Vol. 15 No. 4 December (2009)

Published: 2009-12-31

Full Issue

Independent Refereed Articles

New Zealand Mudsnail Containment: Tests of Chemicals, Copper Strips, Fluorochrome Marking and Terrestrial Movement

Randall W. Oplinger, Eric J. Wagner

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Effects of a 6-Week Jump Training Program Combined with Two Lifting Programs

John Amtmann, Jeremy Basler, Charles S. Todd, Shawn Vincent

54-57
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MT American Fisheries Society & MT Wildlife Society Joint Meeting Abstracts

The Montana Chapter of the American Fisheries Society and The Montana Chapter of the Wildlife Society 2009 Joint Conference Abstracts Adapting Fish and Wildlife Management to Human Demographic Change in Montana

Scott Barndt, Joe Weigand

58-114
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Individualized Meeting Abstracts

Adapting Fish and Wildlife Management to Human Demogrpahic Change in Montana

Scott Barndt, Joe Weigand

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Montana's Widlife Legacy - Decimation to Restoration

Harold Picton, Terry Lonner

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Chris Hunter's Interpretation of Hugh Zackheim's History of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Fisheries Division 1901-2005

Chris Hunter

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The Montana Challenge

SuzAnne M. Miller

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Fish and Wildlife Values in the West

Michael J. Manfredo, Tara L. Teel

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Greater Yellowstone Area Elk Movements: Brucellosis Risk and Hunter Access

Kenneth L. Hamlin, Julie A. Cunningham, Thomas O. Lemke

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A Fishery Manager's Challenge

Jim Vashro

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Hunter Access - A Moving Target for Managers

Alan Charles

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Protecting Public Resources on Private Land: Adapting Business Strategies to Changing Demographics and Demands

David Greera

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Perspective of a Non-Traditional Landowner/Manager

Russ Miller

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Montana's Landowners: Management Implications of Montana's Changing Demographics for Water Rights

Stan Bradshaw

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Changing Human Demographics Influence Forest Service Management in Montana

Jane Cotrell

64
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Stream Access: Past, Present and Future

Robert N. Lane

64
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The Future Ain't What It Used To Be!

Bruce Farling

64
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Rural Stakeholders and Arctic Grayling Management in the Big Hole River Watershed, Montana, USA

Michelle L. Anderson, Kylene Owens, Michael A. Bias

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Diversion Dams and Fish Passage - Don't Give Up the Fight!

Mike Backes

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Competition as a Factor in Displacement of Native Cut Throat Trout by Nonnative Rainbow and Hybrid Trout

Laurie Battle, Robert Van Kirk, Bill Schrader

66
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Perspectives on Not Lsiting the Fluvial Arctic Grayling

Michael A. Bias

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Toxicity of Rotenone to Larval Amphibians

Hilary G. Billman, Sophie St. Hilaire, Charles R. Peterson, Carter G. Kruse

66-67
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Bull Trout Monitoring; Look Deep and Wide

Chris Clancy, Mike Jakober

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Population Characteristics of Lake Trout in Swan Lake, MT

Benjamin S. Cox, Christopher S. Guy, Wade A. Fredenberg, Leo R. Rosenthal

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Cutthroat Trout Struggle for Persistence in the Face of an Expanding Lake Trout Population in Yellowstone Lake

Philip D. Doepke, Patricia E. Bigelow, Brian D. Ertel, Todd M. Koel

68-69
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Estimating Lake Survival of Juvenile Bull Trout in Trestle Creek, Idaho in the Presence of Changing Fish Communities, Land Use, and Fish Management

Christopher C. Downs, Rob Jakubowski, Rob Ryan

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Bull Trout Entrainment at Libby Dam in the Kootenai River, Montana

Jim Dunnigan

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Patterns of Trout Survival and Movement Before and After Logging on Industrail Forest Lands

Robert E. Gresswell, Aaron M. Berger, Douglas S. Bateman, David Hockman-Werta

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Avian Piscivoress Vector in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Todd M. Koel, Billie L. Kerans, Scott C. Barras, Katie C. Hanson, John S. Wood

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Landscape Conserevation and the Big Hole CCAA Program

Nathan Korb

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Reduced Genetic Variation in Upper Missouri River Drainage Westslope Cutthroat Trout Populations Appears to be Due to Historical and Contemporary Factors

Robb F. LEary, Sally Painter, Steve Amish, Angela Lodmell, Fred W. Allendorf, John H. Powell

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A Fish Hatchery's Role in a Changing Montana

