HELENA — The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission approved a plan Thursday to close all or parts of 32 counties to sage-grouse hunting and to shorten the hunting season from two months to one.

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks reminds hunters to be extra careful to identify grouse while in the field. Hunting sharp-tailed grouse is prohibited. FWP biologists and conservation ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A $1.2 million conservation easement to protect sage grouse habitat on 4,417 acres of the ...

BILLINGS, Mont. | Montana is joining North Dakota and South Dakota as states that plan to curtail sage grouse hunting in response to a continued decline in the game bird's population. Montana wildlife ...

Brett French Lee Newspapers Dec 23, 2024 Dec 23, 2024 With land prices soaring in Montana, groups that assist landowners with conservation easements to protect sage grouse habitat from being developed ...

In a banner season for ruffs, with an old dog out in front, Bayfield County forester Mike Amman shows what makes great grouse ground. Mike Amman and his Weimaraner pointer, Sigg, work their way ...

A Montana federal judge wasn't convinced the One Big Beautiful Bill Act applied retroactively to leasing decisions.

BILLINGS — A cattlemen's group has ruffled the feathers of Montana's hunting community by ‘‘strongly'' recommending that landowners, livestock producers and hunters reduce hunting pressure on sage ...

BILLINGS – Citing concerns about increasing hunting pressure in eastern Montana, two amendments have been proposed to push back by two weeks the start of the upland game bird and bird dog training ...

Graphing The Montana sage grouse population data was contained in a graph based on a small group of leks used to aid the department in setting hunting seasons for the birds, but it closely matches a ...

Forty Montana sage grouse could get a plane ride to North Dakota in 2014 and 2015. The North Dakota Department of Game and Fish has asked the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks for two ...

Bob Barbo is known as a duck hunter. His family cars have never seen the inside of the ga­rage. It is reserved for two duck boats and vast piles of decoys. His dog is a Chesapeake and he shoots a ...