Well, Gianforte bypassed anybody with science or fish/wildlife biological background and instead has chosen Christi Clark, Choteau Rancher, who sold out her ranch to David Letterman some time ago. That's three FWP Directors and a Commission that Gianforte appointed, none representing science...
Leadership is being systematically dismantled and replacements, if they can be found, are "yes" people chosen by the Director. Centralization is replacing people close to the field resources. Like gophers, remaining biologists don't dare stick their heads out of the holes. The Director and...
Dear Governor Gianforte:
We write with grave concern over the ongoing personnel management issues that have plagued the
Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks during your tenure. Despite promises from FWP
leadership that these concerns would be addressed and remedied, the problems have...
While the B-D recently backed off on offering 20,000 more outfitted client days, they are now proposing to grant nearly 3000 client days to outfitters by converting their temporary or even outfitters without any permit quasi-permanent "Priority Use" status without giving people a chance to...
The lead FWP Fisheries Administrator, Eileen Ryce, was recently put on "administrative leave" for undisclosed reasons. The FWP Director has been systematically removing several mid and head administrators for dubious reasons. Some inside the Dept have confirmed that the atmosphere inside the...
If you hunt, fish or otherwise recreate on the B-D, you may be interested to learn that the B-D has just released a draft Environmental Assessment offering opportunity to comment on their proposal:
Authorize a triple of outfitter/guide client days from 13,000 client days to over 33,000 client...
Right now is your best opportunity to help wildlife habitat in Montana. SB442 has been amended by sponsor Lang in the last couple of days to provide substantial funding for Habitat Montana, as was directed when the Citizens of Montana voted to legalize marijuana. Several bills attacking...
Be Prepared!! Our dogs are like family to most of us and they deserve to being cared for. Over the years I have had many dog injuries afield. Fortunately none have been fatal but....javalina and coyote fights, snares, falling over a cliff, porcupine barbs, loss of eye to cactus spine, barb...
As some of you know, baiting deer is legal in Arizona and is becoming more prevalent especially for the unique coues deer. There is now an opportunity to end this practice as the AZ game and fish commission has new rulemaking proposed for public comment that would ban the practice...now a...
On Oct 25 i completed a 50 year quest for a bighorn ram with my longbow. My first hunt was in 1961 in the Middle Fork Salmon when I was 18 yo. The next was 1981 back there and I ended up having to use my rifle after 22 days of bowhunting. Then I missed a large Colorado ram in S12 in 2005...