– Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is looking for public comment on a proposal to replace an aging travel trailer at Chief Plenty Coups State Park south of Billings with a permanent structure. An AmeriCorps volunteer who works at the state park now lives in an aging travel trailer on the site. Repairs to the trailer now cost more than the ...
Do You want to be a Wyoming Game Warden?
Do you look good in red? The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is offering an exam online for individuals interested in joining the ranks of the storied Wyoming game warden. The deadline to apply for the exam is April 5. Game and Fish is hiring for up to 12 warden positions in locations around the state. “The Wyoming game warden is a job un...
MT Hunting & Fishing License Year Begins March 1
Feb 17, 2021 4:19 PM The new license year opens March 1, which means that is the day you can buy your 2021 hunting and fishing licenses and begin applying for permits and special licenses. The deadline to apply for deer and elk permits is April 1. Applications for most species – deer, elk, antelope, deer B, elk B, antelope B, moo...
MT FWP wants Public Comment on Water Birch FAS Construction
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is looking for public comment on a proposal to replace five camp spots that were undercut by Rock Creek at the Water Birch fishing access site south of Roberts. The deadline for public comment is noon March 18, 2021. During the past several years, Rock Creek has cut into the fishing access site, destroyin...
FWP Internships available to College Students
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has offered internships to college students for 30 years. Opportunities in 2021 can be found on our FWP website. Click on Internships. College students are given an opportunity to gain practical experience in their field of study by serving as interns for the agency. Students take what they learn in th...
Alpine’s Sam Gertsch is Wyoming’s Ultimate Angler
Some October days in Wyoming can feel more like full-on winter than fall. And it was one of those days, with a cold steel wind blowing across the water of Soda Lake north of Pinedale. Sam Gertsch of Alpine admits he had thought twice about whether he really wanted to be out in it that day, but he decided to go for it. Turns out he was awfully ...
Prescribed burn on Trail lake Meadow in Wyoming
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department, in coordination with the Shoshone National Forest, will be conducting a prescribed burn on Trail Lake Meadow in the Torrey Valley. Trail Lake Meadow is within the Whiskey Basin Wildlife Habitat Management Area (WHMA) south of Dubois. The burn will take place in the late winter or early spring of 2021, and ...
Off road access to Lake Cooney causing damage
– Ice fishermen who access Cooney Reservoir with automobiles, ATVs or snowmobiles are reminded that they must drive onto and off of the ice only from boat ramps. Those who drive directly from campgrounds, parking areas and roadways onto the ice are causing damage to park resources. Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks prohibits off-road travel...
Stretch of Yellowstone River closed due to threat of a bridge collapse
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks closed a 200-yard stretch of the Yellowstone River east of Reed Point Monday because an old highway bridge is in imminent danger of collapsing into the water. The Montana Department of Transportation informed FWP this week that the Twin Bridges Road bridge over the Yellowstone River is subject to imminent failu...
Landowners and Hunters Benefit from 25 years of FWP’S Block Mgmt. Program
2020 marked the 25th anniversary of Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Block Management Program. This popular access program started locally across Montana in the mid-1980s. However, through HB195 in the 1995 Legislative Session, it created the program as it’s formally known today starting with the 1996 hunting season. Block Management provides...