Mark G. Maskill

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Hybridization Rapidly Reduces Fitness of Native Cutthroat Trout in the Wild

Clint C. Muhlfeld, Steven T. Kalinowski, Thomas E. McMahon, Mark L. Taper, Sally Painter, Fred W. Allendorf, Robb F. Leary

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Effects of Large Wood Placement on Channel Morphology and Aquatic Habitat Hallowat Creek, North Fork Flathead River Drainage, Montana

John Muhlfeld, Jonathan Ferree

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Creating Wildlife Habitat and Expanding Fisheries with Biohaven Floating Treatment Wetlands

Tim Mulholland P.E., Christine Pierce

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An Overview of the Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances Program, with Special Reference to the Big Hole River, Montana

Douglas P. Peterson

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Genetic Variation, Ancestry and Population Structure in Native Arctic Grayling in the Upper Missouri River

Douglas P. Peterson, William R. Arden

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The East Fork Specimen Creek Westslope Cutthroat Trout Restoration Project: The Good, The Bad, and the Smokey

Michael E. Ruhl, Todd M. Koel, Jeffrey L. Arnold, Brian D. Ertel

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Climate Change Mediates the Spatial Partitioning of Sculpin and Longnose Dace Leading to Trophic Cascades in Riverine Ecosystems of Western Montana

David A. Schmetterling, Robert Clark, Susan B. Adams, Michael K. Young

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Watershed-Scale Approach to Assessing Colorado River Cutthroat Trout Abundance and Habitat in the Upper Colorado River Headwaters

Ted R. Sedell, Robert E. Gresswell

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Recovery of Westlope Cutthroat Trout Populations Following Removal of Nonnative Brook Trout

Bradley B. Shepard, Mark L. Taper, Alexander V. Zale

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Spatial and Temporal Fish Entrainment from Hauser Reservoir, Montana

Justin p. Spinelli, Alexander V. Zale

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Mercury Contamination in the Fishes of Glacier National Parl

Craig Stafford, Chris Downs, Heiko Langner, Elizabeth McGarry

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Adjusting Lake Trout Ages Versus Otolith Mass Relationships for Variable Growth

Craig Stafford, Dale Hanson

79
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Are Lake Trout in Flathead Lake Morphologically and Genetically Segregated by Depth?

Craig Stafford, Lisa Eby, Fred Allendorf, Megan McPhee

80
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Western Pearlshell Mussel Distribution & Status in Montana: Two Years, Later It's Worse Than We Thought!

David M. Stagliano

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Proposed Coal Mining and Coal-Bed Methane Development Threaten Aquatic Resources in the Transboundary Flathead Ecosystem

Amber C. Steed, Clint C. Muhlfeld, Erin K. Sexton

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Analysis of Population Metrics to Assess the Efficacy of Lake Trout Suppression in Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park

John M. Syslo, Christopher S. Guy, Patricia E. Bigelow, Philip D. Doepke, Todd M. Koel

81-82
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Determining Morphological and Biochemical Parameters Associated with Early Ovarian Follicular Atresia in White Sturgeon Females

Mariah J. Talbott, Christopher S. Guy, Joel P. Van Eenennaam, Javier Linares-Casenave, Serge I. Doroshov, Molly A.H. Webb

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Distribution, Abundance, and Age Structure of Juvenile Bull Trout in a Tributary to Quartz Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana

Lora B. Tennant, Christopher S. Guy, Robert E. Gresswell

83
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Montana Unauthorized Fish Introductions

Jim Vashro

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Lifetime Movement Patterns of Cutthroat Trout in a Stream Network

Michael K. Young

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Response of Non-Target Organisms from Toenone Treatments Within the East Fork Specimen Creek Drainage, Yellowstone National Park

Jeffrey L. Arnold, Todd M. Koel, Brian D. Ertel, Michael E. Ruhl

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Impacts of Two Small Dams on Migratory Bull Trout in Clearwater River, Montana

Aubree Benson, Lisa Eby, Ladd Knotek, John Thabes

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Management of Anthropogenically Derived Hybrid Populations: Explicit Recognition of Assumptions

Matthew P. Corsi, Paul Spruell, Charles E. Corsi

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Identifying Lake trout Spawning Locations in Swan Lake, Montana

Benjamin S. Cox, Christopher S. Guy, Leo R. Rosenthal

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Lake Trout Removal Efforts Continue in Yellowstone Lake

Philip D. Doepke, Patricia E. Bigelow, Brian D. Ertel, Todd M. Koel

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Restoring the Balance: The Fish & Wildlife Programs at the Creston Fish & Wildlife Center

Don Edsall, Rox Rogers, Bob Lee

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Arctic Grayling Emergence and Development in Odell Creek, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Montana

Rebekah Levine, Jeffrey M. Warren, Glenn Boltz

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Are Reservoirs Ecological Sinks for Recruitment of Pallid Sturgeon?

