Scott McMillion » ecology http://scottmcmillion.com Journalist, author of "Mark of the Grizzly," senior editor of Montana Quarterly Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:52:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 “Ghost Cat” http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/02/ghost-cat/ http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/02/ghost-cat/#comments Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:55:58 +0000 Scott http://scottmcmillion.com/?p=815 By Scott McMillion
Nature Conservancy Magazine
Winter, 2009
Photography by Ted Wood

Scientists in the Northern Rockies labor hard to protect the increasingly rare Canada Lynx. But first, they have to find the elusive creature. And that means diving into the deadfall. There’s no guarantee of success.

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]]> http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/02/ghost-cat/feed/ 0 “A Fragile Coalition” http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/01/a-fragile-coalition/ http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/01/a-fragile-coalition/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:54:02 +0000 Scott http://scottmcmillion.com/?p=798 The Montana Quarterly
Winter, 2010
Photography by Thomas Lee
Is Montana ready for more wilderness? U.S. Senator Jon Tester says it’s time.

]]> http://scottmcmillion.com/2010/01/a-fragile-coalition/feed/ 0 “The Aftermath and the Lessons” Second in a four-part series about wildfire http://scottmcmillion.com/2008/06/the-aftermath-and-the-lessons-number-two-of-a-five-part-series/ http://scottmcmillion.com/2008/06/the-aftermath-and-the-lessons-number-two-of-a-five-part-series/#comments Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:57:53 +0000 Scott http://scottmcmillion.com/?p=442 By Scott McMillion
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
June 30,2008

After the fires of 1988, scientists from around the nation trooped to Yellowstone National Park, analyzing the aftermath. They found an amazingly resilient landscape.

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]]> http://scottmcmillion.com/2008/06/the-aftermath-and-the-lessons-number-two-of-a-five-part-series/feed/ 0 “The War on Weeds: In Hells Canyon the Lines Are Drawn” http://scottmcmillion.com/2007/07/the-war-on-weeds-in-hells-canyon-the-lines-are-drawn/ http://scottmcmillion.com/2007/07/the-war-on-weeds-in-hells-canyon-the-lines-are-drawn/#comments Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:52:20 +0000 Scott http://scottmcmillion.com/?p=510 By Scott McMillion
Nature Conservancy Magazine
Summer 2007
Photography by Karen Ballard

The toughness that drove most settlers from Hells Canyon is what kept this place so fruitful for wildlife. For the most part, it’s been spared the energies and damages of mankind, the opposable thumbs and the itch to tinker. Hells Canyon still supports that amazing diversity of life, still has what the rest of the American West once had: vast acreages of native plants and big populations of native critters to eat them and each other. It’s an ecosystem that works.
But much of this is threatened. We saw the invaders.

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