Mar. 3—Tribal and other wildlife officials in Northwest Montana are mourning the recent death of a veteran wildlife official and colleague. Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal member Stacy Courville died recently. A death notice in the Missoulian indicated Courville, 53, died at his home in Charlo last week. Courville grew up on the Flathead Indian Reservation and was an enrolled member of .
Grizzlies are coming back. But can we make room for them?
We call them attacks; bears see them as defense. Either way, human-grizzly interactions are on the rise.
A camera trap captures grizzly bears bathing, splashing, and frolicking at a water hole.Photograph by Michael Nichols with Ronan Donovan and the National Park Service, National Geographic
ByAaron Teasdale
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Missoula, MontanaKyler Alm froze. A branch snapped. Something was in the forest behind him. Alm, a 19-year-old hunter with a permit for a bull elk, nocked an arrow in his bow and waited. The tawny fur of a moving animal appeared through the trees, but something wasn’t right. Alm, who’d come alone into the woods, didn’t see antlers.