Outdoors

News from MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks HELENA — If you ask Yvette Bonney to describe the grossest thing she’s seen during her job, she talks about the time she removed an abscessed lymph node from the neck of a mule deer, which Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks staff occasionally sees in deer.   “All this green stuff oozed out,” Bonney says.    She’ll also tell you about other times when she examined tick-infested heads, deer with injuries or heads that were no longer fresh but still sampleable.   The job of a wildlife technician who samples dead animals for chronic wasting disease (CWD) isn’t always a glamorous one. But Bon...

News from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks KALISPELL — Montana’s general hunting season is down to the final two weeks, and activity has picked up in northwest Montana. The general deer and elk hunting season concludes Dec 1, 2024. Hunters typically see increased chances of success w...

News from the National Park Service WEST GLACIER — Glacier National Park will once again implement a pilot vehicle reservation system in 2025, from June 13 to Sept. 28, 2025, for the west side of Going-to-the-Sun Road and the North Fork. Visitors can begin making advance reservations on Feb. 12, 2...

News from NRCS BOZEMAN — Last summer, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Montana went around the entire state to capture success stories between field office staff and landowners, producers, and partners. For two weeks, staff from the NRCS state office and a production crew went out ...

News from MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks KALISPELL — The general deer and elk hunting season is underway in Montana, and game check station results are outpacing last year for harvested deer across northwest Montana. More than 3,700 hunters have stopped at Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks&rsqu...

News from MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks  KALISPELL — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is increasing the availability of antlerless white-tailed deer hunting licenses in Hunting District 170 in the Flathead Valley following the detection of chronic wasting disease. FWP received approval f...

News from  MT FWP                               KALISPELL — The general deer and elk hunting season kicked off in Montana last weekend with overall better success than last year in the northwest corner of the state.Nea...

News from MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks HELENA – Hunters will again have the opportunity to thank landowners who allow hunting access on their land. The “Thank a Landowner” web portal is an easy way for hunters to pass on a note of thanks and a photo to landowners who have allowed them...

News from MT FWP GLASGOW — With the general deer and elk season coming up this weekend, a lot of folks will be hitting the field. Remember, it is up to the hunter to be familiar with the current year’s hunting regulations to be safe, ethical, and law-abiding. Below is one major regulation ch...

News from CSKT FLATHEAD LAKE — The 2024 Fall Mack Days Fishing Event on Flathead Lake will end Nov. 3 after nine weeks of lake trout fishing. Mack Days are a fish conservation tool used to decrease the non-native lake trout in Flathead Lake. The effort is sponsored by the Confederated Salish and K...