Montana Naturalist
Published 3 times a year, Montana
Naturalist magazine integrates the news of the Montana
Natural History Center with news on natural history. A
unique blend of articles features current research, highlights
student’s work and shares notes from the field. Download
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Naturalist advertising rate sheet
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Articles and photographs should be submitted
to the Montana Naturalist editor, Caroline Kurtz.
Please call Caroline
at 327-0405 for more information.
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Naturalist or to add your name
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Winter 2006-07 |
Features
- End of Year Appeal - 14 Ways to get
involved!
Special Issue
Download PDF of this Special Issues and learn more
about how you can make the difference
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Fall 2006 |
Features
- Bear Gulch Fossils
- Floods, Flora and Fauna
Departments
- Tidings
- Get Outside Guide: Observing climate
change, making an insect collection, event
- Community Focus: Lessons from the
land
- Far Afield: Discoveries from Montana's
last best river
- Imprints: An inspiring exhibit, RiverFest
2006, new evening series, auction info and more
- Magpie Market
- Reflections: "Woodpecker," by Sandra
Alcosser
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Spring 2006 |
Features
- Absent Amphibians: What's happened
to the northern leopard frog?
- On the Road: Making highways safer
for wildlife and people.
Departments
- Tidings
- Get Outside Guide: Night Creatures,
dark skies over Montana, hanging around with bats
- Community Focus: A conversation with
Elizabeth Dilbeck
- Far Afield: Birding along the Smith
River
- Imprints: Summer camps, tools for
teachers, calling all artists, forest inspirations
- Magpie Market
- Reflections: Hilltop visions
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Winter 2005-2006 |
Features
- Enter the World of Lichens: Tim Wheeler
explores these tiny united kingdoms
- Of Bats and Bridges: Findings from
the Montana Natural Heritage Program
Departments
- Tidings
- Get Outside Guide: Montana owls, snowfleas,
coping with cold, feeding birds in winter
- Community Focus: Lessons learned from
"The Pines of Primm Meadows."
- Far Afield: Developing a sense of
place in Montana.
- Imprints: Why particpate?, 2005 Educator
Awards, gift bear, note to Santa
- Magpie Market
- Reflections: Kootenai Creek
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Fall 2005
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Features
- Ethnobotany: Annie Mad Plume Wall shares
her knowledge of native plants
- Geologic Observations: On the Lewis
& Clark Trail
Departments
- Tidings
- Get Outside Guide: Be a weather forecaster,
where do insects go when it's cold?
- Community Focus: Colstrip students'
research projects serve a purpose
- Far Afield: Woody draws of eastern
Montana
- Imprints: MNHC Grand Opening, RiverFest
2005!, save these dates!
- Magpie Market
- Reflections: Pieces of a new paleo-ecology
exhibit.
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Spring/ Summer 2005 |
Features
- Masters of Disguise: Those clever catepillars
- A Level Playing Field: The biocontrol
of invasive weeds
Departments
- Tidings
- Get Outside Guide: Hiking with Kids
- Community Focus: Discover the Bitterroot
Birding Trail
- Far Afield: Prairie Songbirds put on
a show
- Imprints: MNHC needs you! Saturday
Discovery Days, Summer Science Day Camps
- Magpie Market
- Reflections: A bird-watcher's musing
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Winter 2004-2005
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Features
- Restoring the Rhythm: Wolves enrich
entire ecosystem
- Where the Wild Things Are: Winter wildlife
watching in Yellowstone
- Hot Water: Montana's Thermal Treasures
Departments
- Tidings
- Get Outside Guide: Fun with and in
snow, winter reading list, "things to see and
do" calendar
- Community Focus: 2004 Natural History
Educator Awards
- Far Afield: Twenty below? Let's head
to the lake!
- Imprints: Build a nature center, opportunities
to learn and do, why donate?
- Magpie Market
- Reflections: An eye on winter
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Fall 2004 |
Feature
- Celebration or Wake?: Ecological impacts
of forest fire
Departments
- Tidings: Good news from the Executive
Director
- Get Outside Guide: A naturalist's backpack
for fall, fall activity calendar and a fall naturalist
scavenger hunt
- Community Focus: How fire shapes forests
in the Northern Rockies
- Far Afield: Recovery of endangered
falcon an unqualified success
- Imprints: Exploring nature on Saturdays;
Dark skies over Montana; Trunkfuls of wonder and experience;
Riverfest 2004
- Magpie Market
- Reflections: A naturalist's sketches
of a burn area
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Spring 2004 |
OUT OF STOCK - Feature
- Spring Beauty: Montana's native wildflowers
Departments
- Tidings: Good news from the Executive
Director
- Get Outside Guide: Landscaping with
native plants, make a flower press, nearby nature
and more
- Community Focus: 2004 Natural History
Educator Awards
- Far Afield: Sharpies perform at Medicine
Lake Wildlife Refuge
- Imprints: A new home for MNHC; Winton
Weydemeyer collection; Visiting Naturalists in schools
- Magpie Market
- Reflections: Thoughts on a backyard
ghost
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