Chuck Jonkel News Today

This piece was penned several years ago for Big Skys Lone Peak Lookout newspaper owing to the increase in bear and people encounters in the Madison

The 47th annual festival returns to the Roxy Theater this year.

There seems to be little support for artificially reintroducing grizzly bears into the Bitterroot Ecosystem (BE), the vast area of roadless wildlands in north-central Idaho and western Montana. The Helena

IWFF judges announced the winners of the 2023 event at the festival awards ceremony on Sunday night.

Bear researcher Allen Schallenberger used his Colt .357 magnum to scare off bears three times during his career, in the 1970's. He explains what happened in the first of these encounters.

In 1962, Chuck Jonkel of the Montana Fish & Game, using a .22 revolver, shot and killed a 500 lb male grizzly bear in self-defense.

Carrie Hunt - the founder and director of Florence’s Wind River Institute – Wind River Karelian Bear Dog Partners - has spent most of her life working to reduce conflicts

As crowds cheered, drank and partied at the University of Montana’s first home football game of the year, James Jonkel sat in his truck beneath a tree near Liquid Planet,