Brett French

Fly fishing and archery elk hunting have a lot in common, besides luring their disciples into some incredibly beautiful country.

At the Interagency Bison Management Plan meeting, held on Oct. 29 in Missoula, the debate over Yellowstone National Park's winter bison removal plan is complicated by varying agendas.

The FWP study was launched in 2013 as moose strongholds, like the state of Minnesota, were seeing populations of the big, odd-looking ungulates crash.

At the Interagency Bison Management Plan meeting, held on Oct. 29 in Missoula, the debate over Yellowstone National Park's winter bison removal plan is complicated by varying agendas.

Lisa Baril’s “The Age of Melt: What Glaciers, Ice Mummies, and Ancient Artifacts Teach Us about Climate, Culture, and a Future Without Ice” was published in September by Timber Press.

The FWP study was launched in 2013 as moose strongholds, like the state of Minnesota, were seeing populations of the big, odd-looking ungulates crash.

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal illness that affects members of the deer family, including elk, moose, mule deer, and white-tailed deer.

“The primary driver of decreased elk browsing pressure and increased aspen tree regeneration was a reduction in elk population density, a ‘density-mediated trophic cascade,' caused by predation from multiple predators — wolves, bears, cougars and hunters,” said Dan Macnulty, a co-author of the study and Utah State University wildlife ecologist.

The short season is meant to reduce the chance of grizzly bears, protected as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, from being caught. The judicially designated recovery zone includes all of FWP regions 1, 2 and 3, along with the western portions of regions 4 and 5.

FWP Director Dustin Temple explains the FWP proposal to the Fish and Wildlife Commission on trapping regulations for 2024/2025.