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A new study indicates that 70 percent of Montana students think there was more wildlife in the state 100 years ago than there is today. These students-our next generation of hunters-have been led to believe that the golden age of wildlife was during the time of cowboys and miners and log-cabin pioneers. A new book, Montana's Wildlife Legacy, aims to change that misperception.

A century ago, the mountains and plains of Montana were virtually devoid of wildlife. Unregulated hunting by homesteaders, loggers and trappers, and wholesale habitat conversion by settlers, pushed the Treasure State's previously abundant wildlife to a few pockets of wilderness and protected parkland.

In 1900, the only elk in Montana were a handful roaming the remote South Fork Flathead River, and less than 3,000 antelope remained on the eastern prairie. The few dozen bison that had escaped hide hunters were living on Alloy Troll Beads Cheap welfare in newly created Yellowstone National Park, and mule deer, bighorn sheep and mountain goats were reduced to a few individuals in remote habitats.

Now, of course, it's hard to imagine Montana without the sound of an elk bugle on a frosty fall morning or the sight of a pronghorn antelope dashing across the open plains.

The story of the loss and recovery of Montana's wild heritage is detailed in first-person accounts and archival photos. The book, by Harold Picton and Terry Lonner, documents how a handful of newly minted wildlife biologists, most of them WWII veterans, engineered a trap-and-transplant program that returned species as diverse as moose and mink to their native range.

The book details early wildlife restoration by local sportsmen's clubs and landowners, some of whom carried away Yellowstone Park's Australia Chrysoprase elk in their own stock trailers to repopulate the state. But the effort accelerated with the first professional wildlife managers, who often lived alone in remote cabins for months at a time as they inventoried the remaining herds and jerry-rigged mechanisms to trap and relocate animals to other parts of the state.

Modern hunters owe a huge debt to these pioneers of wildlife management, and Picton and Lonner have compiled an essential record that shows us just how far we have come.

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