Jan 31 2012
The wolf hunt is officially over for the North Fork and environs. Here is the press release . . . The hunting of all wolves in Montana Wolf Management Unit 110 which includes portions of Lincoln and Flathead Counties, in northwestern Montana, will close Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at one half-hour after sunset. The order [...]
Dec 06 2011
From the Daily Inter Lake . . . Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has closed wolf hunting in a district covering areas east of Kalispell and in the Swan Valley because the allotted quota was recently met. The quota for District 130 was 12 wolves, and over the weekend the state announced that the quota [...]
Oct 29 2011
October, as usual, is a big month for bear-human conflict . . . The busy season for bear management is well under way in Northwest Montana. Over the past two weeks, Fish, Wildlife and Parks bear conflict biologists have captured and relocated eight grizzly bears from the northeast portion of the Flathead Valley, according to [...]
Sep 17 2011
There’s no explicit North Fork connection, here, but North Forkers tend to be grizzly aficionados and this is a good griz story . . . Could it be webbed claws? Or maybe an ancient connection to a Labrador bloodline? In any case, a young grizzly bear has demonstrated Olympian swimming skills on Flathead Lake, proved [...]
Jul 23 2011
From yesterday’s Missoulian . . . Carolyn Sime, a pioneer in wolf management in Montana, is leaving her job with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks in order to pursue a law degree. “After 10 years of late-night phone calls, ranch meetings and 20 years of game check stations, I’m ready to try something new,” Sime [...]
Jul 14 2011
From an AP article posted in today’s Flathead Beacon . . . Hunters will be able to shoot as many as 220 gray wolves in Montana this fall under rules adopted Thursday by state wildlife commissioners. The hunt is scheduled to begin in early September and is expected to reduce the predator’s Montana population by [...]
Jun 16 2011
From today’s Daily Inter Lake . . . An ongoing grizzly bear population trend study got off to a good start this year with three bears being captured and fitted with radio collars in the North Fork Flathead drainage. But that’s just the start of trapping efforts that will carry on for the next few [...]
Jun 06 2011
Oops! Missed this item posted last Friday to the Hungry Horse News site . . . Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are investigating the wounding of a grizzly bear near the intersection of the Red Meadow Creek Road and the North Fork Road north of Polebridge. FWP wardens [...]
May 04 2011
Here’s a good article from today’s Missoulian on the imminent delisting of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies . . . Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolves officially return to state control Thursday, when their removal from Endangered Species Act protection is published in the Federal Register. That means Montana and Idaho hunters will be back [...]
May 04 2011
From today’s Missoulian . . . Montana wildlife officials moved quickly to get fall hunting plans in place after the federal government returned the gray wolf to state management on Wednesday. “We’ll propose tentative plans to the commission on May 12,” Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Ron Aasheim said shortly after Interior Secretary Ken [...]
