Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks

The project aims to remove invasive brook trout from the Upper Shields River watershed in order to protect cutthroat trout.

United Property Owners of Montana has argued that elk are overgrazing on ranch lands, leading to grass shortages for cattle. The group wants private landowners to have more say in how Montana FWP manages elk herds. The "Keep Elk Public" coalition says this would give landowners too much power.

A spokesperson for FWP says mountain lions are common visitors to the city.

This season, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is closing down watercraft inspection stations in areas where risk of aquatic invasive species coming from out-of-state boats is considered low.

This week, testing confirmed the avian flu in three dead tom turkeys from the campus flock.

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission is requiring anglers to catch, kill and report any smallmouth bass caught on a section of the Yellowstone River and the Shields River to prevent the invasive fish from grabbing a foothold there.

States neighboring Yellowstone National Park have eased rules on hunting wolves, resulting in the most being killed in nearly a century

Yellowstone is proposing increasing its bison population to as many as 8,000 animals. But Montana is asking that the park withdraw – or at least reconsider – the options it's put forward and come up with new ones.

The state will end this season’s wolf hunt in southwest Montana once the threshold is met, despite pleas from residents and conservationists to end it early in some areas.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is asking for the public’s help in the investigation of a moose poaching incident in the Little Belt Mountains near Great Falls last week.