Expanded opportunities for sage grouse hunting will be offered this year in Montana as bird populations have rebounded well after two years of favorable spring weather conditions. Though the brief ...

HELENA — The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission approved a plan Thursday to close all or parts of 32 counties to sage-grouse hunting and to shorten the hunting season from two months to one.

Greater sage grouse face a variety of threats, but one of them isn't hunting, according to the most comprehensive research on sage grouse ever compiled. With urban expansion, diseases including West ...

BILLINGS, Mont. | Montana is joining North Dakota and South Dakota as states that plan to curtail sage grouse hunting in response to a continued decline in the game bird's population. Montana wildlife ...

Famous for their displays during the spring breeding season, sage grouse inhabit the steppes of the American west. Big birds, they can weigh up to 6 pounds, and they can look even bigger when they ...

BILLINGS – Citing concerns about increasing hunting pressure in eastern Montana, two amendments have been proposed to push back by two weeks the start of the upland game bird and bird dog training ...

Graphing The Montana sage grouse population data was contained in a graph based on a small group of leks used to aid the department in setting hunting seasons for the birds, but it closely matches a ...

Although hunters have said they are willing to reduce their opportunities to help sage grouse, there’s no indication that hunter harvest harms their populations. Even the Fish and Wildlife Service ...

WEST FARGO – I keep three North Dakota OUTDOORS calendars on the wall in my office. When I glance up and see a dark shaded day, I know it’s pretty significant. A season opener or application deadline ...