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Tag: conservation

High Water Marks

September 16, 2025 Outside Media Leave a comment

by Leah Veress

How one volunteer organization is working to restore coldwater fisheries.

Each year for the past three decades, volunteers scatter like windblown mayflies across the lower Madison River for the annual Madison-Gallatin Trout Unlimited (MGTU) end-of-summer river cleanup. … Read more...

  • Conservation
  • Fall-Winter 2025

By the Numbers: Cutt to the Chase

September 16, 2025 Outside Media Leave a comment

by Leah Veress

Understanding the threats to cutthroat populations.

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  • Conservation
  • Fall-Winter 2025

Top Choice

September 16, 2025 Outside Media Leave a comment

by Don Thomas

What makes the west slope cutthroat so special?

It’s mid-September on a remote mountain stream that shall go unnamed for reasons understood by all serious anglers. The ambience could not provide a starker contrast to my last … Read more...

  • Conservation
  • Fall-Winter 2025

Silver Bullet

May 19, 2025 Outside Media Leave a comment

by Carson Sprague

Montana’s small-bodied, big-finned native, the arctic grayling.

Arctic grayling are as Montana as it gets. Scattered mostly across the southwestern corner of the state, these unique, beautiful fish have long been overlooked by anglers preferring the standard … Read more...

  • Spring-Summer 2025

Reel Concerns for the Big Hole

May 19, 2025 Outside Media Leave a comment

What does the future hold for Montana’s most iconic river?

by Dave Hemphill

Montana’s Big Hole River has been considered one of the Treasure State’s gems by anglers for nearly 150 years. It gained attention in the late 1800s when … Read more...

  • Conservation
  • Spring-Summer 2025

Watershed Warriors

December 31, 2024 Outside Media Leave a comment

by Dave Hemphill

Not all heroes wear capes. Some don fishing waders and hold law degrees. The folks who form the Upper Missouri Waterkeeper are such people. Working to protect Montana’s Upper Missouri River Basin, an area that covers 25,000 … Read more...

  • Culture
  • Fall-Winter 2024

Do What the River Tells You

December 30, 2024 Outside Media Leave a comment

by Fischer Genau

Craig Mathews approaches the Madison River, rod in hand, but instead of plunging into the current to stalk trout, he sits down and waits. He listens to the slurp and burble of the river. He watches an … Read more...

  • Fall-Winter 2024
  • People

Guarding the Gallatin

August 28, 2023 Outside Media Leave a comment

by Scott Bosse

And what tools can be used to do so.

Anyone with a soul who has ever fished, paddled, or even just laid eyes on the Gallatin River wants to see it protected. More than any feature in … Read more...

  • Conservation

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