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4K City Walks - Livingston Montana USA - April 20 - Suce Creek Road - Virtual Treadmill Scenery Walk
Mar 17, 2025
It's still too snowy to hike the actual trail but we take you along the access road to the Suce Creek trail head. The views of the valley and forest are wonderful and the sounds of early spring are delightful. We see no bears, which is good because I forgot my bear spray.
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good morning walkers and welcome back to
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Paradise Valley Montana
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today is April 20 it's about 9:00 a.m. I
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would say it's about 35 degrees
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Fahrenheit maybe 2 degrees Celsius 1 to
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2 degrees I'm not sure cuz I can't get a
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cell service here we are starting out at
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the Seuss Creek Trailhead the Seuss
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Creek Trail goes up there loops around
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and then back down to Sue's Creek and
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eventually goes into the absurd
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bear tooth wilderness area we are not
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gonna walk that way I walked up there
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yesterday with my son and it was
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beautiful but very snowy and probably
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not quite ready for a city walks quality
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walk also I forgot my bear spray and
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this is a prime time for grizzly bears
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to be out looking for food and I don't
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want to surprise them I want to let them
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know that I'm around and they will try
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to avoid me I was yelling I walked up
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here and I was yelling hey bear coming
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through all the way up just to let them
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know because they don't want to be
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around people and I don't want to be
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around them at least without something
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solid between us we are going to walk
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down the Seuss Creek Road this goes
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through some private property we are in
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the National Forest right here but then
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the road cuts through some private
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property easements but there is a right
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away so we can walk it we can bike it
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you can ride a horse or you can drive
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are limiting that a little bit our
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ability to go out and film what else
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Oh current situation in Montana I think
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there's about four hundred and thirty
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total positive corona cases there are
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have been unfortunately 10 fatalities
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which is very sad but compared to a lot
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of other places I think we've been
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getting off luckily lucky in large part
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I think because the government shut us
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down and imposed a lot of his
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restrictions early on and tightened
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those as they thought it need to be done
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and I hope that we will continue until
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we have enough testing to guarantee that
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we won't have a second round here I
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think we will have to open up some time
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obviously but for now until we can get
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do it right I think we should should not
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that's my personal opinion what else it
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is a beautiful day here no wind which is
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obviously pretty unusual you can see
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this is the road and the road is not
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quite as legally open but you can't get
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up here in a car just yet
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in fact we'll pass a couple places where
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people tried unsuccessfully it also is a
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little bit slippery four-foot footing
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and so I'm trying not to eat it like I
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did a couple years ago in Livingston
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hurt last year maybe
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when it was super cold and I stepped on
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somebody's got a lot of spruce up here a
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lot of Aspen that haven't started to bud
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yet so you can tell we're up much higher
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than in town where the trees are
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starting to come out the grass was
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growing even seeing some flowers and
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then we have a lot of willow down in
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here and these little creek bottoms this
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is a place where someone tried to come
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up and it looks from all this snow out
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to the side
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looks like they had to dig themselves
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out I've been there there are in this
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area all kinds of awesome creatures
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which hopefully we won't see including
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mountain lions which I have never seen
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one in the wild black bears and grizzly
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bears which are starting to come out and
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we would like to avoid those there are
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also deer which I saw a couple on the
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way up
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I saw squirrel which are actually
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surprisingly with all the trees and
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forests around here I don't see a lot of
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squirrels
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there are elk which I haven't seen for a
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while there are moose which we hope not
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to see because they're one of the more
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dangerous animals up here they are big
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massive animals and they of a tenancy
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that charge
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a lot of dark-eyed junco I've been seen
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this morning these are little birds
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about the size of a sparrow we've seen
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some black cap or no Mountain chickadee
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sorry beautiful spring day and up ahead
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we will have some pretty spectacular
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views back down to Paradise Valley and
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maybe even of the hog back that we hiked
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a couple days ago last week it's funny
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how slowly time is passing in these days
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things happen so quickly that seems like
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a month ago
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is just ambient nature sounds and scenes
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and then that's half of it and the other
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half is wildlife footage set to music
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relaxing music here's another spot
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someone pushed their luck which wasn't
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here yesterday when we walked we parked
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down below and walked up and this was
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certainly not here so this is fairly
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recent can say they slipped off almost
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to the side and had to cut a bunch of
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branches and stick some stuff to get
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some traction
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it's pretty slippery
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that is Paradise Valley down there and
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you probably can't make it out but one
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of the ridges on the other side of the
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valley is Hogback that we want when
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these uh there's a big aspen grove over
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here and in the summer and the fall it's
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absolutely gorgeous and has this really
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sweet smell to it
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moose and other animals love to forage
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in there in fact I saw some moose
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droppings earlier and I forgot to keep
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an eye out for them so I'm not exactly
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sure where they are but you know that's
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pretty exciting stuff
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I'm really envious of the people that
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have places down in here this little
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Valley so secluded quiet
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if you have any questions about this
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area or about Livingston or Paradise
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Valley please let me know in the
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comments below I'll do my best to answer
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him Warr about visiting Montana my wife
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is a travel writer and blogger and she
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knows pretty much everything you need to
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know traveling mill and in fact I think
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she had to go down to California for
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family reasons and I might send her a
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camera today so she can do some more
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City walks she picked up some slack for
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me when my knee was injured so maybe
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we'll get some variety here Yellowstone
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is currently closed the park and it's
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been interesting we've been talking
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about what that means for the animals
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that live there and now that they're not
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seeing the influx of people and traffic
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I've been reading a lot of articles
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online about other areas that have seen
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a lot of animals coming into places in
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their parks where they would not
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normally come into that's encouraging to
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see give them a little breather
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really cool value up in here the light
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on the hill is beautiful
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somebody's put a excuse me
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vertebral vertebral column here and
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forced her to sign it said Road easement
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through private land lease or please
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stay on road next half mile so we've
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been about a half mile so far I'll put a
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map or I'm sorry a link to a map below
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showing you at least where the location
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of the trailhead is you can follow the
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road if you'd like
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it's like somebody's dog found a big
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stick and left it here see some tooth
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marks on it a lot of people walk their
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dogs up this road
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a lot of great color in here with the
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greens and the whites and the Yellow Sun
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some dead trees in here with a lot of
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holes that are used by flickers and
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woodpeckers and even owls as little
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homes if you like owls this organization
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called explore org has teamed up with
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the owl Research Institute to have some
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nest cams webcams on a variety of owl
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nests I think they have great horned
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long eared and possibly another species
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that's up in your Charlotte Montana and
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the owl Research Institute is a really
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great organization minimal if any
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government funding all private and they
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do long-term field studies of owls
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cattle great here for those of you that
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aren't familiar with these they are
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places or structures that they've
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created that cows can't get across
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because their hubs won't stay on the
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bars but that you can drive across so
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you don't need to put a gate that has to
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be open and closed this is a wonderful
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view of the valley and out to Paradise
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Valley where the Yellowstone River is I
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think we're gonna end here excuse me
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