Martha Williams, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, toured a wetlands restoration project Wednesday that has helped return biodiversity to bottomlands along the Madison River.
Martha Williams, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, toured a wetlands restoration project Wednesday that has helped return biodiversity to bottomlands along the Madison River.
Billings Gazette
Volunteer trappers working in concert with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks have captured 18 marten since early December for relocation to the Little Belt Mountains. They are the cutest little things, but they are really feisty, said Claire Gower, an FWP wildlife biologist based in Bozeman.
They are in super good condition, she added, except for one older male that had lost an eye, had a ripped ear and a grizzled face. He was a real bruiser.
Marten, a cat-sized member of the weasel family, were historically present in central Montanaâs mountain ranges, including the Little Belts. However, at some point within the last 100 years â possibly due to poisoning or unregulated trapping â the animals disappeared from the region.