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The Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge (abbreviated as the CMR NWR) is a National Wildlife Refuge in the U.S. state of Montana on the Missouri River. The refuge surrounds Fort Peck Reservoir and is 915,814 acres (3,706.17 km 2) in size. [2] It is the second-largest National Wildlife Refuge in the lower 48 states of the United States ...
The CSKT Bison Range (BR) is a nature reserve on the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana established for the conservation of American bison. Formerly called the National Bison Range, the size of the bison herd at the BR is 350 adult bison and welcomes between 50-60 calves per year. Established as a National Wildlife Refuge in 1908 ...
The Fort Peck Indian Reservation (Assiniboine: húdam wįcášta, [3] Dakota: Waxchį́ca oyáte[4]) is located near Fort Peck, Montana, in the northeast part of the state. It is the home of several federally recognized bands of Assiniboine, Lakota, and Dakota peoples of Native Americans. With a total land area of 2,094,000 acres (8,470 km 2 ...
The Gates of the Mountains Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1964, the wilderness is managed by Helena National Forest. A day use campground near the Gates of the Mountains, Meriwether Picnic site, is named in honor of Meriwether Lewis. Gates of the Mountains Wilderness (then known as the Gates ...
An adult grizzly bear was photographed in 2023 by a game camera on the PN Ranch northeast of Winifred. [35] The roughly 50,000-acre ranch (20,000 ha) at the mouth of the Judith and Missouri rivers was purchased in 2016 and is the most westerly of AP properties. [36] This is the farthest east a grizzly has been seen in Montana in more than 100 ...
The state's first state game warden was hired in 1889, [6] the same year that Montana became a state. Under Montana state law, each county was also authorized to hire one game warden, but a lack of funds and interest led to no wardens being hired. [5] By 1900, only four of Montana's then-24 counties had game wardens. [5] The Montana State ...
On October 11, 1907, six bulls and nine cows were shipped by rail from the New York Zoological Park to the Wichita National Forest and Game Preserve in Oklahoma. Comanche Chief Quanah Parker came to the train station in Cache where the crates were transferred to horse-drawn wagons and hauled 13 miles (21 km) to the preserve. [ 39 ]
Northwest Montana Wetland Management District: Montana 1970: 14,752 acres (59.70 km 2) [267] Pablo National Wildlife Refuge: Lake County: 1921: 2,473 acres (10.01 km 2) [268] Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge: Beaverhead County: 1932: 65,810 acres (266.3 km 2) [269] Swan River National Wildlife Refuge: Lake County: 1973: 1,568 acres (6.35 ...