Brett French Lee Newspapers Apr 10, 2025 Apr 10, 2025 In 1980, a band of bighorn sheep were captured from the Sun River area along the Rocky Mountain Front and moved to a foreign landscape to the east ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Talk about a short hunting season: Two days after the backcountry bighorn sheep season opened ...

Amy Quinlivan, Clark Fork Valley Press & Mineral Independent, Plains, Mont. Mar. 12—Hunting in Montana isn't just limited to the season of fall. It's an ingrained culture, a way of life, a primal ...

BILLINGS – In 1980, a band of bighorn sheep was captured from the Sun River area along the Rocky Mountain Front and moved to a foreign landscape to the east, north of Montana’s massive Fort Peck ...

HELENA, Mont.– The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will hold an emergency public meeting on Monday, March 31, to discuss potentially closing bighorn sheep hunting in hunting district 622 for 2025 ...

Erin Weger’s most memorable hunting experience was a total accident. Her buddy had to run into town that morning, so she went at it alone thinking she'd likely just be out for a nature walk. Instead, ...

Bighorn sheep tags are coveted and difficult to draw. In 2013, 1,675 residents applied for six either-sex sheep tags in HD 622. The odds of drawing the tag were less than 1 percent. Linda Heiken, 52, ...

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission on Monday voted down a conservation group’s petition to revise the state’s bighorn sheep management plan and eliminate hunting of a single ram in a small herd ...

The following is a press release from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks: HELENA, Mont. – Test results from two rams from bighorn sheep hunting district 622 have tested positive for a microorganism that ...