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For proof, resident hunters have pointed to the statistic that between 2012 and 2022, nonresident hunter numbers increased by 80% as resident hunter numbers fell by 7%.

Montana hunters agree on many things, but a bill to give elk tags to nonresident landowners isn’t one of them.

Conservationists are amassing to oppose a Legislative bill that would go against voters’ wishes and permanently cut marijuana tax money out of Montana’s popular habitat acquisition program.

This week, U.S. Congress members are working to finalize the omnibus bill for the rest of the fiscal year. The bill will potentially include funding for Recovering America’s Wildlife Act

Missoula women start a service that allows new hunters to borrow equipment and ‘feel really welcome in the space.’

Against the will of many Montana hunters, the 2021 Legislature passed House Bill 637, a hodgepodge of items proposed by the FWP Directors Office, that included spending about $1 million on a pheasant stocking program.

It seems that nobody is happy with the state of elk management in Montana.

A Fergus County district court judge has granted the request of hunting and access groups to intervene in opposition to a lawsuit seeking to overturn Montana elk hunting regulations.

A District Court judge has ruled that a coalition of Montana hunting and conservation groups can intervene in a lawsuit over game management.

U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana is proposing legislation that he says would ease restrictions on some federally managed lands in the state. But the bill is being met with opposition from public lands advocacy groups.