Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana could join other states in allowing hunters to take snow and Ross’s geese in the ...

MONTPELIER — A decades-long boom in the population of snow geese has led state and federal fish and wildlife agencies to expand hunting seasons in hopes of cutting their numbers in half across North ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Freezout Lake WMA lies in a glacial basin and was formally developed in the 1950s to be maintained as vital bird habitat. One species that has been flying to Freezout since time ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Bird counters estimate 92,000 snow geese pushed through Freezout Lake Wildlife Management Area near Choteau on Thursday. That's the largest single-day number of birds counted this ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Laying on cold, damp ground is usually a recipe for misery. But in this case I think it was a feature ...

Some hunters and anglers may be in a slight lull as many hunting seasons have ended or will end soon. Many of us will be determining where and how to fish according to current weather or preparing for ...

Standing on wingtips and flipping onto their backs to spill air, the flock of snow geese seemed to shatter, fall, and reform itself 30 yards lower as it bore down on the decoy spread. Surely this was ...

Although nearly a year has passed since around 3,000 snow geese perished on the Berkeley Pit, the Environmental Protection Agency has not decided on whether to fine the responsible parties, Montana ...

Anyone who spends any time perusing Utah or Idaho’s hunting regulations will be surprised when they stumble across the portion of the waterfowl proclamation that covers light geese. This is because ...

Sometime in the next few days, waves of snow geese will fill the sky across parts of North Dakota and western Minnesota as the birds race north toward their arctic breeding grounds. They're impressive ...