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Montana’s fall hunting season officially gets underway Monday, Aug. 15 with the opening of the special archery 900 antelope season in many Montana hunting districts. To hunt antelope with a bow and arrow in a special August archery season, sportsmen need to have drawn a special 900-series tag and bought a bow-and-arrow license. Bow-and-arrow licenses are available at all Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks offices and from license providers. To purchase a bow-and-arrow license, hunters must show that they either have held a bow and arrow license i...
Hunters planning to pursue wild turkeys in parts of western Montana this fall must apply for a special permit by July 28. The fall turkey hunting season begins Sept. 1. Prospective fall turkey hunters interested in a special permit may apply by mail using an official application; at a regional office, or online. Fall turkey hunting is by special permit in six portions of western and southwestern Montana. Other areas have a general license turkey season. For details, check the 2011 upland game bird hunting regulations on the FWP website at...
The Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks Commission has approved tentative regulations for sandhill crane hunting in Montana. Hunters interested in obtaining a special permit to hunt sandhill cranes in the Sweet Grass/Wheatland/Meagher counties portion of the Central Flyway, as well as in three areas of western Montana in the Pacific Flyway, must apply by July 28. Prospective fall crane hunters interested in these permits must apply by mail using an official application; at a regional office; or online. Online applications are available at...
Flooding along the Missouri River north and west of Bismarck has prompted the State Game and Fish Department to put an experimental deer herd reduction hunt on hold. The agency was going to start issuing up to 200 special antlerless licenses on Aug.1, but Department officials have postponed that process due to uncertainties over habitat condition and deer availability after floodwaters recede. “This experimental season was designed to reduce deer numbers on private land in a relatively small area,” Randy Kreil, Game and Fish wildlife div...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks recently completed an on-site assessment of each fishing access site and wildlife management area in Region 7. The Yellowstone and Tongue rivers have flooded several locations and resource damage has occurred to some sites. Public camping at most sites will remain unavailable until road and camping sites begin to dry and repairs are made to the damaged infrastructure. The following is the open/closed status of local fishing access sites and wildlife management areas managed by Region 7, FWP as of July 14. All...
In increasing numbers, it seems couples that have built their life around the family farm in America are facing a new dilemma as they reach retirement age. In many cases the farm is producing no more than 2-3% of its market value in an income stream. In today’s society, the children often have little or no interest in carrying on the farming tradition of Mom and Dad. The prospect of relying on this asset for significant retirement income while having to pay someone else to run the farm is not a...
Each year, when fair time approaches, Luella Dore, Sidney, recalls good times, good friends and a lot of exciting activity. Dore served as Richland County Fair culinary division superintendent for 17 years and loved every moment she spent performing her duties. “I started as superintendent in 1982,” she recalls. “They wanted someone for this position who was involved with 4-H and who knew food. My kids were in the Hay Creek Busy Bees 4-H Club and both my husband and I were heavily invol...
By Lois Kerr Most of us enjoy looking at old pictures of ourselves, our friends, and our families, particularly pictures taken years ago that remind us of another time, another place, and in some cases almost another lifetime when we consider how much we’ve changed and how drastically the world around us has altered with the passage of years. I pulled out some old photos the other day and I find I look at these pictures a lot differently now than I looked at them when they were first taken. B...
Many of us have developed an interest in a hobby in our youth that has lasted a lifetime. We have found pleasure in a certain activity for decades, and have learned an enormous amount about that particular pastime as the years pass. Ron Gerry, Sidney, can attest to this lifelong interest in a hobby as he has built model or miniature aircraft throughout his life. Since his retirement he builds and repairs miniatures over the winter then flies them for fun over the summer. “I started this hobby a...
The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services’ (DPHHS) Child and Adult Care Food Program has received an $111,034 Child Care Wellness Grant from the US Department of Agriculture. The grant will be used to improve nutrition, health and wellness in child care settings across Montana. The state will fund activities in 2012 and 2013 that promote nutrition in child care that reflect the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, to providers of child care centers and family and group day care homes. “It’s important that all of Montana’s childre...
An education event will be held at Ray Senior Center, Main Street and 2nd Ave., on Thursday, July 21 from 9:30 a.m.-12:45 p. m. Service Options For Seniors Agenda 9:30 a.m. - Karen Quick, NW Human Service Center’s Aging Services Unit, Family Caregiver Support Program, Vulnerable Adult Protective Services, Ombudsman Services; IPAT’s assistive safety devices, phone program and medication management devices; and NW Human Service Center’s services, 701-774-4685 or 1-800-231-7724. 9:45 a.m. – Wendy Peters, Mercy Home Care/Hospice, 701-774...
Book review Writing a book, particularly non-fiction, requires dedication, time, and commitment to get the job done correctly. The book Finding the Bad Inn, written by Butte native Christy Leskovar, describes in detail the amount of work required to thoroughly research a topic and the amount of work she did to produce her first book, High Plains Book Award finalist One Night in a Bad Inn, a book dealing with an incident in her family’s past. Leskovar discovered so much information while r...
