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The Department of the Interior sent out a press release detailing future management plans for the National Bison Range north of Missoula.

Grant funding provided by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation will improve 22,065 acres of wildlife habitat across 18 Montana counties including Missoula.

Recent studies on the number of mountain lions in the Bitterroot showed much higher numbers than state wildlife experts had expected. Those findings are part of the reason why Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is updating their mountain lion management plan.

The U.S Forest Service is working to update its grizzly bear management policy in the Helena, Kootenai, Lewis and Clark, and Lolo National Forests in an attempt to ensure grizzly bears are protected wherever they may travel in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (or NCDE).

More than 100 people spoke in a three-hour statewide video conference on Montana wildlife officials' plan to create a wolf management stamp.

Gov. Steve Bullock says a new state forestry management effort is more than about improving timber mills and forest health.

Wildlife officials monitoring gray wolf populations will be capturing the animals in parts of northwestern Wyoming.

The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation filed to intervene in a lawsuit by animal rights groups seeking to thwart the management of wolves in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness.

Anyone that lives in the western U.S. is likely living near land managed by the federal government. Many Western Montana counties, for example, have more than 50 percent of their land under federal control, a situation that poses problems for local use and tax revenue.