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Fish Fanatic - Fly Fishing
Become fanatic about fish as you learn to identify fish of Montana, where to find each species, and the rules and regulations governing game fish in Montana.  Given water quality information predict what fish you will find in different waterways, what they would eat, and what they would use for shelter and spawning.  Explore the negative and positive benefits of native and non-native fish populations and come up with a management plan that you feel would most benefit both wildlife and human populations.

Shooting Sports
Hone your marksmanship skills or acquire new skills in target shooting with a rifle, shotgun or bow at the Palmer shooting range. Join hunter education and shooting sports instructors to learn about the equipment, safety issues, and ethics of use both for hunting and target shooting.   

Conservation Project
Join us to learn about and take part in a conservation project such as trail building, weed management, stream restoration and enhancement projects, trail maintenance and other conservation related activities to help maintain the ranch property, the overall health of the environment and sustain natural resources for future generations of people and wildlife who live on the land or come to enjoy it as a national treasure.

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Courses to be selected by crews based on interest and completed prior to going in the backcountry or done following backcountry experience.

Tracks, Scat and Sign
Wild animals are elusive and hard to observe in the wild, but you can discover their behavior from the signs they leave behind. Learn nature detective skills that will tell you which animals are living on the TRM ranch from these clues they leave behind.  We will walk through forests, along riparian corridors, and through wide open fields hunting for tracks, scat, signs of feeding, travel routes, and rub marks. You will learn not only print and scat identification but also about gait patterns, track averaging, estimating track age and speed of the animal, the animal’s food preferences, anatomy, their lifestyles and their role in the ecosystem.

Furbearers of the Rocky Mountain Front
Take a look at the furs and skulls of some of the furbearing animals that call the Rocky Mountain Front home. Learn how these animals live, what they eat, what special adaptations they have, and key identifying characteristics of each. Take a hike to discover first hand what the habitats of the TRM ranch provide these animals, the corridors they use, their roles in this ecosystem and how human lifestyles may affect their populations.