The Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission will hold a public open house and a meeting in Havre on Thursday and Friday, October 1 and 2. The open house, scheduled to take place from 7:30-9 p.m. in the Empire Building Room of the Great Northern Motel, 1300 1st St., is part of a Commission visit to north-central Montana that will include an official meeting of the Commission at the motel on Friday, October 2.
(Headlines - September 25, 1998)

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks received three national awards recently for its conservation education and information efforts. The awards were presented by the Association for Conservation Information, a 60-year-old association comprising information and education work groups and professionals representing state and federal natural resource agencies from across the country.
(Headlines - September 25, 1998)

If your trails club or agency needs money to create, complete, renovate or maintain a recreational trail, Fish, Wildlife & Parks has money to help get the job done! The Recreational Trails Program, one part of the 1998 Transportation Equity Act of the 21st Century (TEA 21), will provide $486,000 in federal dollars for Montana trails. FWP's Parks Division administers these federal funds with advice from the citizen State Trails Advisory Committee.
(Headlines - September 25, 1998)

In a conference call on September 1, the Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission adopted final 1998 waterfowl hunting seasons and regulations. The seasons were finalized after season framework dates were received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service late in August. The season dates adopted for the Pacific Flyway are: Ducks : October 3 through January 16 Bag Limit: 7 ducks. The only change from last year in the species limits is a reduction in the number of pintails in the bag to 1.
(Headlines - September 11, 1998)

Hunters planning to pursue deer in hunting districts 650 and 652 should note that the regulations printed in the 1998 Deer/Elk Big Game Hunting Regulations are incorrect. The regulations outlined for Hunting District 650 state "either sex, either species" during the general and archery-only seasons, but the Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission later changed the regulations such that antlerless mule deer are no longer legal game during either season.
(Headlines - September 11, 1998)

After several months' work, Montana's Private Land/Public Wildlife Advisory Council has proposed for initial public review and comment five draft recommendations that address Fish, Wildlife & Parks' Block Management (hunter access) Program and growth of the outfitting industry. The advisory council will solicit public comment on these recommendations through October 23.
(Headlines - September 11, 1998)

Fish, Wildlife & Parks officials remind upland game bird hunters headed afield this fall of important changes in regulations concerning the transportation of the birds they take. Montana's 1998 hunting season for most species of upland game birds opened on September 1. Regulations now state that hunters transporting any harvested sage grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, mountain grouse and partridge must leave one wing naturally attached to each of the birds for species identification purposes.
(Headlines - September 11, 1998)

A Fish, Wildlife & Parks official said today that all surplus licenses and permits remaining after the August drawing will be mailed the week of September 21 to hunters who applied for them and were successful in obtaining them. Barney Benkelman, chief of the Licensing Section in Helena, said that the state wildlife agency has started processing all those applications that arrived on September 2 or prior to that date.
(Headlines - September 11, 1998)

Fish, Wildlife & Parks officials will award $180,000 in federal funds to trails organizations and agencies this spring for the rehabilitation, maintenance and development of recreational trails in Montana. The National Recreational Trails Fund Act (NRTFA), a federal program administered by the Federal Highway Administration, provides the funds to states from a portion of the federal gas tax paid on the gas used by recreational vehicles used in off-road situations.
(Headlines - September 11, 1998)