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  • Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission wants comment on ...
  • They are fishing ... into a feeder fish to support all of our aquatic friends in Canyon Ferry. I personally would like to see the limits on the Walleye dropped to a reasonable and senceable limit as are most limits on Walleye in Montana.
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  • 3/11/2010 8:00:41 AM
  • Commissioners OK purchase of new state park
  • A new, 6,200-acre state park planned for Alberton near Missoula cleared another hurdle Wednesday when Montana’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks commissioners unanimously approved its purchase. The commission voted 4-0 to buy the park. A fifth member ...
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  • 3/10/2010 10:56:39 PM
  • The dividing line
  • In Montana, it crosses Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshall Wilderness and the Bitterroot Mountains before bridging Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico on its ... It’s checkered by the cross-country ski trails that skirt the ridge to the ...
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  • 3/10/2010 10:56:39 PM
  • Rehberg staffer mixed up in poaching charge
  • Madison County Attorney Chris Christensen and Sam Shepperd, the Fish, Wildlife and Parks warden captain ... poaching an elk and when he knew it,” said David Benson, executive director of the Montana Democratic Party. “Either he knowingly hired a ...
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  • 3/10/2010 10:56:39 PM
  • Status quo for shed-antler season on WMAs
  • When the Sun River Wildlife Management Area opens to the horn-hunting public on May 15, people will be able to run, bike, drive or ride horses in search of antlers shed by elk. Montana’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission had considered limiting ...
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  • 3/10/2010 10:56:39 PM
  • Canyon Ferry walleye plan draws fire
  • Walleye in Canyon Ferry Reservoir once again prompted rigorous discussion Wednesday as the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission considered tentative approval to a new Upper Missouri River Management Plan. While the initial plan put before the ...
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  • 3/10/2010 10:56:39 PM
  • Helena needs to step up for HS
  • ... legislator’s letter to the governor advocating the relocation of the Montana ... improve: water, fish and wildlife resources; public drinking water supplies; natural resource-based recreational opportunities such as hunting, fishing, hiking ...
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  • 3/9/2010 11:12:09 PM
  • Pack of wolves spotted near Butte
  • BUTTE — The people watched the wolves and the wolves eyed the elk. It went on this way for hours. Retirees Bill Garlish and Pat Pennell of Butte arrived Tuesday morning with spotting scopes, a thermos of coffee and warm clothes at the northbound ...
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  • 3/9/2010 11:12:09 PM
  • Students pursuing natural science degrees get grants
  • The endowment mission statement reflects Tawney’s passion and commitment to protecting Montana’s fish and wildlife, vulnerable habitat, and the future of hunting. Smith said he was “honored, humbled and inspired to have received the scholarship ...
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  • 3/6/2010 10:47:05 PM
  • Sage grouse won’t make endangered species list
  • But the bird populations have been relatively stable over the last decade thanks to efforts by states such as Wyoming, Idaho and Montana to protect the ... energy resources, said Assistant Interior Secretary for Fish, Wildlife and Parks Tom ...
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  • 3/5/2010 10:33:57 PM
  • FWP eases wolf-killing regulations
  • In a hearing before the Environmental Quality Council, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Director Joe Maurier said federal Wildlife Services agents no longer need FWP authorization to kill wolves at or near confirmed livestock depredation sites.
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  • 3/5/2010 3:53:05 PM
  • Fish, Wildlife and Parks director issues new rules for killing wolves
  • Montana's top wildlife official acknowledged Friday that the state has too many wolves on the landscape, so he's implementing a new strategy that will allow problem wolves to be killed more quickly by federal agents. In a hearing before the ...
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  • 3/5/2010 1:51:24 PM
  • Fish, Wildlife and Parks director issues new rules for ...
  • Montana's top wildlife official acknowledged Friday that the state has too many wolves on the landscape, so he's implementing a new strategy that will allow problem wolves to be killed more quickly by federal agents. In a hearing before the ...
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  • 3/5/2010 1:51:24 PM
  • Grouse won't be listed as endangered or threatened
  • The bird inhabits large portions of Wyoming, Nevada, Montana, Oregon and Idaho, and smaller areas of Colorado, Utah, California, Washington, South Dakota, North Dakota and western Canada. (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Gary Kramer, File ...
