Montana Outdoors:Fin, Fur, and Feather

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  Montana FWP looking at other ways to manage wolves

  

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  Posted 5:32 PM 2/16/2012 by Marnee Banks (Helena)

  On Thursday, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commissioners voted unanimously to stop the wolf hunt in the Bitterroot despite low harvest numbers.

  The Commission hoped hunters would harvest 18 wolves in the Bitterroot but only were 6 killed.

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  Montana FWP approves bison hunt

  

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  Posted 3:57 PM 2/16/2012 by Marnee Banks (Helena)

  The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission is giving people another chance to hunt bison.

  On Thursday, by a 4 to 1 vote, the commission decided to allow hunters the opportunity to shoot a bison outside defined tolerance areas and outside the hunting normal season.

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  Season ends with 166 wolves harvested in Montana

  Posted 6:29 PM 2/15/2012 by Marnee Banks (marnee@kxlh.com)

  The 2011-2012 wolf hunting season in Montana fell short of achieving the quota of 220 wolves.

  Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks reports that a total 166 wolves were harvested during the season in 14 separate wolf hunting units across the state.

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  Bull elk poached, beheaded near Helena

  

  Posted 3:21 PM 2/6/2012 by Melissa Anderson (Helena)

  Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks officials are looking for suspects who poached a large bull elk late Sunday afternoon and took only its head.

  The poaching incident occurred sometime around the third quarter of the Super Bowl.

  According to reports, the crime was committed on a (More)

  
  

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  Jefferson County considers bounty for wolves, mountain lions

  

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  Posted 8:34 AM 2/1/2012 by Christina Lysacek

  BOULDER- Jefferson County is considering rewarding hunters for killing wolves and mountain lions.

  The MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission was asked to consider a bounty by a group of livestock producers who say they are losing money because of the damage these animals are doing to (More) • Video (1)

  
  

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  FWP approves commercial fishing permit on Canyon Ferry

  Posted 5:01 PM 1/20/2012 by Marnee Banks (Helena)

  The Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks (FWP) Commission voted to approve a commercial fishing operation on two lakes near Helena.

  The permit would allow Tracy Fortner of Townsend to commercially harvest carp. If it gets final approval, Fortner would be able to net carp on Canyon Ferry and (More)

  
  

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  Montana wolf hunt quota 60% filled

  Posted 5:09 PM 1/13/2012 by Marnee Banks (Helena)

  Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) reports that the statewide quota for wolf hunting season is now 60% filled.

  In total, 135 wolves have been killed since the backcountry archery season opened on September 3, 2011. 

  The FWP Commission set the quota at 220 wolves (More)

  
  

• Great Falls

  Great Falls man arrested on poaching charges

  Posted 4:48 PM 1/12/2012 by MT FWP

  Russell Ross Rennick of Great Falls was arrested on Thursday morning on five misdemeanor counts of poaching.

  Rennick, 52, was arrested by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks game wardens after a two-month investigation.

  Rennick was charged with hunting big game without (More)

  
  

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  Ice fishing underway at Canyon Ferry Lake

  

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  Posted 6:18 PM 12/30/2011 by Marnee Banks (Helena)

  Many have been saying warmer temperatures have dampened ice fishing season in Montana, but Sharon Walker, who runs the Silos RV Park and Store just a few hundred yards from the loading docks at Canyon Ferry Lake, says that's not the case. 

  "Actually ice fishing is awesome. Contrary to (More) • Video (1) • Photos (2)

  
  

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  Wolf hunting quota filled in NW Montana

  Posted 4:33 PM 12/28/2011 by Marnee Banks

  Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) is closing a wolf hunting region in northern Montana.

  Management area 101 is located in the northwestern part of the state near Flathead Lake.

  The FWP Commission set the quota in the area at 19 and according to the FWP website, hunters have (More)

  
  

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