Black bear hunters are alerted that the fall black bear season in hunt areas 1 and 2 closed at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. The closed areas are located in the northern Bighorn Mountains. The 2020 fall black bear hunting season closes for each hunt area or group of hunt areas when the female mortality limit has been reached or o...
2020 Census Means Much To Rural States Like Montana As New Study Indicates 12% Of $1.5 Trillion Comes To Montana From Programs Guided By The Census
An accurate census count is important to rural states like Montana where about 12% of $1.5 trillion comes from programs guided by census data each year according to a new study. The study’s author Andrew Reamer says that means states like Montana have a lot at stake in the 2020 Census. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads...
Missoula County To Host A Virtual Montana Passenger Rail Summit To Push For Restoration Of Southern Montana Rail Service
Missoula County will host a virtual Montana Passenger Rail Summit Thursday Sept. 17th from 10 to 2 to educate and advocate for the restoration of passenger rail service to southern Montana and continued support for the Empire Builder. The event will also showcase current efforts to establish the Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority the first of it...
Montana’s Longest Table Event’s 4th Annual Going On In Lewistown Through Saturday
In the wake of COVID-19 consumers are taking more of an interest in where their food comes from. Farmers start the supply chain to your home and to help bridge the urban-rural divide the 4th annual Montana’s Longest Table Event is taking place through Saturday in Lewistown. Abbie Majerus is one of the organizers who says they are doing i...
MT Hunting Forecast
Are you ready for hunting season? FWP can help. In addition to the following hunting forecast, FWP provides online information about hunting access, including our popular Block Management Program. Through the program, we coordinate with landowners to provide hunting access to more than 7 million acres of private land. Read the full story at fw...
Governor Steve Bullock Announce FEMA Grants Thursday For Three Montana Wildfires Burning Large Areas This Week
Thursday afternoon Governor Steve Bullock during a press conference announced immediate designations for FEMA Federal Management Assistance Grants for the three larger fires burning in Montana this week namely the Rice Snider and Bobcat Fires. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Untitled-14-1.mp3
Attorney General Tim Fox And Other AG’s Ask FDA To Prohibit FDA Orange Book To Block Competition
Attorney General Tim Fox has joined a bipartisan coalition of 23 states and territory attorneys general in signing a bipartisan letter urging the Food and Drug Administration to prohibit use of the FDA Orange Book to block competition. The bottom line is to help keep costs down when patents run out. https://northernbroadcasting.com/wp-content/...
Important Steps to Follow in MT
Block Management Program 2020 Block Management Area (BMA) Hunting Access Guide and individual BMA map/rules are now available to download and print online. With the COVID pandemic, we are trying to limit BMA walk-in traffic to our offices, and hunters are strongly encouraged to utilize our web resources. Complete details available on the MT FW...
ND Overnight Camping lifted for the Holiday
Overnight Camping Restriction Lifted for Holiday The North Dakota Game and Fish Department will lift the Tuesday-Wednesday camping restriction on state wildlife management areas for the upcoming Labor Day holiday week. The removal of the restriction will allow overnight camping Sept. 8-9 on those WMAs that otherwise have this two-day restricti...
WY Hunting Updates
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department needs help from hunters this fall to collect lymph node samples from deer and elk for chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing in focused monitoring hunt areas across Wyoming. Hunters are a very important component in helping Game and Fish understand the disease and achieve CWD monitoring goals. “We are...