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Montana SB 425, Fort Peck Hatchery funding bill passes

by Wayne Mumford February 23, 2009

While the details are of course vague in the bills official description, one thing is now certain; funding shortfalls for the Fort Peck Walleye Hatchery are now secured by “REVENUE IN THE GENERAL LICENSE ACCOUNT OR any FEDERAL funding available to the department”. And how do you interpret that? I think I hear the cash [...]

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More bills for Montana water lovers

by Wayne Mumford February 16, 2009

This week we have two legislative bills of interest to sportsmen/women. First we have the ongoing warm water hatchery issue at Fort Peck. The demise of the four Walleye bills from Don Steinbesser, Sydney has apparently motivated Senator Keith Bales of Otter, to put new paint on the same ol’ fence so to speak. Bales [...]

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Montana Snowpack- February,14,2009

by Wayne Mumford February 14, 2009

Things were starting out pretty good but we really haven’t had a lot of precipitation since the first of the year. While the Trout Underground is mourning over going another round with the snow blower from hell we are watching our snow condense into glacial ice. No need to start worrying just yet. Even though [...]

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Warren Miller’s Yellowstone Club stratification theory

by Wayne Mumford January 4, 2009

Warren Miller, ski film’s grand poo-bah and member of the financially slippery slope elite at Montana’s Yellowstone Club theorizes that “the definition that fits rich better is ‘Economic Stratification’”. Betty Crocker could build a better argument with a wedding cake but Warren’s article actually becomes the backdrop to some very interesting comments that follow the [...]

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More on wolves and deer

by Wayne Mumford December 17, 2008

Yesterday I wrote about wolf predation on deer and made a couple extrapolations on the extent to which deer might be effecting western Montana deer populations. Turns out I was wrong on on total numbers of deer killed by hunters, that according to fish and game, was 1,532 bucks and does for 2008. I do [...]

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More wolves than you can count?

by Wayne Mumford December 16, 2008

Maybe I’m reading to much into this, but it sounds like Kent Laudon, state Fish, Wildlife and Parks wolf management specialist hasn’t got enough man power to count all the wolves running around in Montana’s Region one. That brings up the question, if he had more people and money to spend on monitoring wolf packs; [...]

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Cheaper Steaks

by Wayne Mumford December 8, 2008

It’s been awhile since I have run into something really odd or just outright weird; even scary. While working this weekend I ran into a guy that presented me with this two-headed calf stuck in the back room of his house. I guess it’s from somewhere around Browning, Montana; the metropolitan center of the Blackfeet [...]

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Wolves no longer in Hog Heaven

by Wayne Mumford December 1, 2008

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has asked the USDA to remove the remaining members of the Hog Heaven pack west of Kalispell. As recently as last week the pack was back raiding local livestock. We spotted two of the wolves Saturday near the Kila area on our way out hunting. Kila is about 10 miles [...]

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