HELENA, Mont.– The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will hold an emergency public meeting on Monday, March 31, to discuss potentially closing bighorn sheep hunting in hunting district 622 for 2025 ...

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Amy Quinlivan, Clark Fork Valley Press & Mineral Independent, Plains, Mont. Mar. 12—Hunting in Montana isn't just limited to the season of fall. It's an ingrained culture, a way of life, a primal ...

Bighorn sheep populations have plummeted so drastically in northeastern Montana's Hunting District 622 that only one either-sex and one ewe bighorn sheep tag will be offered this season. Montana Fish, ...

Montana's youth deer-only hunt kicks off the beginning of expanded seasons across the state. The youth hunt, which does not include elk, will be held Thursday and Friday, coinciding with the state's ...

BILLINGS – In 1980, a band of bighorn sheep was captured from the Sun River area along the Rocky Mountain Front and moved to a foreign landscape to the east, north of Montana’s massive Fort Peck ...

Although two bighorn rams from the Middle Missouri Breaks herd tested positive for a bacteria that can lead to pneumonia, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks officials can’t say that’s what led to the ...

Less than two weeks before the deadline for permit applications, state big-game officials have closed a bighorn sheep hunting district near Plains because of a disease outbreak. A helicopter ...

The following is a press release from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks: HELENA, Mont. – Test results from two rams from bighorn sheep hunting district 622 have tested positive for a microorganism that ...