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Spring in the Rockies means a renewal by Mother Nature. Maybe we can learn from her. – Daily Montanan [1]

['More From Author', 'April', 'George Ochenski']

Date: 2023-04-21  

It’s springtime in the Rockies, where one day record high temperatures sweep the state and the next day we have winter storm warnings.

In between the freeze-thaw cycle, the snowpack begins to melt, once again filling the rivers to full and beyond. It’s nature in all its incredible diversity and wonder — and in Montana, Mother Nature still calls the shots but she gets a significant helping hand from citizen environmentalists and conservationists.

Thousands of snow geese just passed through Montana on their northward migration. For conservationists, it’s very rewarding to see the positive result of tirelessly advocating to preserve the habitat on which these massive flocks rely going north, coming south or overwintering far from Montana’s northern flyway.

As the brown hills begin to “green up,” you can almost feel the joy of the elk, deer, and antelope finally getting something fresh to eat besides dried brown forage, sagebrush and pine needles. And again, these healthy populations of native wildlife are proof that the efforts to maintain them — including banning game farms by citizen initiative to keep them disease-free — have again proven their worth. Soon enough, new fawns and calves will be frolicking with the herds.

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