At the top of the Alaskan panhandle, the Bering River flows into the Gulf of Alaska. Located immediately east of the Copper River and the Copper River Critical Habitat Area, the Bering River’s alluvial fan combines with the Copper’s to create a 75-mile-wide, complex, coastal wetland system. This vast ecosystem provides incredibly important habitat for migrating birds, bears, moose, salmon, steelhead, eulachon, furbearers, and other species valued by Alaskan residents and visitors. Each ...

River access sites across the state are getting more use than ever. Many are undeveloped or not built with this kind of traffic in mind. However, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks staff in Region 2 are trying to improve that. The unofficial access site at Stevensville Bridge, newly named John Owen FAS, is getting some much needed TLC and a few improvements sure to make anglers enjoying the beautiful Bitterroot River a little happier.    Once used as the town dump, large amounts of metal ...

Sen. Jon Tester is once again pushing to pass his Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act, but he’s getting little support from Montana’s other senator, Sen. Steve Daines. On Tuesday, the Public Lands, Forests and Mining subcommittee of the Senate committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a brief hearing on 14 bills, including Tester’s Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act. The act was first introduced as a stand-alone bill in 2017, and this will be the third Congress in which the bill has ...

 

Canoe country writer, guide and conservationist Sigurd F. Olson once described the silence of northeastern Minnesota’s Boundary Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) region as the “singing wilderness.” He said, it “has to do with the calling of the loons, northern lights and the great silences of the land lying northwest of Lake Superior.”[1] And I would add, the startling volley of ruffed grouse flushing like feathered fireworks. In a world of 21st century hunting that can include bait piles, ...