Entries Tagged Montana

Can boots-on-the-ground hunting help eliminate and restore the wild sheep roaming Montana’s Tendoy Mountains?

Montana wildlife regulators rejected a proposal to double the allowance of wolves that can be hunted or trapped near Yellowstone.

Authorities are looking for a grizzly in Montana's Flathead National Forest after it killed a mountain biker earlier this week.

Complaints by outfitters and hunters over predators impact on elk have prompted Montana officials to triple gray wolf harvest.

Animal right group WildEarth Guardians said they will seek a court order halting a United States government program that allows tens of thousands of pelts from bobcats and a small number of gray wolves to be exported annually for sale on the international fur market.

Yellowstone National Park proposes to kill roughly 1,000 wild bison this winter, mostly calves and females, as officials seek to reduce the animals' annual migration into Montana.

At the end of September, Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks had issued 1,747 roadkill salvage permits over the last two years to people all over the state who found an edible deer, moose, elk or antelope.

Four years after the brutal winter that caused an antelope die-off on a scale that hadn't been seen in decades in Montana, prairie pronghorn are rebounding, according to state Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

Brucellosis can cause young pregnant cattle, as well as elk, to abort. It's believed the most infectious materials come from birthing fluids and tissue. So keeping cattle and elk separated at the time the elk calve is thought to be key to controlling the spread of the disease.

Students got a first-hand lesson in wildlife biology at a Bozeman, Montana, high school when a black bear wandered through the hallway before the start of classes.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Park said in a news release that the woman was likely bit in the head during the attack, but that none of her injuries were life-threatening.

There has been a surge of bear deaths along Montana highways as more bears have been making their way down to river valleys in search of food ahead of their winter hibernation.

The Fish and Wildlife Commission approved the so-called “shoulder season'' guidelines Thursday that would allow hunting to start as early as August in approved areas, with a late season extending until February.