David Dean Winn is facing one felony charge and other offenses from a chase that occurred in Roosevelt County on May 21. He is scheduled to make his initial appearance in district court on Wednesday, June 14. Bail was set at $100,000. The felony charge is for criminal endangerment. If convicted of the offense, Winn faces a maximum sentence of 10 years, a $50,000 fine or both. Misdemeanor

The Fort Union Rendezvous is set for June 15-18. The National Parks Service is hosting a 19th Century Fur Trade Fair that includes a variety of period arts, crafts and music. Members of the public are invited to come and participate in the upper Missouri fur trade fair reenactment at one of the West’s most imposing historic sites. The annual gathering is the site’s largest event. Fort Union

A federal judge has ruled that four Missouri hunters did not trespass when they corner crossed and passed through the airspace above Fred Eshelman’s Elk Mountain Ranch. Chief U.S. District Judge Scott Skavdahl granted the hunters’ request to dismiss most of Eshelman’s lawsuit that claimed the men trespassed and caused more than $7 million in damages. The men corner-crossed in 2020 and 2021

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will meet June 8 in Helena at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks headquarters. The meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. The meeting will be streamed live on the FWP website and YouTube. The public can participate in person or via Zoom. The commission will make final decisions on the following items: •Elk Hunting Access Agreements for 2023 •Private

After 21 years at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Hank Worsech is retiring as director, with deputy director for the agency Dustin Temple set to succeed him. According to a release from Gov. Greg Gianforte’s Office on Friday, June 2, the governor appointed Worsech director of the department January of 2021 and he’s retiring following medical leave, which started in February. “It’s

Like Wyoming, Montana has vast acreages of public land effectively off-limits to members of the recreating public. OnX estimates the public is unable to access more than 871,000 acres of public land due to checkerboard ownership patterns. Most of that acreage is administered by federal agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Also like Wyoming, Montana’s

The Milk River Gospel Jamboree will celebrate its 20th anniversary on June 2325 with award-winning singers, musicians and groups from the U.S. and Canada at Malta High School. The jamboree will begin Friday with a meal served from 5 to 5:45 p.m., concert 6-9 p.m. Activities resume Saturday 1-5 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. with a meal served in-between and continue on Sunday with lunch from 11:30 a.m. to

The American Buffalo, Ken Burns’ upcoming documentary, took four years to produce, but the idea behind it can be traced back more than 30 years. Burns recently found an earlier version of a proposal for a film about bison in his files. It had been written in the mid-1990s and in discussion since the late 1980s. The legendary filmmaker, known for his sweeping, multi-part historical documentaries,