Montana
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Game managers may make changes in hunting season for next year- Wow! The stories about the shooting of the Park wolves who happened to be just north of the Park keep coming. This is another one. This one today is by Brett French in the Billings Gazette. Actually we don’t know that this hasn’t happened…
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I see it as a way for our western “royalty” to try to coerce Montana FWP into supporting wildife and fish-harmful plans- The land barons are trying to use hunters to pressure FWP into policies that are harmful to wildlife, but friendly to their private interests. The article says that for access, lots of these…
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Is one state doing a better job than the other on the hunt? I think it’s still too soon to say, and too soon on the quotas too. Wolves killed picked up quickly in Idaho as more elk and deer hunts opened. Now the number killed is slowing down, but wait until there is more…
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Montana powerline down, had lethal juice in it for several months- A snag fell across the line, bringing it the ground. Downed power line near Eureka electrocutes more than a dozen animals. AP in the Missoulian
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Poached bear found on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation of the Rocky Mountain Front- Another grizzly found clawless. By Karl Puckett. Great Falls Tribune Staff Writer Just for reference. This bear was part of the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem grizzly bear population, the largest grizzly population in the lower 48 states (more bears than greater Yellowstone).
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This one may not have serious injury to the hunter- I want to note that JerryB posted a version this story as a comment earlier, but it isn’t good to post an entire story because they are copyrighted. Paradise Valley hunter mauled by grizzly bear. By Ben Pierce. Bozeman Chronicle Staff Writer. One hunter seems…
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Columbia Falls man cited for poaching two wolves- Although it is wolf hunting season in Montana, one NW Montanan couldn’t wait. He shot two wolves along Whale Creek Road in the North Fork Flathead drainage on Oct. 9. He plead guilty and paid a large fine for a wolf violation, a $1,135 fine. A third…
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Montana’s wolf hunt did not have a slow start like Idaho’s- Out of the quota of 75, already 23 wolves have been killed. In total eleven wolves were shot over the weekend. The entire state was open to hunting for just 3 days. Southern Montana’s quota was filled on Sunday with the hunt ending at…