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Montana Wildlife Platform

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Welcome to the wild wild web-site for an Observation Registry for the state of Montana.

A bald eagle in flight over a river valley below snow-covered Montana peaks
Montana · In the field

The book

Where the Wild Still Rules.

Montana — geology to the present. Open it and turn the pages.

  • Eighteen chapters

    From glacial lakes and deep time through nations, gold, copper, war, parks, and the questions Montana still asks.

  • Read it like a book

    Open the cover, turn the pages. Keyboard arrows or swipe — and this browser remembers where you stopped.

  • With a soundtrack

    Henry Colter wrote a song for every chapter. Play the journey while you read.

Henry Colter

Listen

Henry Colter

The Land Remembers

One song for every chapter of Montana: Where the Wild Still Rules. Hear the album while you follow the book across the state.

Explore by Species

Montana's living index

Complete database

All

Browse all species

Open the index

Field

Record what you see. Share what you find.

Field is where observations, community tools, and intelligence live — for people who go outside, not open browsing on the public site.

  • Guided sighting records with privacy you choose
  • Nest and den sites stay generalized on public maps
  • Feed, patterns, and intel — inside Field

Public site vs Field

wildlife.mt
Story, species encyclopedia, and fine-art prints — open to everyone.
eye.wildlife.mt · Field
Observations, community, and field tools — Field access.

Open Lab

Explore the patterns behind the observations.

Compare periods, examine wildlife patterns, and export the results behind each run from the working analysis space on Field.

From the Field

Original photography & observation stories

Museum-quality field work tied to real species knowledge — clearly labeled, honestly presented, locations generalized.

Great Blue Herons on nest platforms in cottonwoods above a western Montana valley
Great Blue Herons at a western Montana cottonwood colony, late July. Adults and young share the nest platform while valley fields dry below. Exact colony locations remain protected.
Bald Eagle soaring over a Montana river valley
Bald Eagle over a mountain river corridor — generalized place only.
Bald Eagle in a Montana river with prey
Adult with prey on open river water.
Pair of Great Blue Herons on a branch
Paired watch on a cottonwood snag, western Montana.
More field notes and photography →

Observation Registry

An open record of Montana wildlife.

Anyone can log what they saw — species, date, and a general place. No coordinates, ever: county or watershed is all we ask and all we store. Every record gets a permanent ID you can look up any time.

Sensitive species are generalized before anything is published. That is not a setting you or we can switch off.

Counting records…