Latest news from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks :.Ben Pierce | March 31, 2010
The National Wild Turkey Federation’s Montana State Chapter budgeted $30,750 from its state Hunting Heritage Super Fund to invest in outreach, education, conservation, increased land access and other projects in 2010. The NWTF Super Fund is administered jointly by the NWTF, its state and provincial chapters and wildlife agencies, and supports conservation and education programs. [...]
Ben Pierce | March 31, 2010
The Bozeman Recreation Department will offer a new class series this spring devoted to birds and bird watching around the Gallatin Valley. The class aims to educate birders with an in-depth study of all the birds that inhabit the valley during the summertime. Class participants will learn to identify birds by sight, sound, habitat and [...]
Ben Pierce | March 30, 2010
The weather is warming up and local climbers are shifting gear from ice to rock. Just in time for the spring climbing season, the Bozeman Boulder Initiative will hold a fundraising event entitled “Climb On!” on March 31, 2010 to support the construction of recreational climbing boulders in Bozeman city parks. The first boulder constructed [...]
Ben Pierce | March 24, 2010
FREEZEOUT LAKE – At 6 o’clock on Sunday morning, headlights streamed off Highway 89 between Choteau and Fairfield onto the gravel road that loops around Freezeout Lake Wildlife Management Area. The prairie is quiet, save for the calls of a few snow geese rocketing overhead in a heavy gale. The headlights rumble over the washboard [...]
Ben Pierce | March 23, 2010
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks has awarded Madison River Foundation with a $3,800 grant. The money will be used to support riparian fencing along a four-mile stretch of the Madison River on the Granger Ranch in the Madison Valley south of Ennis. The FWP grant was funded by the department’s Future Fisheries [...]
Ben Pierce | March 23, 2010
The Sacajawea Audubon Society will host guest speaker Rick Wallen at its monthly meeting on April 12. Wallen is a Yellowstone National Park wildlife biologist involved with the Bison Ecology and Management Program. Bison restoration to the headwaters of the Madison and Yellowstone rivers has been an ongoing effort within the park for more than [...]
Ben Pierce | March 19, 2010
Here’s a video fishing report from the Madison River on Thursday afternoon. I headed out to Bear Trap Canyon under partly cloudy skies and the midges appeared along the river as soon as I reached the broad turn at Black’s Ford on Highway 84. The midges came off in waves most of the afternoon. Conditions [...]
Ben Pierce | March 18, 2010
Here’s a video from the Missoula-based Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF) on the importance of conservation to preserve elk, other wildlife and their habitat for future generations. The video shows some of the many areas across the Rocky Mountain West that RMEF has worked to preserve including the 207-acre Spooner Creek parcel in Ravali County. [...]
Ben Pierce | March 18, 2010
Bozeman-area climber Phil Knight is on a mission. It’s a mission he never imagined for himself, but one that has taken him to some of the most remote and rugged regions of the Rocky Mountain West. “I am trying to climb the highest peaks in all the ranges in the greater Yellowstone region,” Knight said [...]
Ben Pierce | March 17, 2010
Celebrate the Spring Equinox this Saturday and Sunday at the Equinox Ski Challenge in West Yellowstone. Cross-country skiers of all abilities are invited to attend the challenge which pits relay teams of up to eight members against one another in friendly competition. The goal of the Equinox Ski Challenge is to complete as many laps [...]
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