attracted 10,363 individual applicants for the either sex bison licenses for the Nov. 15 - Feb. 15, 2010 season, including 909 nonresidents. Of these applicants, 34 residents and two nonresidents were successful in the drawing.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials are asking hunters, outfitters, landowners, and others in portions of southern and north-central Montana to help with studies of two serious wildlife diseases.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has approved the following ice fishing contests for winter 2010. Participants must comply with state fishing regulations, including daily and possession limits. Details on fishing contests are on a tab on the FWP Web site

A new state habitat enhancement program is providing eastern Montana landowners incentives to extend their participation in the Conservation Reserve Program, a federal offering that in part improves wildlife habitat.

Throughout the year, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is called on to respond to wildlife that come in close contact with homeowners and residential areas. FWP most frequently responds to calls related to black bears and grizzly bears, and, less

When you hunt Montana you have the opportunity to take part in some of the finest hunting found anywhere. But each autumn, some individuals unwittingly or knowingly violate the state's game laws.

Not all residents of Montana's prairie dog towns are prairie dogs, or even relatives of the prairie dog. Black-tailed prairie dogs, mountain plovers, and burrowing owls frequently share the landscape in a prairie dog town. The prairie dog is a

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) is seeking public comment on proposed site improvements at Russell Gates Fishing Access Site (FAS) on the Blackfoot River. The proposal calls for creating a designated day-use parking area with up to 30 parking

The hunting of all mountain lions in southwestern Montana hunting district 317, which includes portions of Park County, will close at one-half hour after sunset on Friday, October 30, 2009. The closure notice for the hunt came shortly after Montana,

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is pleased to announce the opening of a new fishing access site in Region 3 on Lake Helena approximately 12 miles northeast of Helena. FWP entered into a cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation

Proposals from tribes, private groups and land-management agencies capable of caring for 50 to100 disease-free bison and any offspring from Montana are due Monday, Nov. 2. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks issued a revised request for proposals earlier this month

FWP Wardens cited a Columbia Falls man for killing two wolves during a closed season in Whale Creek in the North Fork Flathead drainage. The wolves were shot and left along the Whale Creek Road the morning of October 9.

Elk harvest was up compared to 2008 in the opening days of the 2009 big game season in southwest Montana. White-tailed deer harvest was on par with 2008 while mule deer harvest was down slightly. Overall on opening weekend about