Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Bringing back grizzlies splits environmentalists, in a special issue about collaboration in the West. Hank Fischer runs the Northern Rockies’ office of Defenders of Wildlife. He lives in Missoula, Mont. I think the timber people share some of our frustrations with this endless […]
Hank Fischer
Posted inMay 15, 1981: No room in this field for the young
What’s seven feet tall, lays $200 eggs, reproduces slower than an elephant, and has been around since the days of the pterodactyl?
Montana’s highly unique paddlefish, a relic from the days of dinosaurs, now faces twentieth century problems, including that a large commercial market has developed for its eggs, which are valuable for caviar. Download entire issue to view this article: http://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/13.10/download-entire-issue%3C/p%3E