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Although only around 7 percent of the 12,730 hunting trips in West Central Montana have been successful, those odds are actually pretty good compared to the recent past.

Hunting season is well underway and according to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokeswoman Vivica Crowser Elk hunters in Western Montana have been doing better in 2013 than last year.

A moose found dead in Missoula County has authorities looking for a poacher.

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks is looking for anyone who might have information about vandalism caused at the Bolin Ranch Conservation Easement near Stevensville.

I just got a couple of great pictures from Bruce Auchly who is the FWP press guy over in Great Falls.

Over one hundred dead white-tailed deer have been reported in the west Missoula Valley. FWP first responded to reports from local fishing guides and landowners who reported numerous dead deer in and along the Clark Fork River and fields near and downstream from Harper’s Bridge...

Hungry?

A group of Yellowstone Bison, on media mogul Ted Turner's Montana ranch, are now the subject of a legal fight between environmental groups seeking the reintroduction of wild bison and Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks.

Wolf population declines slightly, report says.

The final tally for the 2012-2013 wolf season has been released.

On the morning of Tuesday December 9, a 911 call came in with reports that a Florence area woman had been attacked by a white tail deer.

The first full week of open rifle season has passed and harvests for both mule deer and white-tailed deer are up 23% compared to last year. Elk harvests, on the other hand, are down by nearly the same amount. A total of 58 mule deer, 153 white-tailed deer 204 elk along with one black bear, one bighorn sheep, and moose have been harvested so far...