Flathead County Sheriff’s and Kalispell Police Reports
5:32 p.m. A canyon resident woke up to find two horses grazing in their backyard.
10:35 a.m. A man who stopped traffic in order to help move a turtle out of the roadway was told not to do that again.
11:24 a.m. Dogs with a history of killing pet rabbits were found sniffing around a neighboring hutch.
9:38 p.m. Two horses kept doing laps around someone’s yard.
9:39 p.m. The two horses continued to evade the crowd of people attempting to wrangle them.
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As wild bighorn sheep populations experience die-offs across the West due to respiratory disease, park scientists used a decade of GPS data to discern how Glacier’s sheep might communicate disease in the event of an outbreak
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