Nov 02 2011
Larry puts his feet up and talks about this October on the North Fork . . . Nearly everyone has already reported a slow start to the general hunting season, and that has been the case among North Fork residents, too. Neighbor Lynn Ogle shot a nice white-tailed buck this week, and since I was [...]
Nov 18 2010
From today’s Daily Inter Lake . . . The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the recent shooting of two wolves on the Flathead National Forest. The carcasses were found on the same day, Nov. 6, in different locations on the forest. One was found along Coal Creek Road in the North Fork Flathead [...]
Nov 12 2009
This week’s Hungry Horse News provides some good background concerning wolf hunt quotas on the North Fork . . . The recent poaching of three wolves up the North Fork didn’t count toward the hunting quota, but it has raised concerns from a conservation group about the way wolves are being managed. The wolf quota [...]
Nov 11 2009
Today’s Missoulian has an article on the increased number of poachers this year who seem to be killing game just to get a little ego boost . . . The poacher who pulled the trigger on Maximus — one of Montana’s greatest grizzlies — left the big bear to waste. So did the poacher who [...]
Nov 09 2009
The Missoulian, in the person of Michael Jamison (of course), has more detail on the closure of this season’s wolf hunt on the North Fork . . . When a hunter pulled the trigger Monday morning with a wolf in his crosshairs, the bullet killed the big-game season on canis lupus for the region west [...]
Nov 01 2009
Today’s online edition of the Missoulian has an article explaining why the recent wolf poaching incidents on the North Fork did not affect the local wolf hunt quota . . . When a Columbia Falls man pleaded guilty last week to poaching two wolves just outside Glacier National Park, many thought the area’s wolf-hunting quota [...]
Oct 29 2009
This article from today’s Hungry Horse News offers a little more information about the October 9th wolf poaching incident near Whale Creek . . . A Columbia Falls man has pleaded guilty to poaching two wolves near Whale Creek up the North Fork. Randy Houk, whose age wasn’t released, paid fines totaling $1,135. Fish, Wildlife [...]
Oct 28 2009
From yesterday’s Flathead Beacon . . . Wildlife officials say a Columbia Falls man has been cited for killing two wolves during a closed season in northwestern Montana. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wardens say the wolves were shot and left along Whale Creek Road in the North Fork Flathead drainage on Oct. 9. Read [...]
Oct 17 2008
According to an AP article posted yesterday in the online edition of the Great Falls Tribune, wildlife officials are seeking information on the death of a male grizzly bear south of Polebridge. It was discovered in early October in the Coal Creek drainage.
