This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast we are doing something for the first time ever! We are doing a Montana Outdoor Podcast Double Feature! That’s right, you will be able to watch two different podcasts this week. This half of our double feature (the one you are looking at now) has your host Downrigger Dale talking to FWP Region 1 Wildlife Manager Neil Anderson about what the hunting will be like in Montana FWP Region 1 located in Northwest Montana. This podcast is all about what Region 1, like it’s terrain, size, how much public access is there and how much private access is there through block management and other access programs and more. Plus, you will learn all about what you can hunt in region 1 and where you can find those critters, from Black Bear, Mule and Whitetail Deer, Elk, Mountain Lion, Upland Game Birds, Waterfowl and Wolf. Region 1 has some great opportunities including one species that you can harvest 30 of if you do it right! The second half of our podcast Double Feature is all about Region 2, located in the central part of Western Montana. Rigger heads to Missoula to talk to MT FWP Regional Access Manager, Trenton Heisel. Be sure and watch that as well. You can find it right here on the Montana Outdoor Podcast YouTube Channel. Watching both of these great podcasts will for sure make you a Region 1 and 2 hunting genius!
Links:
Click below for more info about Region 1.
https://fwp.mt.gov/aboutfwp/regions/region1
Click below to access the FWP Hunt Planner to plan you hunts in any region in Montana.
https://fwp.mt.gov/gis/maps/huntPlanner/?species=muledeer&showOwn=true&showRef=true
Click below to get all the block management info and BMA maps for both Region 1 & 2!
https://fwp.mt.gov/hunt/access/blockmanagement/region-1-2
Click the link below for Deer, Elk and Antelope hunting regulations.
https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/hunt/regulations/2025/2025-dea-regulations-final-for-web.pdf
Click below for Upland Game Bird regulations.
https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/hunt/regulations/2025/2025-upgbrd-final-for-web.pdf
Click below for Waterfowl regs.
https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/hunt/regulations/2025/2025-mig-bird–webless-final-for-web.pd
Click below to get the Wolf Hunting regulations for Montana.
https://fwp.mt.gov/binaries/content/assets/fwp/hunt/regulations/2025/2025-wolf-and-furbearer-final-for-web.pdf
Click here to get the Region 1 hunting Forecast.
https://fwp.mt.gov/homepage/news/2025/aug/0821-region-1-bg-forecast
Click below for the Upland Game Bird Season Outlook for Montana.
https://fwp.mt.gov/homepage/news/2025/aug/0820-ugb-forecast
Questions? Click below to email our guest Neil Anderson in Region 1.
nanderson@mt.gov
Course, you can always email your old buddy Downrigger Dale. His email is below.
Downrigger@MontanaOutoor.com
More notes and links below.
