Climate entity
Every one of those 2 sits in a single category, extreme-weather. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is most often covered alongside Colorado Parks and Wildlife, which appears in 2 of these 2 stories. Across a 9-day span, the pace is roughly 1.6 stories per week.
Last mentioned: Aug 11, 2026
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Coverage balance Negative coverage leads. Negative coverage exceeds positive coverage by 50 percentage points.
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Every one of those 2 sits in a single category, extreme-weather. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is most often covered alongside Colorado Parks and Wildlife, which appears in 2 of these 2 stories. Across a 9-day span, the pace is roughly 1.6 stories per week. The 5.5 average consequence score is below the beat benchmark of 5.7 in the same window. Source depth averages 2.5 original sources per story, versus 2.4 across the same-window beat baseline. This profile follows 2 Climate stories mentioning Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks across the period from August 3, 2026 to August 11, 2026.
Computed from the 2 stories linked to this entity, with beat comparisons drawn from all 115 Climate stories published in the same date window. Shares are omitted below five stories and comparisons below a twenty-story baseline.
Coverage cohort
Other entities that clear the same relevance threshold in stories also covering Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. Shared-story counts are live from our verified record — not editorial picks.
Heat wave expansion
Forecast indicates record heat expanding from the Southwest into the Rocky Mountains and High Plains, threatening to intensify river warming.
Angler interview
California angler Mike Wever wades the Yellowstone River without waders and voices support for the closures.
Montana expands closures
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks broadens afternoon fishing restrictions to cover 1,200 miles of rivers, following record heat and drought.
Yellowstone park-wide closure
Yellowstone National Park extends afternoon fishing restrictions to the entire park.
Unprecedented afternoon fishing closures across the U.S. West highlight the escalating ecological toll of climate change. Montana alone has restricted 1,200 river miles, while Colorado imposed its largest-ever curtailments on nearly 636 miles of streams. These measures, once rare, are now a seasonal norm as drought and record temperatures push water to lethal levels for trout.
Source: nbcchicago.com · nbcnewyork.com
Record-breaking temperatures and drought are forcing widespread fishing bans across the U.S. West to protect cold-water fish. Colorado alone has closed 635.5 miles of rivers—an all-time high—while Yellowstone and Montana expand their restrictions. The trend signals a new normal for freshwater ecosystems under climate change.
Source: denverpost.com · dailygazette.com
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is linked from 2 stories on this site, each scored at or above our 35% relevance threshold — see how these pages are built.
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