
Montana bison harvest at 70
BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana wildlife officials say 70 bison have been shot by hunters so far this year. The Billings Gazette reported Thursday that 59 of those bison were killed on the west side near
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BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana wildlife officials say 70 bison have been shot by hunters so far this year. The Billings Gazette reported Thursday that 59 of those bison were killed on the west side near

Hunting is part of the states’ grizzly management strategy. But details have yet to be worked out and state officials have consistently said any hunts would be limited to a small number of bears so

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Yellowstone National Park biologists say bison numbers are down from last year after its largest cull in nearly a decade. Parks spokesman Jonathan Shafer said in an email that biologists’ surveys counted

In 2016, Wyoming recorded 223 cases of conflicts between grizzly bears and humans outside Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks and the Wind River Indian Reservation. It was by far the highest number of conflicts

HELENA, Mont. — Three more conservation groups are suing to restore federal protections to grizzly bears living in and around Yellowstone National Park. The complaint filed Wednesday by Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Western Watersheds

Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are planning limited public hunting of the region’s roughly 700 bears, although no hunts are expected this year.

A stretch of the Gibbon River and its headwater lakes are being poisoned so Yellowstone National Park can remove “exotic” fish and create a refuge for west slope cutthroat trout and river-running grayling.

Order reverses 2014 re-classification by U.S. wildlife officials for 40-50 bears of the Cabinet-Yaak bear population under the federal Endangered Species Act.

The decision comes after months of discussion with state and federal livestock officials after a group of bison that park officials wanted to quarantine at the Fort Peck Indian Reservation could not be moved in
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