MISSOULA, Mont. — A Belgrade artist has won the 2023 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. Chuck Black’s oil painting will be made into the 2024-2025 Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation ...

As Montana’s mule deer population declines, a group of hunters has taken it upon themselves to craft a series of proposals to profoundly change the state’s deer and elk hunting seasons.

One Montana wolf hunting bill loses teeth, other fails in House floor vote. 0 Comments ... R-Belgrade, who had supported the original versions of both wolf reduction bills.

A package of bills reforming hunting and access programs are advancing through the legislature — the product of negotiations between outfitters and public hunter groups aimed at finding common ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Citing a recent lawsuit, some hunting and trapping advocates are backing a bill that would ...

Bills tweaking Montana aerial hunting laws meet hurdles in initial hearings Ranchers losing cattle and sheep to coyotes and foxes want to be able to hire out-of-state aerial hunters statewide to ...

A gray wolf in snow. (Eric Cole/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) After a relatively subdued floor debate — at least as far as wolf-related bills go — the Montana Senate on Friday voted to pass ...