On July 15th, Montana BHA volunteers gathered to give the sagebrush steppe SW of Dillon a little love. We teamed up with the National Wildlife Federation, private landowners, and the BLM to remove a section of problematic fence along a public/private boundary. Such fencing creates a barrier for big game, especially antelope, and can lead to higher rates of mortality for nesting sage grouse. The fence will soon be replaced with a wildlife friendly fence, meaning higher off-the-ground ...

On June 3rd, 2023, despite a dismal weather forecast, 23 conservationists showed up to pull more than a mile of old woven and barbed wire fencing in SW Montana. BHA members and volunteers from all over the state met up with Simon Buzzard from the National Wildlife Federation who provided some conservation history and project goals before we loaded up and drove towards the work site, a region called Horse Prairie. So why were we focused on this specific part of the state? In 2020, Montana ...

Four Montana moose hunters and 60 bighorn sheep tag applicants are in for some very bad news. Fish, Wildlife & Parks over-allocated these highly prized tags in seven different hunting districts in its recent drawing. Realizing the mistake, the agency is issuing a recall. Operator error inputting incorrect quotas was to blame, said Greg Lemon, FWP spokesman. Although the data is double-checked, the errors weren’t caught. The bureau’s staff realized the error on May 16 and put a block on ...