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Trapping season for furbearing animals is well underway and Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks is asking bobcat hunters and trappers this winter to submit samples of their catches.

It’s been less than a decade since Montana wildlife managers first confirmed a fatal neurological disease in the state’s wild deer herds, and researchers are trying to understand how humans affect its spread.

Wildlife managers are publishing the results of a multi-year study of pronghorn antelope in Montana. That research is helping ranchers in Central Montana figure out how to better share the land with pronghorn.

Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks is limiting available hunting licenses for antlerless mule deer to support population numbers in Eastern Montana, where the 10-year decline of mule deer is in the double digits.

Grizzlies in Montana are being spotted further east in recent years, and wildlife managers are bringing their educational programs to some of those same areas.

State regulators say fish sampled upstream and downstream of a June train derailment showed the presence of contaminants and prompted an advisory along the river from Stillwater County to Yellowstone County

The watercraft cleaning station features a set of tools to clear vessels of aquatic interlopers.

A mountain lion has been showing up in Absarokee in south central Montana recently. Residents report seeing the animal at all hours. So far it’s not acted…