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  • Beaver Tracking Study Taking Place In Valley And Phillips County

    Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks, For the Courier|Jun 12, 2024

    Do you live in Valley or Phillips County and have beavers on your property? Curious about what they do when water sources start to dry out in the summer? Reach out to Colleen Piper, PhD student at University of Montana, to become part of cutting-edge, prairie beaver research. Beavers play an important role in the prairie environment, with their ability to dam and store water. Beavers rely heavily on water as an escape route from predators and depend on woody plants as a food source and building material. However, there is virtually no...

  • Hunter Education In-Person Class Offered In Scobey

    Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks, For the Courier|Jun 12, 2024

    Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Hunter Education course dates have been set for Scobey, with an in-person classroom course starting at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 18, at Scobey High School. Class will run from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday with a field day on Saturday, June 22. All in-person hunter education classes are free of charge. In-person, instructor-led hunter education classroom courses are available to anyone age 10 and older and provide new hunters with a hands-on learning experience. In-person courses are led by volunteer inst...

  • Hunter Education In-Person Classes, Online Field Days Offered In Glasgow

    Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks, For the Courier|May 1, 2024

    The last two Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Hunter Education courses have been set for the Glasgow area. In person courses: An in-person classroom course will take place in the evenings May 8-9, and May 15-16 from 5:15 p.m.to 8:45 p.m., with a field day on May 19. The third and final Glasgow in-person course will be held the week of August 12-17. In-person, instructor-led hunter education classroom courses are available to anyone age 10 and older and provide new hunters with a hands-on learning experience. In-person courses are led by...

  • Region 6 Citizen Advisory Council Meeting Being Held August 29 At Sleeping Buffalo Hot Springs

    Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks

    Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Region 6 Citizen Advisory Council (CAC) will meet from 10 a.m. to approximately 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 29, at the Sleeping Buffalo Hot Springs meeting room. The public is welcome to attend. FWP will give updates on wildlife season setting for 2024-25, fisheries plans and regulations, access projects, and more. Following a working lunch for CAC members and FWP staff, there will be a short tour of local FWP sites. Each of FWP’s seven administrative regions has a volunteer CAC to help guide policies and pro...