Much of Montana has both black and grizzly bears, with grizzlies showing up further and further east each year. Recently, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks confirmed a grizzly bear sighting in the Bear Paw Mountains east of Big Sandy. “Though not common, grizzly bear sightings around central Montana have increased over the years,” said FWP Region 6 Supervisor Drew Henry. “This emphasizes

Monday, May 6, Governor Greg Gianforte encouraged Montana students in grades 3 to 12 to participate in America’s Field Trip, a nationwide scholastic contest designed to engage youth in commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. “Montanans are proud to be American, and it is important for us to instill this patriotic spirit in the next generation,”

Applications are due June 1 for Montana licenses to hunt sandhill cranes and swans this coming fall. Special sandhill crane hunting districts that require applications for licenses are mostly in the Pacific Flyway of western Montana. Swan hunters may apply for either the Pacific Flyway or Central Flyway, but not both. Hunters may online at ols.fwp.mt.gov or over the counter at any FWP regional

During the Fort Peck Tribal Executive Board’s full meeting April 22 in Poplar, a cemetery plan for Poplar was approved as was a gaming premises license for Buck Skin Bucks Casino located at Poplar’s Fort Peck Video. The board agreed to sponsor the Fort Peck Sioux singers with $1,000 to attend the G.O.N. powwow as invited drum representing the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes. The board

The Justice Department joined its partners across the federal government, as well as people throughout American Indian and Alaska Native communities, in recognizing May 5 as National Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day. In recognition of MMIP Awareness Day, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland highlighted ongoing efforts to tackle the MMIP and human trafficking crises in American

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Missouri River Water Management Division started its weekly virtual meetings on Wednesday, April 24, to keep residents updated on the status of Fort Peck test flows. The call attracted more than 60 participants. The public can access the meetings, which start at noon (mountain time) on Wednesdays at https://usace1.webex.com/usace1/j. php?MTID=ma8b176ff7ce553ae5f1f-645f3a8629a4.

Fort Peck Tribal adult and juvenile corrections facilities have been criticized by a Bureau of Indian Affairs report, according to the Billings Gazette, in which untrained corrections officers, incomplete employee background checks and no procedures for inmate deaths were among the findings. According an investigation by the Gazette, area residents criticized the jail after 25-year-old Anthony