National Bison Range Wildlife Refuge - near Missoula, Montana, MT
Join us on a leisurely drive through the National Bison Range Wildlife Refuge, 46 miles from Missoula, Montana. We saw bear, Big Horn Sheep and American Bison in their natural setting in beautiful western Montana, the Big Sky State.
The refuge is almost 30 square miles (18,800 acres) and has a bison population between 350 and 500 animals. It is one of the oldest National Wildlife Refuges in the United States. The Red Sleep road took us to an elevation of almost 5,000 feet affording us spectacular views of the valleys below.
I initially shot these scenes for my personal collection, but the scenery was so beautiful I just had to share. All scenes were captured with my camcorder hand-held from inside the vehicle without the aid of a tripod or window mount. Also, I could not edit out the heat waves from the telephoto scenes of the bear. Sorry.
This sequence was shot on May 21, 2015 with a Canon Vixia HFS-100 and edited in Adobe Premier CS6.
The music is Infados Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
Administered by the Dept of the Interior --- we drove through and viewed the animals; fee of five dollars. Some trails available, but we stayed on the main road. Takes about 2 hours to drive 10 miles.
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