Dec 28 2011
This AP article is referring to Wolf Management Unit 101, which covers a good portion of Flathead and Lincoln counties. Wolf hunting is still open in Unit 110, covering the North Fork. See the FWP Wolf Hunting Guide page for more detail . . . Wildlife officials say wolf hunting will close in portions of [...]
Dec 09 2011
As expected, Montana FWP extended the wolf hunt into next year — not expected was its extension to Feb. 15 . . . Montana on Thursday extended its wolf hunt to Feb. 15 as the number of predators killed so far has fallen far short of the quota of 220 animals. The state’s Fish, Wildlife [...]
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 [...]
Dec 05 2011
From today’s Flathead Beacon . . . Wildlife officials are closing down the gray wolf season in portions of western Montana where hunters have met the state’s annual quota. Officials said hunting in Wolf Management Unit 130 was to end a half-hour after sunset on Monday because the area’s 12-wolf quota has been filled. That [...]
Nov 29 2011
From today’s Missoulian . . . Hunters across Montana had killed less than half the quota of wolves set by state biologists as of Sunday, the end of rifle season for deer and elk. The state Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks had recorded that hunters had shot 99 wolves by Sunday across 14 management [...]
Nov 26 2011
Montana’s big game season will end as scheduled, but the wolf hunt will continue. So far, hunters have taken only 96 of the allowed 220 wolves. Here’s the lead-in from an AP article discussing this . . . Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials say Montana’s 2011 general big game hunting season will end Sunday evening, [...]
Nov 22 2011
From the Daily Inter Lake . . . Heading into the final week of the big game hunting season, the deer and elk harvest picked up but still lags behind last year’s numbers while the wolf harvest is approaching quotas for a few Northwest Montana hunting districts. Northwest Montana has six wolf hunting districts with [...]
Nov 10 2011
This week, Larry talks about the ongoing wolf hunt, Becky Hardy, the former — and much appreciated — North Fork mail lady and the last bit of road maintenance before the weather closed in. Still no snow to aid hunters, but near neighbors have managed to harvest another white-tailed buck and two bull elk. Another [...]
Nov 07 2011
From today’s Missoulian . . . With more than 150 wolves shot in the Northern Rockies so far this fall, a panel of federal judges on Tuesday is scheduled to consider an emergency halt to public hunts for the animals. Congress cleared the way for the hunts last spring, when lawmakers took the unprecedented step [...]
Nov 02 2011
From an AP article posted to today’s Missoulian . . . State wildlife officials want to extend Montana’s wolf hunting season to give hunters enough time to fill a 220-wolf quota that is intended to sharply reduce the predator’s population. Ken McDonald with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said Wednesday the season would be extended [...]
