HELENA – Fish and Wildlife commissioners in Helena have proposed amendments to the 2026/2027 hunting regulations released by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. The proposals were announced last month.

Montana FWP seeks public input on 2026-2027 hunting season proposals until Nov. 23, including elk boundary changes and ...

As hunters prowl the woods and prairies during the big game rifle seasons, FWP has offered up its proposals for how hunting ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reports that 1,730 hunters passed through the Augusta check station through the third week ...

According to Montana outfitters and guides association director Will Israel, non-resident hunter numbers have remained fairly ...

Stunned, I picked up my phone and called my best friend and elk hunting partner, Lou Mocniak, to inform him that we’d be headed to Montana in September. Lou has a lot more elk hunting experience than ...

More sportsmen and sportswomen were afield than last year when Montana’s 2025 general rifle big-game season opened to cool and windy conditions on Oct. 25. Despite the increased participation. success ...

Yet according to a Fish, Wildlife & Parks press release, 73% of the respondents to a recent survey are “satisfied with elk management in Montana. Generally, hunters surveyed were also satisfied with ...

Montana is usually ranked as one of America’s best elk hunting states. Deer, antelope, mountain sheep, game birds and numerous other wildlife species are the annual targets of over 100,000 Montana ...

This archery season, Kale Grimsrud arrowed an unusual bull elk while hunting in the Missouri River Breaks, but the antlers will never hang on his wall. That’s because Grimsrud became entangled in an ...

Look at southcentral Montana's elk Hunting District 560 as a small snapshot of a very big problem. In fact, it's a problem that frustrates game management, hunters and even legislators across Montana ...

The best part of Northwest Montana’s archery hunting season for elk will come in two weeks when bull elk will lose much of their normal caution and instinct for survival during the peak of the annual ...