2025

• Lessons from the Legislature
• Community Pride
• What I bring to FWP

2024

• What are you seeing out there?
• Habitat leases are another great option for helping wildlife
• Thanks, landowners, for the water

• Mule deer distribution as important as overall numbers

2023

• Supporting Montana public stream access
• We see it, and we're on it
• 2023 Legislative summary
• Take advantage of Montana's family fishing access
• Making the tough call

2022

• Finding access solutions for elk management and elk hunting
• All in for water conservation
• More access, more handshakes
• We're engaging with the public more than ever

2021

• Honesty, integrity, decisiveness
• Same direction, different approach
• Looking back helps with looking forward
• Montana wolf management

2020

• Where the public trust concept began
• Appreciating landowners
• The tension serves us all
• On the cusp of an outdoors reawakening?
• Standing up—and sitting down—for the public trust

2019

• How we unite
• FWP's constant balancing acts
• Credibility was key to legislative success
• The Montana Model of Outdoor Engagement
• Why we have all this

2018

• CWD outbreak: we've got this covered
• A little more state, a little less federal
• What we've accomplished so far
• Educating to engage, awaken, and inspire
• Preserving Montana's unique appeal

2017

• Inclusive, transparent, fair
• All hands on deck
• Building partnerships and trust
• Getting out
• Protecting grizzlies while keeping people safe

2016

• Time to broaden our base
• Who We Are and Where We're Going
• A toast to the GYE Grizzly Recovery
• Three essential points about the new shoulder season
• Wake-up call

2015

• It's Your Call
• Still going strong after 45 years
• Mostly (but not all) good news
• Handbooks of Hunting Opportunities
• I'm thankful for FWP volunteers

2014

• Meeting face-to-face is essential for improving hunter-landowner relations
• The choice will be yours
• The public's voice in FWP affairs
• Sage-grouse season closures reflect FWP's concern about number declines
• Montana's Thanksgiving bounty

2013

• Respecting other perspectives
• New plan could help Montana maintain control
• We manage our lands to preserve Montana values
• Montana's wolf management challenges

2012

• Understanding the Bonus Point System
• Eastern Montana's great fishing
• The success of AIS vigilance
• Increasing the wolf harvest
• Four years later

2011

• Why we acquired more habitat and public access
• Off to a wild start
• A lively legislative session
• Montana's hunting season never really ends
• A booming bottom line

2010

• Let's hear it
• Into the heart of it
• Best of both worlds
• Giving kids a jump start on hunting
• Pulling out all the stops

2009

• A brief introduction
• Bridge access bill is worth celebrating
• Good news from the 2009 legislative session
• Building relationships
• Hunt represents successful wolf conservation

2008

• A sensible way to solve the bridge access and fencing problems
• Let's keep the Fort Peck Hatchery open year-round
• It Takes a Department
• Concerns About Brucellosis in Montana
• Thank you, Mr. Lincoln

2007

• No Child Left Inside
• Fish the Prairie
• The Session
• Build, but not rest
• A great tradition continues

2025

• Give me a lift?
• We made it
• A swimming lesson

2024

• The ice man laugheth
• Paying attention
• Seeing the open doors
• Spray, don't slay

2023

• Thanks for giving
• A working-lands ignoramus
• Whatever floats your kayak
• Thanks, Moms!
• The Freeze Baby

2022

• On the Cutting Edge
• Carping about fishing
• Secret spots
• The dog days of autumn

2021

• Howdy, new neighbors!
• Wonders under water
• Leave no trace
• Restraint

2020

• Looking down
• Reassurance
• I've got this
• A Handbook of Hunting Opportunities
• Respect

2019

• Indispensable
• Getting stoked on conservation
• Their pain, and mine
• Neighborly relations
• Members only

2018

• Building confidence with science
• Silver lining
• Saving the little bolts
• Why on the wall?
• Montana millionaires

