Posted in Elk, Environment, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers, tagged Buttercups, Elk on April 1, 2008 | 19 Comments »
During a short trip into one of my favorite areas just a couple of days ago I had an experience that would be a thrill for anyone who loves wildlife.
A couple of miles from the road as I approached a high ridge, slightly to my right I saw four white-tail deer. As I watched them, [...]
Posted in Animals, Bighorn sheep, Elk, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, tagged Bighorn sheep, Elk on January 15, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Above, elk browse a south-facing slope.
At my feet, a winter stream.
Above and to the right of the elk, a big ram surveys his domain.
This is Montana!
Posted in Elk, Hunting, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, White-tail deer on April 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
$2.399 per gallon, 16 gallons to fill the tank, total: $38.38. The accompanying feeling of outrage and frustration isn’t a pleasant one.
The road up out of the valley into the canyon is more difficult this time of year, with ruts in the muddy sections, and ice under the snow-covered sections, causing the Jeep to slide [...]
Posted in Bighorn sheep, Elk, Hunting, Montana, Moose, Mule deer, Nature, Outdoors, Photos, Pictures, White-tail deer on April 5, 2007 | No Comments »
Six or seven years ago Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks completed a wildlife management project that encompassed four to five square miles of one of my favorite hunting places, where they thinned the trees to provide additional prime habitat for bighorn sheep. It didn’t work: I’ve not seen any sheep in the area they cleared [...]
Posted in Animals, Elk, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photos, Pictures on November 25, 2006 | No Comments »
Today was our last elk hunt of the season and we began without high expectations for success, but the exhilaration of just being outdoors, in the high country, was enough to cause us to make the trip.
After two hours, thirty-five miles of driving through the snow into the back country of the Cabinet Mountains of [...]
