Outdoors
News from the Natural Resources Conservation Service BOZEMAN – Abundant moisture spilled into the Treasure State from the Pacific during January, boosting snowpack in all river basins to near or above normal for Feb. 1. In some locations, the amount of water added to the snowpack was record setting. Between Dec. 30 and Feb. 1, snowpack telemetry sites west of the Continental Divide received up to 18 inches of snow water equivalent, roughly proportionate to 100 to 150-plus inches of snowfall. Five SNOTEL sites would go on to set new records for monthly totals and four SNOTEL sites reported their second highest on record. “November and December were particularly dry, resul...
News from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks MONTANA – Hunters and anglers can expect a few changes this year when they buy their 2020 licenses starting March 1. The most visible change Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks customers will see is a change to license paper. Starting this year, both lice...
News from FWP MONTANA — A second moose has tested positive for chronic wasting disease in northwest Montana. A hunter harvested the bull moose during the last week of the general hunting season near Fawn Creek southeast of Libby. The moose was harvested within the Libby CWD Management Zone near th...
News from FWP MONTANA – The harvesting of bull trout on Lake Koocanusa is closed in an effort to improve the diminished population of the threatened species. The Fish and Wildlife Commission on Jan. 6 approved a request from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks regional biologists to implement the ...
The Mission valley isn’t generally balmy in December, but the record-setting month brought temperatures above average this year. St. Ignatius recorded 60.88 degrees on December 21. The average temperature for that date is 35 degrees. Kalispell and Missoula broke high-temperature records for De...
News from the Flathead Audubon Society Robert Gentry will be the featured speaker at the Monday, Jan. 13, meeting from 7-9 p.m. at the Gateway West Community Room in Kalispell. Gentry has a biology degree from Hendrix College and attended the University of Missouri for graduate school where he studie...
News from FWP MONTANA – The Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Becoming an Outdoorswoman program is hosting an ice-fishing workshop on Jan. 24-25 in Missoula, and registration is open now. The workshop starts with an indoor class from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24 at FWP’s Miss...
FLATHEAD RESERVATION – Three grizzly bears have lost their lives due to separate vehicle collisions on U.S. Highway 93 on the Flathead Reservation this year. Although collisions are down compared to 2018, when six bears were lost on the highway, ranging from cubs to an adult female and male, ...
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MONTANA — Chad Bauer, a member of Gov. Steve Bullock’s Grizzly Bear Citizen Advisory Council, expressed a sense of urgency and unease on the second morning of the council’s Dec. 4-5 meeting in Missoula. Bauer and Bullock sat across from each other in a crowded conference room on th...
News from CSKT Division of Fire Prevention Flathead Indian Reservation outdoor burning is closed for the winter season. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Division of Fire Prevention program would like to let the public know that debris burning closed on Nov. 30. Open debris...
