Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks received a report Aug. 13 of a buck antelope found on private land off Highway 323 near Alzada with its head removed and the meat left to waste.

In the early morning hours of last Sunday, August 17th, Deputies were dispatched to a call for service at the Ice Cream Shop at Camp Richardson in South Lake Tahoe. The deputies could barely believe their eyes as they saw a large bear behind the counter of the shop.

While the source of infection for this latest infected bull has not yet been determined, DNA genotyping and epidemiological investigations have concluded that the previous 13 infections came from wild elk.

It’s huckleberry season in western Montana. Though nearly all hucks grow in the state’s northwestern region, picking is a statewide calling. Picking berries is easy, but it helps to know where to look.

Fifteen teams from eight states gathered this weekend at Camp Guernsey Join Training Center for the 2025 Marksmanship Advisory Council (MAC) Region VI Championship. Montana fielded two teams in the competition, with Alpha Team delivering a standout performance.

Warrants for the arrest of a Michigan father and son have been issued following a series of wildlife violations in Treasure County.

Beginning as early as Tuesday, August 12, 2025, public access on Red Meadow Road (National Forest System Road 115) will have periodic delays to allow for a road and watershed improvement project.

Beginning Wednesday, August 13, 2025, a closure order will be in place for Logan Creek – Hoke Creek Road (National Forest System Road 1625) for public safety.

For many reasons, 2023 was the “Holy Grail Year” for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ pallid sturgeon recovery efforts in the Yellowstone River drainage

Date: August 1, 2025Contact:Amber Smigiel, 907-202-0156 A fatal vehicle collision occurred early this morning near mile 235 of the George Parks […]

Beginning Wednesday August 6, 2025, East Side Hungry Horse Reservoir Road (National Forest System Road 38) will be limited to one lane […]

he wheeled motorized vehicle closure on National Forest System Road (NFSR)#2004 (Hellroaring Road), located approximately 10 miles south of Red Lodge and providing access to the Hell Roaring Plateau Trailhead, has been extended, from August 1, 2025 through September 30, 2025 for public safety due to equipment use during bridge installation on the Beartooth Ranger District of the Custer Gallatin National Forest.

Canadian citizens visiting Glacier National Park would be exempt from the surcharge in recognition of our joint stewardship of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.

The grizzly bear was captured in association with conflict management efforts for cattle depredation on the national forest.

On Monday morning, July 28, a 17-year-old male suffered significant thermal burns to his foot and ankle area in the vicinity of Lone Star Geyser near Old Faithful.

43 teams participated in the Hell Creek Walleye Tournament and the top four teams all brought in more than 100 pounds!

43 teams are participating in the 2025 Hell Creek Walleye Tournament. Here are your Day 1 Leaders!

Eleven taxidermied bull elk and mule deer bucks seized 

BUTTE, Mont. – The Bureau of Land Management’s Butte Field Office will begin a series of improvements this week to enhance […]

On July 20, a four-year-old child was injured by a mountain lion near the Victoria Overlook area on Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park.

Zinke proposes several policy provisions including delisting the grizzly bear, prohibits funding to list the wolverine under the endangered species act, blocks enforcement of Canadian Lynx ESA provisions, and bans introduction of bison on the CMR National Wildlife Refuge

After killing the moose, Black attempted to load the carcass into his vehicle but became stuck in the snow. He hiked out to get help, where he was picked up by two hunters. The hunters found his story suspicious and noted inconsistencies in what he told them.

Conservation Officers began their investigation in December of 2023, after receiving information from a member of the community through the poaching hotline. Officers quickly responded to the call, discovering a trophy-class mule deer buck that was illegally shot, hidden, and left.  

28 teams competed in the Fort Peck Women's Tournament, a one-day event, held Saturday out of the dam. See who took home the top prize here, with final results.

It all started on June 7, when the bear crushed an unoccupied tent at the campsite.

Lewis and Clark County Public Health is asking you to help them spread the word about a Harmful Algal Bloom on Lake Helena.

A grizzly bear charged a man near his residence along Foothill Road east of Kalispell on the night of July 10. 

The Lake County Sheriff's Office and Search and Rescue responded to the report of a capsized boat at about 9am today near the end of Rocky Point on Flathead Lake. 

Governor Greg Gianforte last week continued his 56 County Tour in Valley County and celebrated a new law that increases upland bird hunting opportunities for Montana residents.

“Water-quality monitoring conducted by Save Wild Trout in the Jefferson River basin during 2023 and 2024 identified notable patterns of thermal and oxygen-related stress in three of the four rivers evaluated. Free-flowing systems, including the Big Hole and Jefferson rivers, exhibited widespread impacts with water temperature and dissolved oxygen exceeding thresholds suitable for juvenile or adult salmonids at multiple locations."

Aaron Goettsche is no stranger to monster Lake Trout. An avid angler, fishing rod maker, and longtime veteran on Utah’s/Wyoming's famous Flaming Gorge Reservoir – a world-renowned fishery known for producing Lake Trout over 30 pounds and occasional giants up to 60 – Aaron knows what a trophy looks like.

