The mother/daughter team of Carly and Ayla Rush earned top honors at the Fort Peck Women’s Walleye Tournament on Saturday, July 16. The Wolf Point team took first with a total of 30.24 pounds. Alicia Morehouse and Elaine Jatko Lund placed a close second with 29.92 pounds. Tracy Harada and Kiyo Ruhd earned third place at 18.98 pounds. Placing fourth at 15.34 pounds were Cindy Sundheim

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is seeking public input on revisions to the statewide Elk Management Plan last adopted in 2005. FWP began work on the revised plan in 2020, when a citizen’s group was convened to develop guiding principles for the new plan. FWP is seeking input on the existing elk population objectives and local elk management challenges that should be considered in the revision.

U.S. Senators Jon Tester and Steve Daines today urged the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to hold a hearing on their St. Mary’s Reinvestment Act, which will provide critical resources to north-central Montana and make rehabilitating the St. Mary’s Diversion Dam more affordable. In a letter to ENR Chair Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Ranking Member John Barrasso (R-Wyo.),

Roy and Jodi Neufeld, Marty and Angie Smith, Brandon and Jen Reddig and Bill and Trisha Reddig hosted a 50th anniversary celebration for their parents, Dean and Julie Reddig, and uncle and aunt, Les and Judy Toews on June 29 at the Smith’s home. Dean and Julie were married June 24, 1972, and Les and Judy married Sept. 9, 1972, at the Lustre EMB Church. Grandchildren and great-grandchildren

It was a wild paddlefish season, but not so much for harvest rates as for weird weather and river flows. The 2022 Yellow Tag paddlefish season on the Yellowstone and lower Missouri rivers ended June 30 with a final estimated harvest of 769 fish. It was an interesting season that started with minimal river flows and poor expectations that snowpack would change the situation. However, mountain

For the next three weeks, students ages 9-18 have the opportunity to take free classes on nutrition, cooking and gardening at Fort Peck Community College’s Dumont campus in Wolf Point. The next class begins Thursday, July 21, and will cover growing tomatoes in containers and making them into fresh salsa. There will be two more classes on Thursday, July 28 and Thursday, Aug. 4. All classes