At its Feb. 4 meeting, the Fish and Wildlife Commission identified a new season structure for mountain lions and asked Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to solicit public comment on specifics of the proposal. The proposal is out for comment through March 18. This season structure under consideration would allocate harvest between unlimited licenses that will end when a quota is reached and special

Average gasoline prices in Montana are unchanged in the last week, averaging $4.01/g on Monday, March 14, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 615 stations in Montana. Prices in Montana are 60.2 cents per gallon higher than a month ago and stand $1.37/g higher than a year ago. According to GasBuddy price reports, the cheapest station in Montana was priced at $3.73/g on Sunday while the most expensive

New regulation booklets for upland gamebirds are available online at fwp. mt.gov/hunt/regulations. Printed booklets will be available later this month. This year, the booklets include turkey hunting regulations. A turkey is considered an upland gamebird by Montana statute. Also new in the 2022 upland gamebird regulations: Turkey hunting in Region 4 has changed to a general license spring

Bank and Browning) and Pondera County (Conrad) have been moved into the underpopulated District 1. State attorneys had submitted a proposal that produced districts satisfying the 10% deviation criteria by moving only three counties: Deer Lodge, Glacier and Musselshell. The newly ordered map is similar, except the judges chose to also shift Pondera County in order to bring the deviation to

U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., voted against FY22 on Wednesday, March 9. The House of Representatives voted on and passed the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 2471, Consolidated Appropriations Act. Rosendale said, this $1.5 Trillion spending package for the remainder of fiscal year 2022 is fiscally irresponsible and fails to address the many crises facing our nation.

U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., and 15 of his colleagues, led by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), filed a lawsuit against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The lawsuit, Massie et al v. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, seeks to end the CDC’s illegal mask mandate for individuals traveling on commercial airlines. The lawsuit takes on additional significance in the face

During fiscal year 2020 (July 1-June 30), the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division shipped out 935,539 cases of liquor. Historically, Montana liquor sales tend to increase approximately 3 percent per year. This means that normally ABCD would have expected to ship approximately 963,605 cases of liquor in fiscal year 2021. However, fiscal year 2021 was far from normal. During this last year, ABCD