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  • 3/5/2010 12:39:49 PM
  • Help Search and Rescue help others
  • The Lewis and Clark Search and Rescue 50th anniversary dinner is Saturday, Feb. 6, at the Best Western Great Northern Hotel in Helena. Tickets for the event, which will feature live music and auctions, are available for $35 at all Valley Bank ...
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  • 3/3/2010 10:57:48 PM
  • Wounded Warriors find relief on Big Mountain
  • Recently, these soldiers emerged into the clean, crisp whiteness of a Montana winter, brought to Whitefish Mountain Resort by ... They took him to a Mets game, and they took him fishing, and organized a bicycle tour with other vets straight through ...
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  • 3/3/2010 10:50:38 PM
  • MWF seeking award nominees
  • The Montana Wildlife Federation is looking for candidates for its 2010 awards that honor conservationists, sportsmen (and women), outfitters and landowners. This is the 75th anniversary of the federation, which plans to celebrate protecting and ...
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  • 3/3/2010 9:10:25 PM
  • US troops killed in Afghanistan and Africa
  • Friends recalled how he loved attending rock concerts or going fishing and how he overcame a fear of ... accomplished nothing," Uzenski's father, William, said at his son's funeral in Bozeman, Montana, where some of his family lives. The military ...
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  • 2/8/2010 8:44:36 AM
  • Wolves decimating wild herds
  • The statements attributed to the members of the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks commission as regards the decline our state’s mule deer population in recent years are false, period! I have no knowledge of any of the sitting commission ever being ...
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  • 2/7/2010 10:50:28 PM
  • Thanks for ski-trail grooming
  • The MacDonald Pass trail system is a great outdoor asset, right in Helena’s backyard. The Last Chance Nordic Ski Club is a great organization whose members work with the U.S. Forest Service, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks and ...
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  • 2/7/2010 10:50:28 PM
  • Wolf proposed as ‘ranger’
  • Fish and Wildlife Service A 130-pound gray wolf watches biologists in Yellowstone ... They multiplied exponentially, and now number an estimated 1,650 animals in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. In Yellowstone, scientists have tracked an ecosystem rebound ...
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  • 2/7/2010 10:43:19 PM
  • Obama ups cash for land, water fund
  • The LWCF program was initiated in 1965, using proceeds from offshore gas and oil development to acquire land ... ensure public access to hunting and fishing areas, which is why he’s sponsored a bill that would permanently provide $900 million ...
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  • 2/6/2010 10:44:30 PM
  • Montana outfitters wary of I-161
  • OVANDO – Looking out the window at their favorite hunting grounds, outfitters at a table see something that scares them worse than wolves. It’s a piece of paper bearing the text of Initiative 161. For folks like Jack Rich, Greg Gilchrist and Jack ...
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  • 2/6/2010 10:37:20 PM
  • New advisory council created for wildlife and hunting
  • Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer joined Secretary of the Interior ... influential conservationists, and through their license and equipment purchases, they are foremost funders of state fish and wildlife agencies’ programs to restore and safeguard ...
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  • 2/4/2010 10:32:33 PM
  • Federal agency denies protections for tiny pika
  • Fish and Wildlife Service is expected to announce Friday Feb. 5, 2010 whether the American ... The pika lives in parts of California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
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  • 2/4/2010 3:37:22 PM
  • Helicopter helps transport bighorns to Wyoming
  • RUFFIN PREVOST/Billings Gazette - A pair of captured bighorn sheep are blindfolded and hobbled while being transported by sling beneath a helicopter. LOVELL, Wyo. — A helicopter skimming above rocky outcroppings in the Bighorn Mountains is an ...
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  • 2/3/2010 10:55:13 PM
  • Yellowstone bison going to Turner’s ranch
  • BILLINGS - Billionaire Ted Turner is getting 88 bison from Yellowstone National Park from a faltering Montana program that was supposed to put the disease-free animals on public or tribal lands. Fish, Wildlife and Parks Director Joe Maurier announced ...
