What's eating the elk?
Folks in the Bitterroot know the answer is wolves. State biologists aren't so sure.
Julie Fillingham was standing stock-still and quiet in the dense undergrowth of the Bitterroot River’s West Fork during hunting season last year, waiting for a bull elk to pass by, when something on the forest floor caught her attention. At first Fillingham thought it was a stump. Lifting her binoculars for a closer look might have spooked the elk, so she just watched; whatever it was, it was squat, black and motionless against the pre-dawn brush, and it was just 40 yards away. Only when she saw the tracks later did she realize she’d been staring at a wolf.
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We suspect Missoula Street Superintendent Brian Hensel agreed to an interview only because it offered a brief respite from the chaos around his department's building, which was ground zero for coordinating snow removal following the seventh biggest snowstorm—about 16 inches fell between last Tuesday and Thursday—in Missoula's recorded history.
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(Range)
What's eating the elk?
Folks in the Bitterroot know the answer is wolves. State biologists aren't so sure.
Julie Fillingham was standing stock-still and quiet in the dense undergrowth of the Bitterroot River’s West Fork during hunting season last year, waiting for a bull elk to pass by, when something on the forest floor caught her attention. At first Fillingham thought it was a stump. Lifting her binoculars for a closer look might have spooked the elk, so she just watched; whatever it was, it was squat, black and motionless against the pre-dawn brush, and it was just 40 yards away. Only when she saw the tracks later did she realize she’d been staring at a wolf.
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(Info)
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(Info)
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(Up Front)
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(Info)
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(Info)
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(Film Features)
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(Performing Arts)
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(Noise)
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