House Bill 283 gives Montana ... including mule deer, elk, moose, bighorn sheep, and mountain goat. However, this approach has sparked debate about ensuring equitable allocation of hunting ...

And he said he did not understand why it was necessary to visit other Montana ... s urban deer population acquired new urgency after a mule deer buck killed in the fall of 2023 in a hunting ...

A new Idaho rule requires nonresident shed hunters to buy a big-game license, and it's one of several states eyeing or enacting new regulations around shed hunting. Here is brief summary of those ...

Collectively speaking, whitetails are the foundation of the entire hunting industry ... focuses primarily on whitetail deer due to their popularity, but it also looks at other deer species and ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks submitted 9,066 samples for chronic wasting disease testing in 2024-2025 hunting season to ... including 202 white-tailed deer, 127 mule deer and six elk.

Missoula is currently without a management plan for its urban deer population, but recent cases of chronic wasting disease in ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks submitted 9,066 samples for chronic wasting disease during the 2024-2025 hunting season, the largest number collected in the state in a single year.

Other agency grants will support new bridges and underpasses for mule deer in Idaho ... a study co-author and a research ecologist at Montana State University’s Western Transportation Institute ...

At the same time, however, resident deer hunter numbers have declined by about 4,000 since 2014 and 2,700 fewer residents are hunting elk ... have climbed in Eastern Montana’s Regions 6 and ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was first detected in Montana in 2017 as ... collecting samples from 150 mule deer in the Hog Heaven and adjacent Irvine hunting units to try to determine the disease ...