By Eve Byron - December 27, 2019 - Originally published in the Missoulian Jim Crews’ petition to allow hovercraft to operate on the Bitterroot and Clark Fork rivers through Missoula year-round is set to come before Montana’s Fish and Wildlife Commission during a special work session on Jan. 6 in Helena. Previously, the commission postponed the hovercraft hearing until the commission’s Feb. 6 meeting. But the hearing was moved up a month after commissioners decided to also work at the January ...

By Richard Cherepak and Todd Onsorge Yukon Territory is vast, rugged and sparsely populated. Slightly larger than California, Yukon covers an area of 482,443 square kilometers, yet only has 4,850 kilometers of maintained roads (for comparison, Yukon’s western neighbor, Alaska, has more than 25,000 kilometers of public roads). Resident hunters can live the backcountry hunter’s dream – hiking ridges and valleys in isolated and wild terrain in pursuit of caribou, bison, thinhorn sheep, ...

December 19, 2019   The Montana Chapter of BHA PO Box 9257 Missoula, MT 59808   Jennifer Alexander Outdoor Recreation Planner jalexander@blm.gov BLM Billings Field Office5001 Southgate DriveBillings, MT 59101   Re: Pryors Draft Travel Management Plan EA (DOI-BLM-MT-C010-2019-0029-EA)   Dear Ms. Alexander:   The Montana Chapter Backcountry Hunters & Anglers provides the following comments on the Draft EA re: Pryor Mountains Travel Management. Our membership of more than 3,250 Montana hunters ...

By Thomas Baumeister - December 19, 2019 - Originally published in the Missoulian Montana has a lot of elk — 134,557, to be more precise. Elk are part of our state’s identity and we’re better for it. Yet, according to the Elk Management Plan put forth by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, this is 42,419 elk too many. Pressured by landowners and legal mandates to drive elk numbers down, FWP created additional hunting seasons called elk shoulder seasons (ESSs). ESSs occur outside of the ...

British Columbia’s wildlife and habitat faces unprecedented and accelerating challenges due to climate change, increasing human activity and competing pressures on the land base. The status quo is resulting in the degradation and loss of habitat and declining wildlife populations. Recognizing that change is necessary, the province has recently released the Together For Wildlife Strategy as a proposed pathway for improved wildlife management and habitat conservation. Within this strategy the ...