Big Sky Vs. Big Shoulders

Montana and Chicago

Do I hear a bison chortling?  Yes, it's a laugh a minute these days in Montana. The bears are slapping their grizzly knees; the bighorn sheep are high-hoofing the pronghorn antelopes; the glaciers are splitting their sides.

Chicago Tribune

When Your Neighbor is a Grizzly

grizzly bearPeople are going to have to accept the big predators as a cohabitant on a limited landscape, the biologists said in a draft conservation plan released this week by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  MORE>>>

The Missoulian