Outdoors
News from CSKT Natural Resources FLATHEAD LAKE — Up to $200,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded at the conclusion of the nine-week long 2021 Fall Mack Days Event. There are many ways to win during this fishing event on Flathead Lake, all it takes is one fish to qualify for lottery drawings that begin at $50 and go up to $2,000. Bonus dollars are paid when an angler reaches 11 lake trout entries, and increase as fish entries increase. Different prizes for Monday to Thursday and Friday to Sunday. Check out the different categories and ways to win at www.mackdays.com. To enter click on the events tab at the top of the page and select from the drop-down boxes on the entry...
News from Polson Ducks Unlimited POLSON — The Mission Valley (Polson) Ducks Unlimited Annual Banquet is planned for Saturday, Dec. 11. Fundraising banquets such as this help ensure that waterfowl will have places to nest, raise their young, and winter in each year. Your attendance at ...
News from Pheasants Forever – Mission Valley Chapter LAKE COUNTY — After giving it much thought and consideration, the Pheasants Forever Banquet planned for earlier this month, was cancelled. Increased COVID cases provided the most significant basis for the decision since much of current mem...
News from MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks HELENA — Montana’s young hunters will have the state’s waterfowl and pheasants pretty much to themselves Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 25-26. Licensed hunters ages 15 and under may hunt ducks, geese, coots, mergansers and ring-necked pheasants st...
News from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks HELENA — Watercraft inspectors at the Wibaux inspection station intercepted a motorboat entering Montana with mussels attached. The Wibaux inspection station, located on the Montana-North Dakota border on Interstate 94, has intercepted 12 of the ...
News from the Flathead Audubon Society JEWEL BASIN — Flathead Audubon is offering a field trip to view migrating raptors on Sunday, Sept. 19, from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. (approximately). Dan Casey will lead the trip to the Jewel Basin Hawk Watch site. The second half of September offers peak number...
News from the office of the Governor MONTANA — As of Tuesday, Aug. 31, at around 2 p.m., there were 18 large fire incidents in Montana. The state is in preparedness level 3. Since Jan. 1, there have been over 2,160 fire starts in Montana burning around 827,000 acres. Since the governor&rsquo...
From MSU News Service BOZEMAN – According to a new scientific report, the temperature has increased and snowfall has decreased in the Greater Yellowstone area since 1950 as a result of climate change, trends that are likely to continue through the rest of the century. “The Greater Yellows...
News from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks BIGFORK — Flathead Lake State Park, 8600 MT Highway 35, is holding a service day in remembrance of the lives lost during the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Wayfarers Unit in Bigfork will host this service day on Saturday, Sept. 11, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m....
News from CSKT FLATHEAD LAKE – Fall Mack Days on Flathead Lake will be held Thursday, Sept. 16 to Sunday, Nov. 14. The event is sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and is used as a management tool to reduce the numbers of non-native lake trout in Flathead Lake. ...
