December 2008

Christmas light and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Wayne Mumford December 27, 2008

Northwest Montana has crept back up into some more tolerable temperatures the last couple days and it is still snowing. Tomorrow it may even break the freezing mark; a veritable heat wave. Meanwhile, I took a few minutes to admire the seasonal light show and ponder the next ice fishing excursion. We hope you are [...]

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Weather Squirrels

by Wayne Mumford December 24, 2008

I knew there had to be a reason for such a quick change in the weather. I think one stick is good enough for now.

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Why does snow have to be cold?

by Wayne Mumford December 22, 2008

If you live in Montana, snow and cold in winter is just a fact of life. This year, by late November we had no snow to hunt in, skiers were SOL and the usual end of the month run on snow was nowhere to be found. The first week of Decemeber rolls in and the [...]

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More on wolves and deer

by Wayne Mumford December 17, 2008

Yesterday I wrote about wolf predation on deer and made a couple extrapolations on the extent to which deer might be effecting western Montana deer populations. Turns out I was wrong on on total numbers of deer killed by hunters, that according to fish and game, was 1,532 bucks and does for 2008. I do [...]

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More wolves than you can count?

by Wayne Mumford December 16, 2008

Maybe I’m reading to much into this, but it sounds like Kent Laudon, state Fish, Wildlife and Parks wolf management specialist hasn’t got enough man power to count all the wolves running around in Montana’s Region one. That brings up the question, if he had more people and money to spend on monitoring wolf packs; [...]

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Montana Snow Pack 12/14/08

by Wayne Mumford December 14, 2008

With winter solstice a week away and a mild but pretty wet fall behind us the weather has definitely finally turned cold. The arctic blast that is now effecting most of the north country is setting in hard here in northwest Montana. Temperatures are hanging around 0°F today with windchill coming in around -20° and [...]

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Cheaper Steaks

by Wayne Mumford December 8, 2008

It’s been awhile since I have run into something really odd or just outright weird; even scary. While working this weekend I ran into a guy that presented me with this two-headed calf stuck in the back room of his house. I guess it’s from somewhere around Browning, Montana; the metropolitan center of the Blackfeet [...]

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The End of the Innocence

by Wayne Mumford December 4, 2008

Alas, I descend into that carnal, watery abyss with the likes of Buster Wants to Fish, Moldy Chum, Singlebarbed, and the Trout Underground- just to name a few of the lower spots in the pool; a place where fish and fishing sometimes become the wallpaper for what’s really swirling around in those subconscious back eddies [...]

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