Montana's Comprehensive Fish & Wildlife Management
Bald EagleMontana's comprehensive conservation idea is based on two simple and well-accepted notions:
- living things affect other living things in shared habitats;
- no state, no matter how well intended, has the funding to conserve all species one by one, place by place, year by year.
Montana's Comprehensive Fish and Wildlife Conservation Strategy (CFWCS) is an exhaustive analysis of more than 600 species of birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, crayfish and mussels and the places where they live. Montana's strategy is among 56 prepared by state and territorial wildlife agencies. Each outlines actions developed by scientists, anglers and hunters, conservationists and communities working together.
Montana's strategy helps fulfill a responsibility to conserve fish and wildlife and the places they live for future generations. It also brings Montana a step closer to securing permanent federal State Wildlife Grant (SWG) funding.
SWG is the nation’s core program for keeping common species common and preventing rare species from becoming endangered. About $8.8 million has been delivered to Montana since 2000.
By showing where species are doing well and where more attention is needed, the strategy lays the groundwork for long-term and affordable conservation partnerships in Montana.
A partnership of State and Federal agencies along with P.P.L are out to learn more about Montana’s Spiny Softshell Turtle. In this week’s outdoor report, Winston Greely shows us why these turtles are worth studying. [View Video]
For Kelsey Dalton this summer is filled with traps. Kelsey and other crews throughout the state are collecting a variety of small mamals. [View Video]
Most people are familiar with the types of fish in Montana's rivers. But in this weeks Outdoor Report, Winston Greely, tells us about one you might not know about and the study that is trying to find out more. Copies of the study are available through Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. [View Video]
Researchers David Schmetterling and Mike Young were studying fish when they stumbled onto something that changed the current thinking of an entire species. [View Video]
