Archive for year: 2020

Trophy Deer Poached South of Billings…Reward Offered

 BILLINGS – Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is offering a reward for information about a trophy mule deer buck that was killed illegally and left to waste near Stratford Road in the hills south of Billings on Sept. 28, 2020.   FWP game wardens also are looking for information about two men in a light-colored late-1990s or early-2000s Chevrole...

Montana Conservation Voters Oppose BLM’s William Perry Pendley As Acting Director While Interior Appeals Ouster

A federal judge forced acting director of the Bureau of Land Management William Perry Pendley to step down Friday but he remains at the agency and the Interior Department has said it will challenge the ruling. Aaron Murphy with Montana Conservation Voters says conservation groups opposed his nomination from the start because he’s a forme...

WGFD Assisting U. S. Fish & Wildlife Grizzly Investigations

– The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is assisting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with two investigations involving conflicts between archery hunters and grizzly bears.   On the evening of Sept. 24, a man who was archery hunting for elk in the Thorofare was attacked and injured by a grizzly bear. He was airlifted to a local hos...