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Mountain Lion Spotted at Harpers Lake [AUDIO]

Peter Christian — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 19:25:20 +0000

Mountain lion hangs around campers at Harper's Lake.

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Wildlife for Kids Day This Saturday [AUDIO]

Peter Christian — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:43:30 +0000

Kids and Wildlife Day is this Saturday sponsored by Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks.

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Montana Commission Approves Wolf Trapping

Associated Press — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:08:40 +0000

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife commissioners have approved new wolf hunting rules that will allow trappers to each kill up to three of the predators.

The new rules approved Thursday more closely resemble Idaho's, following a season where hunters failed to reach the quota of 220 wolves

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Wolf Trapping Plan Generates Huge Public Response

Associated Press — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:00:50 +0000

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife officials say they have received a whopping 6,500 comments on their proposal for this year's wolf hunt.

Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron Aasheim says the number of comments far outnumbers the 1,500 received in 2011

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U.S. Geological Survey Snares Bear Hair to Study Idaho-Montana Grizzlies

Associated Press — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:31:41 +0000

BONNERS FERRY, Idaho (AP) — Scientists are hoping a mixture of fish guts and cow blood sprinkled liberally along the mountainous Idaho-Montana border will help them count grizzly bears.

It's an effort pushed by local government officials who suspect there may be more of these big predators in the region than their status as a threatened species may suggest

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See the World's Biggest Crocodile

Don Deane — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:53:07 +0000

A monster crocodile who goes by the name Lolong has just earned a Guinness World Record for being the largest saltwater croc held in captivity. We wonder if that makes his handlers, who must have the most dangerous job in the world, feel any better.

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Grizzly Bear Euthanized After Twice Killing Cattle

Associated Press — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:07:14 +0000

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — State wildlife officials have euthanized a young grizzly bear that killed cattle in the Red Lodge twice in the past year.

The 2½-year-old grizzly bear was captured Friday morning, a day after a dead calf was found near a county road northeast of Red Lodge

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Lonesome George, Last Surviving Galapagos Giant Tortoise, Dies

Don Deane — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:21:39 +0000

It’s a sad, sad day for animal lovers. Lonesome George, the longtime turtle mascot of the Galapagos Islands and the last of his kind, died on Sunday, officially making the Pinta Island giant tortoise extinct.

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Search on for Montana Grizzly That Killed 70 Sheep

Associated Press — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:12:23 +0000

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — State and federal wildlife officials in Montana say they're trying to locate a female grizzly bear responsible for killing 70 sheep at three ranches in the last two weeks.

Officials tell the Great Falls Tribune they hope to locate the grizzly using a transmitter attached to her 32-pound cub's ear

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Schweitzer Adviser New Deputy Director at FWP

Associated Press — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:45:52 +0000

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Gov. Brian Schweitzer's natural resource policy adviser has been named the new deputy director at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

Mike Volesky replaces former Butte legislator Art Noonan, who recently left for a job at Northwestern Energy

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Montana to decide trumpeter swan reintroduction

Associated Press — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:54:09 +0000

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife commissioners are being asked to approve a program to reintroduce trumpeter swans to the Madison River Valley.

Wildlife officials plan to release five 70-day-old swans this summer in the restored O'Dell Creek headwaters south of Ennis

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Wyoming Governor Asks Feds to Delist Grizzlies

Associated Press — Wed, 30 May 2012 12:33:24 +0000

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead is calling on the federal government to end federal protections for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone area.

Mead wrote to U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last week saying that the gravity of the bear situation around the nation's oldest national park cannot be overemphasized

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Senators Want Animal Disease Off Security List

Associated Press — Wed, 30 May 2012 12:31:34 +0000

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Senators Jon Tester and Max Baucus are asking federal health officials to lift security restrictions on the bacteria that causes a disease found in wildlife in and around Yellowstone National Park

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Montana Residents Injured When Car Hits Moose

Associated Press — Tue, 29 May 2012 12:16:08 +0000

COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho State Police says five Great Falls, Mont., residents were injured when the car they were in struck a moose on Interstate 90 in northern Idaho.

The ISP says 14-year-old Ryan Comesatnight of Great Falls was westbound shortly after 9 p

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Trumpeter Swans Released in Blackfoot River Valley

Associated Press — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:30:14 +0000

OVANDO, Mont. (AP) — Five yearling swans were released into a wetland near Ovando in an ongoing effort to reintroduce the birds to the Blackfoot River Valley of western Montana.

And the process is starting to pay off

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Young Grizzly Bear Captured Near Ferndale

Associated Press — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:51:55 +0000

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — State wildlife officials say a young grizzly bear caught grazing on lawns in a residential area near Ferndale has been released on the west side of Hungry Horse Reservoir.

Fish, Wildlife and Parks grizzly bear management specialist Tim Manley says the 2½-year-old bear was caught on Tuesday and released the same day

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Wildlife Group Sues for Bat-Disease Documents

Associated Press — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:37:12 +0000

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A wildlife advocacy group is suing the U.S. Forest Service for the release of documents that discuss the agency's plans to keep a disease that has already killed millions of bats in the U

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State Appeals Court Blocks on Bison Transfers

Associated Press — Wed, 16 May 2012 10:13:18 +0000

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Montana will appeal a district court ruling that blocks further transfers of bison out of Yellowstone National Park.

About 60 park bison were moved to the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in March over the objections of some ranchers and eastern Montana officials

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Judge Blocks Helicopter Hazing of Wild Bison

Associated Press — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:31:10 +0000

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked Montana officials from using a helicopter to drive bison back into Yellowstone National Park.

U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell's temporary restraining order Monday follows arguments by wildlife advocates that federal and state officials had not properly studied how the use of helicopters affects grizzly bears

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FWP Commission Gives Initial OK to Wolf-Hunt Plan

Associated Press — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:43:31 +0000

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks commissioners have given their initial approval to the 2012 wolf-hunt proposal that would allow trapping and eliminate quotas.

After a nearly four-hour hearing Thursday in which more than 60 people spoke, the commissioners voted to put the proposal out to public comment until June 25

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