The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has confirmed a hunter-harvested cow elk has tested positive for chronic wasting disease in Elk Hunt Area 113. Elk Hunt Area 113 is located in the Sheridan Region and borders CWD-positive Elk Hunt Areas 123 to the north and 129 to the west, where CWD was detected in 2020 and 2021, respectively. To ensure ...
Hunter participation remains generally low in South Central MT
With just a week left in Montana’s 2021 general big-game season, hunters in south central Montana started filling their general tags and antlerless deer B tags over the weekend. But they were hampered in some places by high winds and warm temperatures, which made finding game less comfortable and more difficult. Overall, hunter participation r...
Billings
Billings Strong Campaign Billings Strong kicked off during the campaign. Led by Dan Carter, Leif Welhaven, and Jonna Jones, the team decided that they needed to do something in an effort to turn the negativity of the pandemic around. They started Billings Strong, a social and visual campaign (thanks to Ultra Graphics) that focused on the pos...
MT Bighorn Sheep Season to close Tuesday
By order of the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission, hunting district 500 in south central Montana, as described in the current moose, sheep and goat regulations legal descriptions, will close to the hunting of ALL bighorn sheep one-half hour after sunset on Tuesday, Nov. 23. The order halting the hunt came shortly after Montana Fish, Wildlif...
Big Timber
Art & Barb Sell Art Sell has been involved in promoting and developing the City of Big Timber for it seems as long a a Century. Art is in his 90’s but continues to make himself count. Long-time member of the City leadership, his wife Barb is responsible for the rehabilitation of the local Library. Art has been a member of the America...
WARM DRY WEATHER CONTINUES TO IMPACT HUNTER SUCCESS IN NORTH-CENTRAL MONTANA
Fewer hunters passing through the check station along with lower numbers of game harvested continues to be the theme for this year’s general rifle season in the Augusta area of FWP Region 4. To date the total deer and elk harvest is 33% below the recent average and is the lowest number of big game animals checked since at least 1994. A total o...
Last Reminder…WY Youth hunt extended 3 days
A youth-only pheasant hunt is planned for Nov. 19-21 on Yellowtail Wildlife Habitat Management Area near Lovell. During this three-day timeframe, pheasant hunting is restricted to youth only on all lands contained within the Yellowtail Wildlife Habitat Management Area north of the Shoshone River. In previous years, the youth-only hunt has bee...
Traffic at FWP’s South Central Check Stations a mixed bag
Hunters starting to see the start of the fall mule deer rut BILLINGS – Seasonally warm weather seemed to keep many south central Montana hunters home over the third weekend of the 2021 general big-game season. Depending on where one looked, numbers of hunters who stopped at Fish, Wildlife & Parks check stations and the number of animals t...
Mild Weather having negative effect in Augusta area
Mild weather continues to have a negative impact on hunting success within the greater Augusta area based on data collected at FWP’s Biological Check Station in Augusta, where overall hunting and harvest levels continue to remain slightly behind normal through the first two full weeks of the general rifle season. As of November 7, a total of...
Wyoming Wildlife Taskforce to meet Nov. 18th.
The Wyoming Wildlife Taskforce will gather for their next meeting 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 18 in Casper. The meeting will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1150 North Poplar St. The public is invited to attend and participate in-person or online through Zoom. The Taskforce will continue discussions on sustainably increasing resident opportunity...