Montana Outdoors:Fin, Fur, and Feather

• Great Falls

  Great Falls taxidermist reflects on craft

  

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  Posted 4:08 PM 4/29/2013 by Simone DeAlba (simone@krtv.com)

  Hunting is a deeply ingrained part of the Montana culture; taxidermist Mark Smart noted, "People here in Montana, they like the outdoors and hunting is part of the outdoors, harvesting the animal."

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• Montana News

  Hardin family fined for poaching

  Posted 4:03 PM 4/5/2013 by MTN News - Billings

  Four members of a Hardin family have been ordered to pay more than $22,000 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to 18 charges of illegally killing wildlife in two Montana counties and one charge of illegal outfitting.

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• Central Montana

  Deer poached near Grass Range

  

  Posted 6:51 PM 4/4/2013 by KRTV

  State game wardens are looking for information regarding the poaching of seven mule deer does northwest of Grass Range in central Montana.

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• 2013 MT Legislature

  Bill would allow MT ranchers to kill wolves without a license

  Posted 8:25 AM 3/27/2013 by Evan Weborg (Helena)

  Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks reports that there are more than 600 wolves roaming Montana, and a bill before the Legislature would allow land owners to take wolves off their private property without a license in some cases.

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• Montana News

  2 deer poached near Great Falls

  Posted 3:41 PM 3/19/2013 by MT FWP

  State game wardens are looking for information regarding the poaching of two white-tailed deer just south of the Great Falls city limits.

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• Crime & Courts

  3 men fined, lose privileges afer illegally shooting into elk herd

  Posted 11:57 PM 3/14/2013 by MTN News - Bozeman

  Three Butte area men have pleaded guilty to hunting violations after they reportedly shot into a herd of elk on private property.

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• MT Hunting & Fishing

  Mountain lion harvested in Crazy Mountains migrated from South Dakota

  Posted 9:38 PM 3/11/2013 by MT FWP

  An adult female mountain lion harvested in February at the north end of central Montana's Crazy Mountains apparently traveled there from South Dakota, where it was fitted with a radio collar last summer.

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• MT Hunting & Fishing

  225 wolves taken during Montana hunting season

  

  Posted 2:09 PM 3/4/2013 by Dennis Bragg (Missoula)

  State wildlife managers say the combination of hunting and trapping is giving Montana biologists a big boost in managing the state's wolf population, with 225 wolves killed during the 2012-2013 season.

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• MT Hunting & Fishing

  Annual fundraiser banquet will help give teens a chance to hunt

  

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  Posted 7:13 PM 2/24/2013 by Tara Grimes (tara@krtv.com)

  Members of the Christian Sportsmen's Fellowship Big Sky Chapter are preparing for their annual Sportsman's Banquet Monday night.

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• 2013 MT Legislature

  Governor Bullock signs wolf management bill

  

  Posted 11:40 AM 2/13/2013 by Marnee Banks (Helena)

  Governor Steve Bullock (D) signed House Bill 73 Wednesday morning alongside the sponsors, MT State Representatives Kelly Flynn (R-Townsend) and Ted Washburn (R- Bozeman).

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