Wildlife

If you are looking for that once-in-a-lifetime hunt in Montana, you better hurry!

Coming soon to a multiplex or streaming service near you.

Changes to Missoula County's solid waste regulations will widen the bear buffer zone around the city limits and phase in the requirement of bear-resistant trash bins over the next three years.

Dave Stalling writes, "Delisting should be based on science, not on politics driven by a disdain for predators."

The act would add about 78,000 acres of wilderness to the Bob Marshall, Scapegoat and Mission Mountains wilderness areas and create two recreation management areas for snowmobiling and mountain biking.

Richard Manning writes, "At the very least, the lands’ management needs to be forcibly amputated from the parks department and entrusted to a separate, stand-alone entity run by restoration ecologists."

Two environmental groups are suing the state of Montana for approving additional wolf trapping that could harm or kill grizzly bears.

While one should never say never, fire officials are feeling optimistic that the end of the 2023 fire season may be at hand.

An effort to purchase 480 acres on Marshall Mountain took another step forward on Tuesday when Missoula County approved an option agreement with Five Valleys Land Trust.

Some residents around the city, including experts, believe the deer population has now reached a threshold that requires organized action.

The 2021 Montana Legislature passed several bills increasing the length of season, types and uses of traps, snares and hunting aids to kill wolves and black bears. Trappers can now use neck snares in addition to leg-hold and Conibar body-squeezing traps.

A strong bipartisan majority of the Montana Legislature has passed a bill using marijuana tax revenue to fund Habitat Montana and county road maintenance, but supporters anticipate a governor's veto.