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Dear Raccoon: What are you?

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The raccoon, with its eyes cloaked in a bandit-style mask and its unique ring-patterned tail, is a regular part of our ecosystem at Dunrovin. We see them on the bench cam at night, often right alongside the deer cleaning up seeds and suet. Even so, …

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Ranch Notes 5/24/20

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Spring is in full flow at Dunrovin Ranch. The river pulls the weight of logs and other flotsam as they speed by, flooding the riparian, not uncommon for this time of year. With more rain in the forecast, Kate is going to have to be content for now …

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Ranch Notes 5/17/2020

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Twelve years in Montana has taught me many things, and the significance and nuance of color is one of them.  How brief it lasts, this green! I remind myself of that hard fact every time I step outside these days. Soak it in, drink it up, breathe it …

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Ranch Notes 5-10-20

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Ducks must have exceptionally good hearing.  No matter how stealthy Kate was on her great stalk, off they’d go with a quick flap and a whisper of wind. But Kate will not be deterred. SERIES: Ranch Notes; STORY: Ducks at Dunrovin humbled by …

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The Rhythm of Spring

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While the ospreys take center stage at Dunrovin, there's this little transformation afoot on the ranch below called spring. Waters rise. We're seeing the earth awaken in its soft, gentle colors and sprigs of growth as plants and animals begin their …

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The Perennial Miracle of Spring

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  STORY: April in Montana is full of tweets and twitters. Our feathery friends bear all of the radical spring elements while wooing, mating, establishing nests, defending nests, and raising their first clutches of chicks.  The perennial …

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