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Montana Tales & Trails Town & Country
April Is Spring FURNITURE
by Bruce Auchly
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Homelegance Reclining Sofa &
’Tis spring, the time when a young male’s fancy Reclining Loveseat @ $999 for the pair!
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Humans are such an odd lot. Animals – under Reynold’s Market Shopping Center 228-9386
water, on the ground or in air – simply are driven by
the survival of their species. move alongside her and release his milt over the
We fret about home loans, school choice or eggs, fertilizing them.
health insurance. Wild creatures do not. And that’s it. The pair swim away and let nature
Of course, those critters don’t rush to the take its course. In a month or two the eggs will
hospital when sick, play music when sad or have hatch. Pretty simple, really.
barbeques on the Fourth of July. It’s unclear what causes a bear to emerge from
Animal behavior is largely driven by daylight its winter den, especially when the den lies under
length. And right now, we are gaining daylight by several feet of snow.
leaps and bounds, at least a minute a day and often Warming temperatures, increasing day length,
several minutes daily. snow melting around a den entrance, and the smells
Life rushes by like a southbound freight for most of spring probably all play a role. Eventually bears
animal species: Hurry up and mate, raise young, will move from their high elevation dens to lower,
prepare for next winter. warmer habitats, looking for early green plants.
The month of April at our latitude can start In a lush, wet spring, plants like angelica and
with temperatures more like winter but end with cow parsnip dominate nature’s menu and life is
bull elk growing a new set of antlers, rainbow trout good.
depositing eggs in the gravel of rivers and streams, But if the prairie is too dry and there’s not much
and reports of grizzlies out of their dens on the to eat conflicts between bears and humans may
Rocky Mountain Front. happen. So far this year, it would appear that a dry
The mammoth headgear on a mature bull elk spring may be the least of our worries.
can weigh as much as 40 pounds and take a long This spring should be a good one for fish, frogs
time to grow, about five months. That means within and boat salesmen.
a week or two of dropping the old antlers in March In the meantime, enjoy April as it unfolds
those two bumps (pedicles) on top of a bull elk’s and soak it all in because all too soon, we will be
head will start to bulge, then grow into antlers. complaining about the heat of summer.
Wild rainbow trout breed in the spring, often
peaking from mid-April to mid-May, in rivers and
streams with gravel bottoms. Those requirements BS
are important for a couple of reasons.
First, the flowing water in a river or stream CENTRAL
provides oxygen, which keeps the eggs alive.
Second, gravel helps protect eggs from predators. Printin’
And a silt bottom could smother and kill the eggs. Advertisin’
When it’s time to spawn based on daylight & the Occasional Passport Pic
length and warming water temperature (at least in bscentral@nemont.net • 515 2nd Ave. S • (406) 228-4558
the mid-40’s), a female rainbow will clear a slight
depression, called a redd, in gravel with her tail, Question: What did the drummer get
then deposit 2,000 to 3,000 eggs. on his IQ test?
As she releases her eggs, a male rainbow will
Answer: Drool.
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