2025

• Io Moth
• Rocky Mountain wood tick
• Rufous hummingbird

2024

• Black bear
• Cuckoo wasp
• Mourning Dove
• Red fox

2023

• Coyote
• Meadow vole
• Carolina grasshopper
• White-lined sphinx moth
• Shortnose Gar

2022

• Lewis's Woodpecker
• Northern pocket gopher
• Black-backed woodpecker
• Dark-eyed junco

2021

• Pygmy nuthatch
• Tomentose burying beetle
• Yellow-bellied marmot
• Rough-legged Hawk

2020

• Black Cottonwood
• American Avocet
• Ring-billed Gull
• Trout-Perch
• Snow Bunting

2019

• Douglas fir
• Grasshopper sparrow
• Sturgeon chub
• American coot
• Mottled sculpin

2018

• Red crossbill
• Bigmouth buffalo
• Giant water bug
• Red squirrel
• Pine grosbeak

2017

• Richardson's ground squirrel
• Brook stickleback
• Common nighthawk
• American mink
• Great gray owl

2016

• Marbled godwit
• Trillium
• Northern goshawk
• Antelope bitterbrush
• Fisher

2015

• American crow
• American white pelican
• Channel catfish
• Engelmann spruce
• Least weasel

2014

• Hoary bat
• Western Painted Turtle
• Pinedrops
• Western Red Cedar
• Black-Capped Chickadee

2013

• Smooth green snake
• Belted kingfisher
• Cattail
• Bohemian Waxwing

2012

• Spring Beauty
• Western tanager
• Freshwater sponges
• Milksnake
• Snow bunting

2011

• Northern River Otter
• Turkey vulture
• Big sagebrush
• American Badger
• Northern Pygmy-Owl

2010

• Whitebark Pine
• Mayflies
• Greater Short-horned Lizard
• Brown Trout
• White-tailed Jackrabbit

2009

• Western (Boreal) Toad
• Iowa Darter
• Tiger Beetle
• Hungarian (Gray) Partridge
• Gray-Crowned Rosy-Finch

2008

• Northern Flicker
• Burbot
• Northern Bluet Damselfly
• Quaking Aspen
• Black-tailed Prairie Dog

2007

• Rubber Boa
• Mountain Whitefish
• American Pika
• Bushy-tailed Woodrat
• Great Gray Owl

2006

• Harlequin Duck
• Walleye
• Thick-billed Longspur
• Spruce (Franklin's) Grouse
• Black-billed Magpie

2005

• North American Beaver
• Gray Jay
• Franklin's Gull
• Tamarack
• Snowshoe Hare

2004

• Muskrat
• Moose
• Golden-Mantled Ground Squirrel
• Great Horned Owl
• Wolverine

2003

• Ponderosa Pine
• Clark's Nutcracker
• Long-toed Salamander
• American Dipper
• White-tailed Ptarmigan

2002

• Sandhill Crane
• Yellow-headed Blackbird
• Red-breasted Nuthatch
• Marten
• Common Goldeneye

2024

• Emerald ash borer and "Lake Winterkill"
• American bullfrog and "Stream Channelization"
• Ventenata and "Habitat fragmentation"
• Yellow flag iris and "Otolith Aging"

2023

• Feral hogs and "Heritage resources"
• Rusty crayfish and "Population modeling"
• Leafy spurge and "Hybridization"
• Invasive mussels and "Instream flow"
• Dalmatian toadflax and "Connectivity"

2022

• Eurasian watermilfoil and "Cumulative Impacts"
• Spotted Knapweed and "Management Plans"
• Common burdock and "Carrying capacity"
• Flowering rush and "Year class"

2021

• Cheatgrass and "Perched Culvert"
• New Zealand Mudsnail and "Recruitment"
• Houndstongue and "Conifer Expansion"

First in Series

Second in Series -- A Different Angle on the Expedition

Third in Series -- The True Utmost Reaches of the Missouri

Fourth in Series -- The Greatest Hunting Trip Ever?

Fifth in Series -- The Misadventures

Sixth in Series -- The Corps of Botanical Discovery

Last in Series -- Still Scenes of Visionary Enchantment