{"id":120664,"date":"2026-02-26T05:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/02\/26\/new-hunting-license-year-starts-march-1\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:14:11","modified_gmt":"2029-01-11T05:14:11","slug":"new-hunting-license-year-starts-march-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/02\/26\/new-hunting-license-year-starts-march-1\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"New Hunting License Year Starts March 1"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Year\u2019s Day for many outdoor recreationists in Montana is March 1. This is the day everyone can buy their 2026 hunting and fishing  licenses and apply for special draw licenses and permits.<br \/>\n\t  It\u2019s also the day when recreationists  need to renew their conservation license to support the state lands they use.<br \/>\n\t  This year, hunters and anglers  will see quite a few changes that are worth paying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120824,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120664\/revisions\/120824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120664"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=120664"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=120664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}