Latest news from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks :.Ben Pierce | May 31, 2010
Sad news out of Billings this weekend … Longtime Billings Gazette outdoors writer Mark Henckel died on Saturday night after suffering a heart attack at his Park City home. He was 59. Henckel, the Gazette’s first outdoors editor, wrote stories about the outdoors for more than 38 years. His writing often focused on Montana’s world-class [...]
Ben Pierce | May 29, 2010
The Gallatin Valley Land Trust – a member supported, nonprofit organization aimed at conserving Southwest Montana’s heritage of open landscapes, working farms and ranches, healthy rivers, and wildlife habitat – is looking for volunteers to lend their support on June 5, 2010. Celebrating the “Main Street to the Mountains” trail system, GVLT will host its [...]
Ben Pierce | May 28, 2010
Interested in owning a little piece of history? Bridger Bowl announced plans Thursday to hold a special lottery for 175 red Riblet chairs from the recently-retired Bridger and Deer Park lifts. The 75-pound chairs stand eight feet tall with stem. Some were used at the ski area for more than 30 years. Entry fee for [...]
Ben Pierce | May 28, 2010
There is nothing like hitting Montana’s small town rodeos in the summer. This past weekend, on a road trip to Lake Koocanusa, I was fortunate enough to catch the Bucking Horse Futurity in Eureka, a small ranching and timber town a stone’s throw from the Canadian border. Before setting north from Bozeman last Thursday evening, [...]
Ben Pierce | May 27, 2010
I couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve pedaled my bike along West College Street. For a time I lived behind Albertsons on South 20th Avenue and took the short ride to the Chronicle’s offices a couple blocks away on a nearly daily basis. Often on my ride I’d peer down into the sometimes stagnant, [...]
Ben Pierce | May 25, 2010
I lost my fishing waders this past weekend. That’s right, lost them. Somewhere along the line on a weekend road trip to the Yaak River and Lake Koocanusa in northwest Montana, the only pair of quality fishing waders I’ve ever owned flew from the storage compartment atop the car and wound up roadside. Those waders [...]
Ben Pierce | May 19, 2010
Mountain bikers finally got a dose of brilliant weather last weekend as puffy clouds, warm temperatures and sunshine rode high over Montana’s big sky. Within the next month, more and more trails will open up after a wet and snowy spring. And before long those classic rides in the Bangtails and Gallatins will be a [...]
Ben Pierce | May 17, 2010
Fly fishing with friends on the Jefferson River on Sunday, David Thompson of Bozeman captured these pictures of a gray wolf. Thompson, fishing with friends Bill Kemph and Robert Parton, came across this wolf around midday while fishing a series of channels near Silver Star. “We stopped the boat above a few channels, and not [...]
Ben Pierce | May 12, 2010
For nearly two years Gregg Treinish and Deia Schlosberg blazed their own trail. Moving ever southward, battling through bouts of giardia, typhoid and worms; the two Bozeman adventurers made their way down the longest mountain range in the world – the Andes of South America. Unbeknownst to them, they were in the midst of an [...]
Ben Pierce | May 12, 2010
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks has announced that Parker Homestead near Three Forks will no longer be a state park. Citing budget constraints, FWP decline to renew its lease on the 1-acre park when its 25-year-old lease came due on Jan. 1. “Frankly we are struggling to manage all the sites we [...]
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