Briefs for Dec. 18, 2019
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Deadline extended for dairy margin coverage
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 11, 2019 – Due to the prolonged and extensive impacts of weather events this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has extended the deadline to Dec. 20 for producers to enroll in the Dairy Margin Coverage program for the 2020 calendar year. The deadline had been Dec. 13. USDA announced it is also continuing to accept applications for the Market Facilitation Program through Dec. 20.
FWP to discuss proposed hunting date, structure changes
KALISPELL — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is hosting public meetings across northwest Montana (Region 1) in January to discuss proposed hunting season dates and structure changes. In Kalispell a meeting will be held on Jan. 3 at the Montana FWP Region 1 Headquarters, 490 N. Meridian, at 6 p.m.
Hunting season dates and structures are adopted biennially for most game species. The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission approved tentative proposals at its Dec. 5 meeting, and FWP is accepting public comment on an array of statewide proposals through 5 p.m., Jan. 22, 2020. The Commission will act on final adoptions or adjustments at the February 2020 commission meeting.
In Region 1, FWP is proposing hunting district boundary changes in the Flathead and Swan Valleys (remove HD 132 by placing private lands in expanded HD 170 and the Forest Service lands into expanded HDs 130 & 140) and the Bob Marshall (combine Hunting Districts 150 and 151), adding an over-the-counter 199-00 either-sex whitetail B license for the Libby Chronic Wasting Disease Management Zone (portions of HDs 100, 103, and 104), and changing the mountain lion special licenses by adding separate male and female special licenses in certain hunting districts.
For more information on proposals and to comment online, visit the FWP website under “Opportunity for Public Comment” at: fwp.mt.gov/hunting/, or visit: http://fwp.mt.gov/hunting/publicComments/2019/biennialSeasonSetting.html.
