Montana lawmakers last week advanced two bills seeking to change the allocation of taxes on recreational marijuana as the 69th Legislature closes in on its final days. Both bills revise the funding ...

Elinor Smith Visitation in Montana’s state parks has almost doubled in the past decade. That’s according to recent data collected by Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks in collaboration with the ...

Gabe is alright, but I thought this was pretty unusual behavior for a doe, so I headed over to Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks to see what they thought. “We see this occasionally with moose ...

Hoot – owl restrictions are in effect on the upper Madison River above Hebgen Lake, according to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Hoot – owl restrictions prohibit fishing from 2 p.m. to midnight each ...

LOGAN — Gunpowder aroma lingered in the air as cattle grazed a rangeland littered with bullet casings, pieces of orange clay targets and other blown-up garbage just west and south of the Logan ...

Montana will largely stay the course on a controversial plan to gradually reduce the statewide mountain lion population by 40%, despite emphatic objections from cat hunters. The Fish and Wildlife ...

A Lodgepole man has been charged in the illegal killing of a bull elk and two whitetail bucks in Blaine and Phillips counties in 2024, according to Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. Marvin Cole, 29 ...

Montana Morning Headlines: Thursday, June 19, 2025 Here's a look at your Thursday news headlines from across Western Montana Photo by: MONTANA FISH, WILDLIFE & PARKS ...

FWP now requires users of fishing access sites to purchase a conservation license. The requirement, initiated in 2023, requires everyone 12 and older to purchase one of the licenses to access most ...

Fish and Wildlife police officers from Grays Harbor County recently assisted Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks (MFWP) investigators with a large-scale investigation into a McCleary resident who ...

Shelby Holder of Kemmerer set the new record on June 6 with a 14-pound, 15.2-ounce fish caught in the Hams Fork River near Kemmerer. The fish was 31.2 inches long and had a girth of 19 inches.

In 2023, a state audit found a culture of retaliation among Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks’ leadership. Last week, legislators were told the agency has made progress, but there’s more work ahead.