As leaves fade to yellow, storefronts across Montana turn orange, adorned with huge “Welcome Hunters” banners. FWP also steps up to help people prepare for the season with its annual Hunting Forecast.

In an attempt to reduce cow elk populations in northeastern Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks has authorized a management season hunt in portions of Hunting Districts 680 and 690 starting on ...

A couple years of drought and the long winter in 2022-23 have reduced deer and elk populations in most areas of northeast ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Montana Department of Corrections will hold a drawing Thursday for special access rifle permits for cow elk hunting at the Montana Correctional Enterprise ranch in Deer Lodge.

The collars will be placed on cow elk and inform researchers about how to manage hunting regulations and habitat protection.

And many held deep concerns for the proposal to open cow elk hunting on private land for nearly six months across much of Montana.

Nicholas Cooper started hunting through the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks' Apprentice Hunter Program at 10 years old.

The hunting is good in southwest Montana, but the elk herds roaming open ranges of state land in a section of Centennial Valley southeast of Dillon aren't just good hunting — they're a source of ...

Habitat conditions in much of southeastern Montana are considerably better than in previous years, when the landscape was ...