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		<title>Whitefish Grizzly Bear Rendezvous a Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 21:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Bettas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[August was a perfect time for the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Foundation’s Grizzly Bear Rendezvous which was held at the Lodge at Whitefish Lake, Whitefish, Montana.  We checked the Farmers’ Almanac to find the best day of the summer for the event and it all panned out perfectly. Jack Hanna was our emcee for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Hanna Appointed to Honorary Board Status with Montana FWP Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Bettas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Hanna Jack Hanna, television personality and  Director Emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has been appointed as an honorary director of the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Foundation.   Jack&#8217;s media appearances have made him one of the most notable animal experts in the United States. Hanna is well-known throughout Montana where he and his wife, Suzi, have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foundation Executive Director Hegstad Retires</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Bettas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spence and his wife, Lil, at Spence&#8217;s Retirement Celebration Spencer &#8220;Spence&#8221; Hegstad, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Foundation&#8217;s Executive Director retired on December 31, 2011.   Spence served the Foundation as it&#8217;s Executive Director since the Foundation was created in 1999 with the mission of raising private funds for projects beyond the scope of where Montana&#8217;s Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department can spend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Haugen  Appointed to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Foundation Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Bettas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Foundation board of directors recently announced the appointment of Gordon Haugen to the board. He will serve as the chair of the Foundation’s Projects and Program’s Committee which is responsible for the Foundation’s Montana-based programs and broadening its organizational relationships with regional and national non-profit conservation organizations. This committee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Outfitter Partners in Conservation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Bettas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Foundation’s Outfitter Partners in Conservation program provides an opportunity for licensed Montana guides and outfitters to contribute to the Mission and Visions of the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Foundation.  Outfitters and guides participate in this program through cash donations or donated hunts, trips, and/or goods and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter 2010 Newsletter Available On-Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Bettas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The  Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Foundation&#8217;s Winter 2010 Newsletter is available as a PDF! Download the PDF (Acrobat Reader Required)]]></description>
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		<title>Jack Hanna&#8217;s &#8220;Into the Wild&#8221; to feature MFWPF Grizzly Bear Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Bettas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by George Bettas With a great deal of anticipation over much of the past year we worked with Jack Hanna and his staff to arrange for Jack and his film crew to come to Montana and accompany us into the field to see and videotape our grizzly bear work in Northwestern Montana.  Jack and his wife, Suzi, have been wonderful supporters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donor Stewardship Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Bettas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We believe that the best way for our donors to understand our projects is to come out into the field with us to see what we are doing. Until you observe the capture, immobilization and work up of a grizzly bear in the field, it&#8217;s difficult to comprehend the full scope of this project.   Carolyn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wolverine Filmed as Part of Grizzly Bear Augmentation Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Bettas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wolverine is considered to be the &#8220;holy grail&#8221; when it comes to filming animals in the wild, largely because of its reclusive nature.  We have had wolverines around our trap sites for quite a while, but we have never captured one on one of our remote cameras.  This September we got this one on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUCCESS!  2009 Augmentation Female Grizzly Moved to Cabinet Mountains!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Bettas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Heather Reich August Update During the month of August, due to heat, we kept the culvert trap doors locked open and just ran the traps as bait sites, consulting the cameras for identification of who had visited.  During the month we had a couple of subadult males frequent our sites, so we knew, when [...]]]></description>
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