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Where's the Wildlife? In Montana, it's everywhere. You just have to learn how to see it. Read more >>
In Fine Working Order: It takes expertise, money, innovation, and a stubborn sense of thrift to keep Montana's 50 state parks and 320 fishing access sites clean, safe and functional. Read more >>
Learning to Live with Whirling Disease: This trout killer may not be as deadly as once feared, but it's still a threat to Montana's coldwater fisheries. Read more >>
Ferrets in the Spotlight: Searching eastern Montana for North America's rarest mammal. Read more >>
Generation Axe: With Pulaskis in hand, teens and young adults with the Montana Conservation Corps work together to blaze trails, cut brush, and otherwise improve Montana's outdoors. Read more >>
Incredible Journeys: The life and travels of fur trader David Thompson, the first white to explore and map today's northwestern Montana and western Canada, were nothing short of remarkable. Read more >>
Come on in, the Water's Fine: FWP's popular Fishing Access Site Program lays out a welcome mat to the state's scenic public lakes and rivers. Read more >>
Follow That Fish! FWP's three Adopt-a-Fish Programs use the Internet to put students into the underwater world of trout, sturgeon, blue suckers, and other Montana fish species. Read more >>
$50 an Ounce: Can Montana's paddlefish survive the growing international demand for their eggs? Read more >>
Safely Down the Stream: A beginner's guide to rowing Montana's scenic rivers. Read more >>
Ye Gods! This is Restoring Trout Habitat: In Paradise Valley, spawning tributary improvements are helping conserve Rudyard Kipling's "small tigers." Read more >>
Battle on the Bighorn: Holding back water for lake recreation could doom the world-class trout fishery downstream. Read more >>
A Song for the Unsung Prairie: Essay. Read more >>
The High Price of Gas: Will fish, wildlife, and scenery bear the cost of Montana's growing natural gas development? Read more >>
A Park Next Door: Urban state parks provide outdoor recreation and scenic beauty for city dwellers thoughout Montana. Read more >>
Too Close for Comfort? As more people build homes along Montana's cherished rivers, citizens and communities debate how near the water those structures should be. Read more >>
Cream of the Crop: Wildlife management areas encompass some of Montana's finest habitat communities. Read more >>
The Golden Legacy of "Hunter Ed": Sputnik went up, McCartney met Lennon, and Montana began an education program that over the past 50 years has helped 300,000 hunters become safer and more responsible in the field. Read more >>
Moving Meat: How to pack an elk, deer, or other big game animal out of the backcountry—without killing yourself in the process. Read more >>
The Old Man and the Boy: Along with his first gun came an education in using it properly. Read more >>
Too Many Places to Hunt: Advice on figuring out where to hunt on Montana's overwhelming 30 million acres of public hunting land. Read more >>
Secret Spots: "Swear to me you won't tell anyone about this place.." Read more >>
Venison Alchemy: Slow, moist cooking can turn the toughest deer, pronghorn or elk cuts into delicious, fork-tender entrees. Read more >>
The Amazing Saga of Montana's Elk: It begins with abundance, then turns to greed and waste, then continues with one of the most remarkable wildlife management success stories in North America. And the current chaper is perhaps most interesting of all. Read more >>
Why We Hunt: Explaining the deep-seated need for game meat, outdoors companionship, and gittin' out amongst 'em. Read more >>
Follow That Bear: How biologists track grizzlies, wolverines, and other elusive wildlife through the most remote reaches of Montana. Read more >>
The Quiet Waterfowler: A shirt, a newspaper, a limit of mallards. Read more >>