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.

Expanded opportunities for sage grouse hunting will be offered this year in Montana as bird populations have rebounded well after two years of favorable spring weather conditions. Though the brief ...

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 ...

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 larger ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The latest on a proposal to ship sage grouse from Montana to Canada to bolster the population (all times local): 11:15 a.m. Montana has approved a program to relocate dozens of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Montana will send 40 sage grouse hens to Alberta this year in an effort to boost cross-border populations of the game bird. “The Alberta sage grouse population has been suffering for a number of years ...

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 ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana's greater sage grouse population has fallen more than 40% over the past three years, mirroring recent declines across the U.S. West for the wide-ranging bird species ...

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 ...

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 ...