A mountain biker safely managed a close encounter with a bear while riding on the Starry Goat Trail on national forestland near Troy last week. 

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has confirmed the detection of a Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has confirmed the detection of a non-native brown trout in the Flathead River upstream of Pressentine Fishing Access Site near Evergreen, and anglers are encouraged to submit any additional brown trout caught within the drainage.

173 teams competed for the 2025 Montana Governor’s Cup Walleye Tournament on Friday and Saturday, but only one took home the first place prize of $15,000. Here are your final results!

173 teams competed for the 2025 Montana Governor’s Cup Walleye Tournament on Friday and Saturday! The first place prize is $15,000. Here are your Day 2 Top 60! We'll post final results as soon as they are received.

Strong winds and strong weights out of Fort Peck Reservoir today, where 173 teams competed for the 2025 Montana Governor's Cup Walleye Tournament. The first place prize is $15,000. Click here to see your Day 1 leaders!

Montana is a trout fishing mecca, home to pristine trout waters and 16 members of the salmonid fish family. Among these 16 species is the golden trout – a stunning, high-alpine specialist species native only to the Kern River drainage of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains. Golden trout can be found in some of Montana’s remote high mountain lakes and are, for many anglers, a bucket-list species. Before you lace up your hiking boots and strap on your pack to reach these unique fish, fisheries staff with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks have already put on many miles and backcountry nights to simply get golden trout eggs to a hatchery. Unlike many other trout species raised at Montana hatcheries, golden trout eggs are collected from a wild population in south-central Montana’s Sylvan Lake, rather than from a resident broodstock of adult fish that live at the hatchery. Typically, every six years, Region 5 fisheries, Fish Health and Yellowstone River Trout Hatchery staff hike to Sylvan Lake in the East Rosebud Creek drainage. Crews set gill nets near the outlet of the lake where golden trout spawn, and collect ripe, or sexually mature, male and female trout. Timing has to be just right; golden trout spawn as soon as ice melts. Sitting at 9,184 feet above sea level, ice-out at Sylvan Lake typically does not happen until late June or early July. After ripe adults are collected, crews mix eggs from females with milt, or sperm-containing fluid, from males. To ensure the spawned fish do not have diseases that could be transferred to other hatchery fish, crews will collect the carcasses of some of the spawned fish for testing. Just last week, FWP crews collected 7,200 golden trout eggs from Sylvan Lake. These eggs are now developing at the Yellowstone River Trout Hatchery in Big Timber. When the golden trout are about 1.5 inches long, they’ll be stocked via helicopter in high mountain lakes across Montana. July and August are the best times of year to access many golden trout lakes, especially high elevation lakes in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. Every year, FWP publishes a guide with detailed angling and access information for over 300 lakes in this wilderness area. Find it online here and start planning your next trout fishing adventure.

While an adipose fin may seem unnecessary for a fish, FWP biologists can find it helpful in distinguishing a wild trout from a hatchery trout or, in Holter Lake, between two strains of hatchery fish.

In Montana, grizzly bear populations have expanded in both number and in distribution along both sides of the Continental Divide and in the Greater Yellowstone area. In many instances, grizzly bears are expanding into areas they haven’t been in more than a century.  

At approximately 5:54 pm on Wednesday, July 9, Glacier National Park Dispatch received a report of an individual who had fallen from Mount Gould above the Highline Trail.

 Governor Greg Gianforte announced an agreement between the State of Montana and Butte-Silver Bow (BSB) that secures water releases from Silver Lake to improve instream flows in the Clark Fork River.

56 violations! Five of the seven deer were killed in a single 24-hour period.

Thanks to a tip submitted through Fish and Game’s Citizens Against Poaching hotline, a Coeur d’Alene man was convicted of a felony for unlawfully taking wildlife.

The permitted operations include existing activities with no change to the authorized facilities or footprint of the Lodge. Kalispell, Mont., […]

Prickly Pear Land Trust (PPLT) has installed Helena’s first outdoor wheelchair charging station, explicitly implemented to support outdoor recreation. Now open at Tenmile Creek Park, the station helps ensure people who use power wheelchairs can explore with greater independence and peace of mind.

Robert and Valerie Anderson have partnered with Northern Yellowstone Open Lands, a regional initiative of the Gallatin Valley Land Trust (GVLT), to forever conserve their 884-acre historic family ranch, located southwest of Livingston in the Trail Creek area.

The project will result in the temporary closure of Road 699 above the Lee Creek campground from July 7th through September 30th to allow for the replacement of three culverts on Lee Creek Road. 

Governor Greg Gianforte and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Chief Tom Schultz on Monday formalized a landmark Shared Stewardship Agreement between the State of Montana and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service.

60 teams competed in the Canyon Ferry Walleye Festival Friday and Saturday, with two teams tying for first place!

Low weights dominated day 1 of Canyon Ferry Walleye Festival.  A tough bite and small fish for the 60 teams competing in the tournament.