Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has backpedaled on a controversial elk management strategy after a public response that FWP Director Henry “Hank” Worsech described as a “firestorm.” Even after the department backed away from the most contentious proposal it had planned to present to the Fish and Wildlife Commission, public commenters continued to raise concerns at yesterday’s commission meeting in Helena about a process they said has been rushed and favors large landowners and brings the ...

The Colorado chapter of Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA) recently appointed Brittany Parker, Genevieve Villamizar, and Andrew Coe to serve as Assistant Regional Directors for the Roaring Fork Valley.  Brittany Parker: Brittany was born and raised in Rifle, Colorado. She started fishing with her dad when she could hold a rod and is an adult onset hunter. “I have wanted to learn to hunt for around a decade but was always intimidated by it and did not have anyone in my life who hunted,” she ...

State wildlife managers will not move forward with a controversial proposal in eight hunting districts to eliminate limited-entry hunting permits for bull elk on private land in favor of general licenses while maintaining permits on public land. Staff with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks met with the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission for a work session Monday afternoon ahead of Tuesday’s commission meeting. On Tuesday the commission is set to take up hunting season proposals from the ...

After almost a year of watching political decisions degrade some of Montana’s wildlife management, hunters have come together to see if public involvement still has the power to sway policy. Over the weekend, hunters from various groups including the Montana Wildlife Federation and Backcountry Hunters and Anglers met to devise a statewide strategy to lobby the Gianforte administration to return to sound elk management and to preserve opportunity for resident, do-it-yourself hunters, instead ...

When FWP calls for help, Montana BHA volunteers answer! On Saturday, Dec. 11th, 24 volunteers from Montana BHA joined forces with 19 other volunteers from Montana Wild Sheep Foundation and members of the public to help FWP biologists survey bighorn sheep in the Highland Mountains near Butte. All of us strapped on our boots, hiked into the backcountry and spent the day glassing for and counting rocky mountain bighorns. FWP area wildlife biologist Vanna Boccadori met with volunteers the ...