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  • 2/2/2010 1:52:22 PM
  • Help keep Montana beautiful
  • I first learned how to fly-fish on the Gallatin River in the late ’50s and still today, 50 years later, Montana remains a fisherman’s paradise. I’m writing because I want it to stay that way. After attending two “town hall” meetings hosted ...
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  • 2/1/2010 10:36:07 PM
  • FWP seeking comment on Livingston bridge replacement
  • BOZEMAN (AP) — The state Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks is seeking public comment on a plan to replace the Ninth Street Island Bridge, which crosses the Yellowstone River at Livingston. The original bridge was damaged by flooding in 2008 ...
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  • 1/30/2010 10:52:48 PM
  • Forest bill will save jobs, forests
  • And it safeguards for our kids and grandkids some of Montana’s best places to hunt, fish and camp. Without this bill, Montana will lose the loggers, the millers, the truckers and the infrastructure needed to keep our timber industry a strong part ...
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  • 1/30/2010 10:52:48 PM
  • Doherty named adviser to Salazar
  • From 2005 to 2009 he served as chairman of the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission, which oversees the regulation and management of lands valued by hunters, anglers, outdoor enthusiasts and other recreationists from Montana and throughout the ...
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  • 1/29/2010 10:46:50 PM
  • Wyoming wants control of its wolves
  • The state is challenging the agency’s decision last year to remove wolves in Idaho and Montana from the endangered species list while leaving them protected in Wyoming. Jay Jerde, deputy Wyoming attorney general, told Johnson that the Fish and ...
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  • 1/29/2010 10:46:50 PM
  • Democrats will compete for northern Montana PSC district
  • Burning coal releases additional poisons, like mercury and sulfur dioxide, which made fish unconsumable (see the MT DEQ website for guidelines for fish consumption) and causes acid rain. And perhaps the greatest impact of burning coal is global ...
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  • 1/29/2010 8:56:28 AM
  • State briefs
  • GREAT FALLS (AP) — Officials with the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department say mule deer numbers are on the decline. Biologists say a decade or more of drought and winter-like storms that occurred last spring took a toll on mule deer fawns ...
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  • 1/28/2010 10:33:42 PM
  • FWP seeks comment on peregrine falcon, shed-antler hunting proposals
  • Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is seeking public comment on proposals for the 2010 peregrine falcon take and on shed-antler hunting on wildlife management areas. The 2010 proposal on peregrine falcon would authorize five nestlings or fledged ...
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  • 1/27/2010 11:03:31 PM
  • PERCHed for glory
  • Due to the lake's size and limited access ramps, most anglers use ATVs and pickup trucks to travel between the docks and their fishing spots. January ... to register for the Broadwater County Lions Club-sponsored Perch Derby. That’s down slightly ...
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  • 1/27/2010 10:42:02 PM
  • 133 acres added to city open space
  • Commissioners accepted a grant from the Montana Fish and Wildlife Conservation Trust for $75,000 to purchase a parcel along the north face of Mount Ascension from the Prickly Pear Land Trust. The land trust purchased the 21-acre parcel from Grant ...
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  • 1/26/2010 10:57:33 PM
  • Rehberg opposes Tester bill
  • Thus, more harm: fewer glaciers (meaning less late summer stream flow for fish and irrigation) and more beetle ... commend congressman rehberg for taking the time to hear directly from the people of montana about their concerns and ideas.
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  • 1/26/2010 8:41:32 PM
  • FWP eyes new antler-hunting rules
  • People no longer will be able to ride horses or motorized vehicles into Montana’s Wildlife Management Areas to look for shed antlers for the first three days the areas are open to the public, under a proposal given tentative approval by the Fish ...
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  • 1/18/2010 10:59:52 PM
  • Mont. gets first statewide bighorn sheep plan
  • BOZEMAN (AP) — The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission has approved the state’s first-ever statewide plan for managing bighorn sheep. Officials say they hope the conservation plan will allow them to keep better tabs on bighorns and find ...
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  • 1/18/2010 10:45:33 PM
  • Underage party busted; 6 arrested
  • I agree with letstalk. What's changed in 30 years? Anyone in the over 40 crowd remember "Fun City", dancing/billiards and video games almost out of town on the highway heading to Missoula for the young crowd? That was shut down in short order back in ...
