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Yellow Columbine “bee butt” in HaskillBasin
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A spawning pair of Bull Trout feeding and resting in a deep, dark pool in between building their spawning nest otherwise known as a redd.
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Great Northern “grouse, log, grass”
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Tiny MycenaCaps at Lost Johnny Creek
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A red tailed hawk’s leftovers hang in the low branches of a western larch, in the Red Shiner project area on the TLRD.
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Huckleberry Heaven! Bushes laden with thumbnail sized huckleberries at an undisclosed location
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A backpacker on the Alpine 7 trail takes a moment to enjoy the view of Warrior Mountain
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Fireweed ablaze -A sign of late summer on Big Mountain
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Whitebark pine is a keystone species in decline.Classified as a stone pine, the seeds lack wingsand the trees depend on birds and squirrels for dispersal.Because the seeds are also a valuable, nutrient-dense food source for wildlife.Thomaridge.
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Weeds are beautiful, too. Pictured: orange and yellow Hawkweed, and a small unopened bloom of Oxeye Daisy growing along the road.
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Lone Huck: Haskill-Slide Huck, just waiting to be plucked.
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Breaking above the clouds overlooking the middle fork.
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Sage in the grass
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A cold, quiet ride up the East Rim chair on Big Mountain
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Cracking under cornices…maybe we should ski a different slope.
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Horseback riding on National Forest lands isn't just a summertime hobby. Near belly deep snow isn't enough to stop this rider from enjoying the snowy landscape on the Tally Lake Ranger District near Ashley Lake.
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Packing out a steel drum from the Great Bear Wilderness and making the best of it.
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Roving Ranger Table Talk: Ranger Sage holding a bear skull during a “Biodiversity of Big Mountain” talk
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Performing Whitebark pine cone assessment on the top of Big Mountain, a member of the silviculture crew scans the top of the trees with binoculars to see how many cones have been produced this year. TLRD.
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River Ranger on the oars, Upper North Fork of the Flathead River.
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Corey Scevers and Waylon preparing for backcountry patrol. Granite Cabin, Great Bear Wilderness.
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Loading stock at Granite Cabin
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There's not always a good place to stand.
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A whitebark pine seedling planted in 2013 is thriving in its new home near Werner Peak on the Tally Lake Ranger District.
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Barely visible through the scales of an old cone, a whitebark pine seed is sprouting. Found near Werner Peak on the Tally Lake Ranger District.
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A young seedling casts a big shadow. In the Valley Face project area, Tally Lake Ranger District.
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By mid-September, only the shells remain of whitebark pine cones, highly prized as a nutritional commodity in the Forest. All the seeds have been consumed or cached. Thoma ridge, Hungry Horse-Glacier View Ranger District.
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White pine cones, easily identified by their resemblance to a banana, hang from the branches of a young tree. On Mount Swaney, Tally Lake Ranger District.
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On Tally Lake Ranger District, a healed over doug fir stump exhibiting the power of below-ground mycelial connections among trees.
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A cluster of tiny western red cedar seedlings in their first year of growth. Swan Lake Ranger District.
