Montana FWP’s calendar is a good reminder that a “wildlife agency” is really a dozen different jobs wearing one badge: on Thursday, Nov. 12, 4:00–5:30 p.m., anyone curious enough — kids very much included — can spend ninety minutes at Montana WILD in Helena (2668 Broadwater Ave) learning native fish from the inside out, scales, gills, heart and swim bladder and all, during a guided dissection that requires registration (406-444-9941); then on Tuesday, Nov. 17 the agency spends one evening in the Flathead doing two very different things — at 5:00 p.m. it sits down with private landowners at F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber in Columbia Falls to talk through the conservation easements that keep that land privately owned and taxed while still protecting habitat and holding your access open (questions to Leah Breidinger, lbreidinger@mt.gov), and at 6:00 p.m. it swaps biology for storytelling at Lone Pine State Park in Kalispell, tracing how James J. Hill’s Great Northern Railway arrived in 1892 and, within a dozen years, helped create Kalispell, give rise to Whitefish and shape Glacier National Park — guts, working lands and railroad history in a single week, all worth sticking on the fridge, and you can see what else is happening here by clicking this link: https://www.montanafwpevents.com/.
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