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  • 1/18/2010 1:12:54 PM
  • Montana gets first statewide bighorn sheep plan
  • BOZEMAN - The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission has approved the state's first-ever statewide plan for managing bighorn sheep. Officials hope the conservation plan will allow them to keep better tabs on bighorns and find new habitat for the ...
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  • 1/18/2010 7:36:27 AM
  • Turner’s bison offer touches nerve
  • BILLINGS — With 88 bison from Yellowstone National Park facing possible slaughter, billionaire Ted Turner has swept in and offered to hold the animals for five years on his sprawling Montana ranch while a new home for them is found. But Turner ...
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  • 1/17/2010 10:53:54 PM
  • Turner's bid for park bison stokes wildlife debate
  • Turner's plan is expected to be acted on by the end of the month by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Guernsey State Park in Wyoming has also put in a proposal to the agency for 14 bison. Montana officials were largely caught off ...
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  • 1/17/2010 9:46:29 AM
  • Bill would boost conservation efforts
  • ... are waiting in the wings in Montana. And the tools to implement them — successful models, private funding matches and available land — side in Montana’s favor, says Art Noonan, the second in command at the state Fish ... of fishing a blue ...
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  • 1/16/2010 10:55:05 PM
  • What I’ve heard on the wilderness bill trail
  • In early January, I held 21 public listening sessions and meetings to hear what Montanans had to say about Sen. Tester’s bill to designate more than 600,000 acres of new wilderness. Hundreds of Montanans attended, each with the opportunity to stand ...
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  • 1/16/2010 10:55:05 PM
  • Eagles gather on Missouri River
  • GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) - The deep cold brings them together and chinook winds and warming trends allow them to disperse. We are talking bald eagles here. In northcentral Montana we are at the peak of eagle watching. Especially along the Missouri ...
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  • 1/15/2010 12:54:59 PM
  • FWP keeps Mitchell Slough open to duck hunting
  • The state Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission decided Thursday to keep the area open for hunting, but to work with landowners and sportsmen to develop and access plan to the waterway. In 2008, the Montana Supreme Court ruled that Mitchell Slough was ...
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  • 1/15/2010 10:38:58 AM
  • Outdoors Calendar
  • On Jan. 16 and 17, the annual Pike on Ice Fishing Tournament ... provide the results of FWP fish-shocking survey in the Missouri River below Holter Dam and Cascade. Call 459-3750. Hike Alice Creek On Jan. 30, at 10 p.m., the Montana Wilderness ...
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  • 1/13/2010 10:30:01 PM
  • Trapped on public lands
  • Voters will decide on Initiative 160 this November, which, if passed, would ban trapping on public lands. According to Trapping Today, the ballot will read: “I-160 prohibits trapping of all wild mammals and birds by any means on public lands in ...
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  • 1/13/2010 10:30:01 PM
  • FWP Commission to meet today
  • Montana’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission will meet today at the FWP Helena Headquarters in Helena at 1 p.m. The FWP Commission will make final decisions on a variety of issues, including acquiring bighorn sheep habitat near Anaconda and a ...
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  • 1/13/2010 10:30:01 PM
  • New plan drafted for bears in Rockies, Cascades
  • Wildlife officials from the United States and Canada plan to encourage conservation groups to buy key parcels of grizzly bear habitat in order to gauge how climate change is affecting them. The change is among those proposed on Tuesday for future ...
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  • 1/12/2010 3:43:11 PM
  • Sheep kill may prompt action by officials
  • Shown are three bighorn sheep killed by a vehicle west of Anaconda late Monday morning. Eight sheep — including two trophy rams — died after being hit by a driver who claimed the sun was in his eyes. The sheep were on the roadway licking salt ...
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  • 1/11/2010 10:39:33 PM
  • Officials discuss smoking restrictions on gov’t campuses
  • Are YOU kidding me? Which building exactly do you go through this cloud of smoke? A bar perhaps, but other public places? I go to many government buildings at various times of the day, I see maybe one or two at best and marking off the distance....at ...
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  • 1/10/2010 7:41:46 PM

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