Bill Muhlenfeld is owner and publisher of Distinctly Montana magazine and other publications. He lives in Bozeman with his partner, Anthea, and always finds time to enjoy the great outdoors, when he is not writing about it.... 

The pic that accompanies this piece was taken today on Ted Turner's Flying D Ranch, just outside Bozeman.  Turner has done an incredible job increasing the "D's" bison herd from virtually "0" to over 5500 or so head today.  If you look closely you can just make out some of the hundreds of calves we saw today on our ride to the Lee Metcalf Wilderness.

Turner's ranch, with its adoption over the last couple of years by a wolfpack, now has every indigenous species originally found in Montana in the days of European discovery.

Thanks, Ted!