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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife commissioners are being asked to approve a program to reintroduce trumpeter swans to the Madison River Valley.

Wildlife officials plan to release five 70-day-old swans this summer in the restored O'Dell Creek headwaters south of Ennis

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead is calling on the federal government to end federal protections for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone area.

Mead wrote to U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last week saying that the gravity of the bear situation around the nation's oldest national park cannot be overemphasized

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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Senators Jon Tester and Max Baucus are asking federal health officials to lift security restrictions on the bacteria that causes a disease found in wildlife in and around Yellowstone National Park

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COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho State Police says five Great Falls, Mont., residents were injured when the car they were in struck a moose on Interstate 90 in northern Idaho.

The ISP says 14-year-old Ryan Comesatnight of Great Falls was westbound shortly after 9 p

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OVANDO, Mont. (AP) — Five yearling swans were released into a wetland near Ovando in an ongoing effort to reintroduce the birds to the Blackfoot River Valley of western Montana.

And the process is starting to pay off

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KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — State wildlife officials say a young grizzly bear caught grazing on lawns in a residential area near Ferndale has been released on the west side of Hungry Horse Reservoir.

Fish, Wildlife and Parks grizzly bear management specialist Tim Manley says the 2½-year-old bear was caught on Tuesday and released the same day

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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A wildlife advocacy group is suing the U.S. Forest Service for the release of documents that discuss the agency's plans to keep a disease that has already killed millions of bats in the U

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MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Montana will appeal a district court ruling that blocks further transfers of bison out of Yellowstone National Park.

About 60 park bison were moved to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in March over the objections of some ranchers and eastern Montana officials

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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked Montana officials from using a helicopter to drive bison back into Yellowstone National Park.

U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell's temporary restraining order Monday follows arguments by wildlife advocates that federal and state officials had not properly studied how the use of helicopters affects grizzly bears

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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks commissioners have given their initial approval to the 2012 wolf-hunt proposal that would allow trapping and eliminate quotas.

After a nearly four-hour hearing Thursday in which more than 60 people spoke, the commissioners voted to put the proposal out to public comment until June 25

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