Steven H. Ranney, Christopher S. Guy, Molly A.H. Webb, Kevin M. Kappenman, William M. Gardner

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Movement and Spawning Locations of Shovelnose Sturgeon and Pallid Sturgeon in the Missouri River Above Fort Peck Reservoir

Ryan R. Richards, Christopher S. Guy, Susan L. Camp, William M. Gardner

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Large Woody Debris Depletion Rates in Western Montana Streams

Brian Sugden, Ron Steiner

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Montana Unauthorized Fish Introductions

Jim Vashro

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Viability of User-Paid System of Wildlife Conservation in Montana

Thomas R. Baumeister, Jeffrey T. Herbert, Mike Lewis, Justin A. Gude, Julie A. Cunningham

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Wolf Prey Preferences in Multiple Prey Systems: Insights from the Madison Headwaters of Yellowstone National Park

Matthew S. Becker, Robert A. Garrott, Claire N. Gower, Patrick J. White

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GIS-Based Tools to Improve Land Use Planning for Wildlife Conservation

Brent L. Brock, Lance Craighead

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Winter Distribution, Habitat Use, and Browse Utilization Patterns of the Shiras Moose on the Mount Haggin Wildlife Management

Braden O. Burkholder, Vanna J. Boccadori, Robert A. Garrott

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Public Opinion and Knowledge of Grizzly Bears in the Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystem

Sarah Canepa, Kimberly M. Annis, Wayne Kasworm

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Montana's Conservation Strategy For Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep

Tom Carlsen

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Grizzly Bear Trend Monitoring Research in the NCDE: An Update, 2004-2008

Tonya Chilton, Richard Mace

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Viability of Resident Deer and Elk Hunter Participation in Montana

Julie A. Cunningham, Just A. Gude, Thomas R. Baumeister, Jeffrey T. Herbert

93-94
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Nutrient Allocation in Egg Formation of Female Lesser Scaup on Lower Red Rock Lake, Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

Kyle A. Cutting, Jay J. Rotella, Jeffrey M. Warren, Susan E. Wainwright, John Y. Takekawa

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Blood-Lead Levels of Fall Migrant Golden Eagles in West-Central Montana

Robert Domenech, Heiko Langner

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A Cooperative Approach to Elk Management in the Wildland/Urban Interface of Missoula, Montana - A Dynamic Strategy for a Growing Problem

Victoria L. Edwards, Shawn M. Cleveland, Bert Lindler

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Effects of Wolf Predation on the Madison Headwaters Elk Herd: Insights for Elk and Wolf Management in Montana

Robert A. Garrott, Patrick J. White, Claire N. Gower, Matthew S. Becker, Kenneth L. Hamlin

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Elk Behavioral Responses to the Reestablishment of Wolves: Integrating Multiple Strategies to Accommodate Competing Demands

Claire N. Gower, Robert A. Garrott, Matthew S. Becker, P.J. White

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Grizzly Bear Population Augmentation in the Cabinet Mountains of Northwest Montana

Wayne Kasworm, Kimberly M. Annis, Timothy Manley, Heather Reich, Derek Reich, Jim Williams, Chris Servheen

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Demography and Genetic Structure of a Recovering Grizzly Bear Population

Katherine C. Kendall, Jeffrey B. Stetz, Amy c. Macleod, John B. Boulanger, David Paetkau, Gary C. White

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Relationships Between Elk and Nonnative Weeds on Montane Winter Ranges in Western Montana

Michel T. Kohl, Mark Hebblewhite, Shawn M. Cleveland

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From Magic to Tragic: The History of Wolf Recovery and Management in Northwest Montana

Kent Laudon

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Why is this Grizzly Bear in my Backyard? Manaing Human/Grizzly Bear Conflicts in Northwest Montana

Timothy L. Manley

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An Ecological Risk Assessment of Wind Energy Development in Montana

Brian H. Martin, Amy J. Pearson, Brad D. Bauer

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Modeling predicted Distribution and Landscape-Level Habitat Suitability for Montana Wildlife Species

Bryce A. Maxell, Scott Story, Joy Ritter

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Status of Lentic Breeding Amphibians and Aquatic Reptiles in Montana

