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Elk-collaring project on Montana reservation helps state refine survey efforts
Stacy Courville, a Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, satisfied his curiosity about where the hundreds of elk that winter in the Hog Heaven area of the Flathead Reservation in Montana between Elmo and Niarada, by putting GPS collars on three cow elk in 2012, and one traveled to near McGregor Lake, another moved into the Lost Trail area and the third moved more than 60 miles to the Fortine Creek area northwest of Whitefish Lake.
Kalispell Daily InterLake; Nov. 14
Golden eagle numbers along Montana migration route continue to decline
The slow, but steady decline in the number of golden eagles counted in the annual survey done earlier this month at Bridger Bowl Ski Area in Montana along the big birds' annual migration from Canada and Alaska to the southwestern United States and the Central Rockies continued, with 1,131 counted this year, down from 1,272 in 2012.
Great Falls Tribune; Nov. 14
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