U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

A coalition of environmental groups plan to sue over an impending decision to list pygmy rabbits under the Endangered Species Act.

A federal judge in Montana Tuesday ordered the US Fish and Wildlife Service to reevaluate the protected status of Arctic Grayling in the Big Hole River. But, the service is ordered not to consider landowner-led, voluntary conservation efforts.

Two grizzly bears were trucked from northwest Montana to the Yellowstone ecosystem this week. The transfer is part of a multi-state effort to remove grizzlies from the Endangered Species list.

Federal wildlife officials will delay an anticipated decision on the protected status of grizzly bears until next year.

State and Federal wildlife officials are making plans to kill lake trout in the Swan Lake drainage. The agencies say core populations of native bull trout are at risk of extinction in coming decades due to competition and predation by nonnative lake trout.

The federal government is in the process of updating its policies regarding management of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Montana ranchers are worried the new rule could prohibit cattle grazing on refuge lands.

Highway 93 is a major thoroughfare for the region that runs right through the heart of the Flathead Reservation. One section of the road is the deadliest strip of highway for grizzly bears anywhere in northwest Montana.

Hunting conservation groups requesting to intervene in ongoing litigation over relisting wolves.

A female grizzly bear with a new cub was shot and killed by an antler hunter near Wolf Creek in Lewis and Clark County late last month, Montana FWP says.

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