Bryce A. Maxell, Dave Ratz, P. Stephen Corn, D. Grant Hokit

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The Impact of Climate Variation on Columbia Spotted frog Survival in a High Mountain Ecosystem

Rebecca McCaffery, Bryce Maxell

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Hunting Access Management on Private Lands in Montana

Caitlin McCoy, Tara Teel, Mike Lewis

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Public Attitudes Towards Black Bears in Missoula, Montana

Jerod A. Merkle, Paul R. Krausman, Melinda M. Booth

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Assessing Ecological Impacts Due to the Operation of Libby Dam, Montana

Norm Merz, Dwight Bergeron

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Long-Term Monitoring of Osprey Populations in Western Montana

Amanda A. Ormesher, Erick Greene

103-104
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Fat But Not Happy: The Effects of Supplemental Feeding on Stress Hormone Levels of Wyoming Elk

Victoria Patrek, Mark Taper, Scott Creel, Paul Cross

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Changes in Elk Resource Selection and Distributions Associated with the Madison Valley Late-Season Elk Hunt

Kelly M. Proffitt, Robert A. Garrott

104-105
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The Montana Legacy Project - Conservation of Forest Lands in Western Montana

Robert Rasmussen

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Estimation of Balck-Tailed Praire Dog Colony Acreage in Montana

Ryan Rauscher, Scott Story, Justin Gude

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Effects of Cattle Grazing on Small Mammal Communities at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

Greg Reed, Nathan Whelham, Jeffrey M. Warren, Michael R. Frisina

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Recent Advances in the Analysis of Occupancy and Abundance Date in Response to Management Activities

Robin Russell

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As the World Turns: Managing Wolves and Navigating the LEgal Labyrinth

Carolyn A. Sime, Elizabeth Bradley, Kent Laudon, Mike Ross, Nathan Lance, Val Asher

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CCAA Impacts on Birds of the Big Hole Watershed

Kristina Smucker, Megan Fylling, Amy Cilimburg

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Temporal Comparisons of Great Blue Heron Rookery Distribution, Abundance and Reproductive Success in the Lower Yellowstone River Basin

Dean J. Waltee, Ryan L. Rauscher

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Managing Black Bears and Cougars with People Problems

Erik Wenum

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Bird Distribution in Montana: Opportunities for Public Involvement

Catherine Wightman, Scott Story, Coburn Currier

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Patterns of Movement in Black-Backed Woodpeckers

Jennifer C. Woolf, Fred W. Allendorf, Michael Schwartz

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A GIS Tool for Conducting Landscape-Scale Habitat Quality Assessments

Scott D. Yeats, Jonathan B. Haufler, Carolyn A. Mehl

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Modeling Predicted Distribution and Landscape Level Habitat Suitability for Montana Wildlife Species

Bryce A. Maxell, Scott Story, Joy Ritter

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Status of Lentic Breeding Amphibians and Aquatic Reptiles in Montana

Bryce A. Maxell, Dave Ratz, P. Stephen Corn, D. Grant Hokit

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The Pathogenic Chytrid Fungus in Montana Amphibians

Bryce A. Maxell, Blake R. Hossack, P. Stephen Corn, Erin Muths, David S. Pilliod, Janene Lichtenberg, J. Kirwin Werner, Carter Kruse, D. Grant Hokit, D. Earl Green

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Improving Science Literacy Through Visual Communication

Mary McFadzen, Melissa Brown

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Seroprevalence of Canine Parvovirus and Canine Distemper in Wolves in Relation to Human Activity in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Bynne Nelson, Mark Hebblewhite, Todd Shury, Evelyn Merrill, Dale Deip, Nathan Webb, Fiona Schomiegelow, Paul C. Paquet

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Dynamics of a Harvested Moose Population in Southwest Montana

Megan O'Reilly, Jeffrey M. Warren, Bob Brannon

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Effects of Water temperature and Angling on Mortality of Salmonids in Montana Streams

James W. Boyd, Christopher S. Guy, Travis B. Horton, Stephen A. Leathe

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Changes in Angler Use Following an Unauthorized Walleye Introduction in Canyon Ferry Reservoir

Eric L. Roberts, Steven R. Dalbey

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Relationships Among Moose Abundance, Willow Community Structure and Migratory Landbirds at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge

Megan O'Reilly, Karen R. Newlon, Jeffrey M. Warren

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Vol. 15 No. 4 December (2009)

Full Issue

Independent Refereed Articles

MT American Fisheries Society & MT Wildlife Society Joint Meeting Abstracts

Individualized Meeting Abstracts

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