Hunting

Montana wildlife officials are warning hunters and others to watch out for grizzly bears along the Beartooth Front west of Red Lodge.

Last year, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks sold almost 68,000 Supertag hunting chances for the hunting season. Here’s what you can get – there are eight SuperTag licenses offered – for moose, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, elk, deer, antelope, mountain lion and bison...

Wolf season ended yesterday for Montana and along with the last day of hunting came the news that Montana failed to meet its wolf hunt quota.

Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks is trying to alert all hunters to some key changes in the 2012 preseason calendar. One of the biggest changes is that the deadline for residents and nonresidents to apply for deer and elk permits has been moved up to March 15. Drawings for those permits will now occur in mid-April instead of July.

Time is running out to voice your opinion on next year's hunting regulations. Although the regulations won't be finalized until February 16th, all public comments have to be submitted before 5 P.M.

The Colville Indian Tribes are worried that the state's proposed wolf management plan may hurt subsistence hunting by its members. The tribes told members of the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission on Thursday that a plan to restore at least five breeding pairs of wolves in Eastern Washington has the potential to reduce herds of elk, deer and moose on its reservation...

I spoke with Regional Information and Education Manager for Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Vivaca Crowser about the results from weekend number one of general rifle season. That interview is attached.

A state law enacted in 1991 sets aside the third week of September as Montana’s official week to celebrate the heritage of hunting big game animals. Secretary of the Western Montana Fish and Game Association, Gary Marbut says hunting is a way of life in Montana...

Hunting has always been considered good business in Montana. New data from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks shows that’s especially true along the Rocky Mountain Front. In fact, sportsmen hunting the "Front"  spent a little more during the middle of the recession – the industry brings in about 10-million a year...