General hunting season enters second week
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A hunter at the Thompson Falls game check station displays the bull elk he harvested last weekend.
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KALISPELL — Montana’s general hunting season is in full swing, and hunters are experiencing the arrival of winter weather in northwest Montana.
Snowfall began last week across most of the region and the National Weather Service is advising recreationists to be prepared for rainfall in the valleys and snowfall in the mountains this week.
More than 3,100 hunters have appeared at regional game check stations over the last two weekends. Check stations are open on weekends during general deer and elk hunting season from 10 a.m. to approximately 1.5 hours past sunset. The regional stations are located at U.S. Highway 2 West of Kalispell, Montana Highway 83 north of Swan Lake, Highway 200 west of Thompson Falls, and Highway 93 near Olney.
Hunters must stop at any check station they encounter whether they harvested an animal or not. The counts at the stations represent a sampling of the harvest and do not represent the complete number of animals taken.
For an estimate of big game harvests from years’ past, visit: https://myfwp.mt.gov/fwpPub/harvestReports.
Montana’s general deer and elk hunting season runs from Oct. 21-Nov. 26, 2023. Other general hunting seasons underway include black bear (Sept. 15-Nov. 26), bighorn sheep (Sept. 15-Nov. 26), moose (Sept. 15-Nov. 26), mountain lion (fall season without dogs, Oct. 22-Nov. 27), mountain goat (Sept. 15-Nov. 26), turkey (Sept. 1-Jan. 1), and wolf (Sept. 15-March 15, 2024).
