FWP hosting meetings to kick off biennial hunting season setting
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KALISPELL — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is hosting upcoming public meetings to kick off the biennial hunting season-setting process.
FWP is conducting scoping meetings around the state from June 15 to July 15. FWP staff will look to hunters to provide broad input on regulation changes they’d like to see. Staff will also look for feedback on a few specific proposals.
In our area of Montana, the meeting schedule is:Kalispell, June 29, 6 p.m., FWP Region 1 Office, with a virtual option (490 N. Meridian Rd.)
These scoping meetings are more formal than in past years and will replace the public meetings FWP used to hold to present and discuss tentative regulations. However, these scoping meetings are not the same as public comment meetings. FWP staff will listen at the scoping meetings and capture the general themes and then use the information to develop draft regulations, which will be released for public comment in October.
FWP will hold additional public meetings in early November to answer questions about the draft regulation proposals. Comment on the draft regulation proposals will be collected through the FWP website during the fall public commenting period. The final decision on regulations will come at the December Fish and Wildlife Commission meeting.
Hunting regulation changes are done every other year.
For more information and to provide general input, visit: https://fwp.mt.gov/aboutfwp/public-comment-opportunities/biennial-season-setting.
