feet, is just south in the Absaroka Mountain Range. MORE

Nature Photo of the Week Photography The Nature Conservancy Uncategorized lighting montana Photo of the Week storm Being able to capture the speed and electricity of a lightning bolt never gets old, in terms of photographic imagery. MORE

Perez Hilton shared the s**t storm that followed some IG videos that hip hop recording artist French Montana shared of his 32nd birthday gift – an elephant doing party tricks on his front lawn. Iggy Azalea, Montana’s rapping and romantic partner, also took a turn posing with the “present.” But since Montana and Azalea aren’t on team vegan, and likely most of these commenters aren’t either, all animal exploitation is the elephant in the room (get it). MORE

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Birds Montana names Ospreys web cams Today we named the three Osprey chicks that hatched out at Dunrovin ranch. It was a complex process, involving a selfie contest, voting by the site members, and fabulous prizes. I have to confess that I got a bit caught up in the whole contest. As a Dunrovin employee I didn’t submit a name or vote, but I was passionately in favor of some names, and passionately against others. MORE

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It’s been beautiful here in Montana lately. Birding Interior West Montana winter finchesBy beautiful, I mean too cold, too gray, and as always too dry, but full of birds. MORE

So if you''ve been hesitant to move in, here are some reasons you should do it! There are lots of reasons to keep your own apartment, but if you''re ready, living together can be the best things in the world. Just don''t become a shacker-upper. MORE