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Mule Deer Foundation Supports School Archery Program with May Raffle Recently the Lewis and Clark Chapter of the Mule Deer Foundation donated $2,596 to the Montana City School to purchase archery equipment. The Chapter is holding a spring raffle, offering a limited access hunt open to youth only, in hopes they can donate to a different school in 2011. Deadline to buy raffle tickets is May 8, 2010. More ... Mule Deer Foundation Position on Montana Initiative I-161 The MDF which has eight local Chapters in Montana has been asked for a position on Initiative I-161 which seeks to abolish outfitter-sponsored non-resident big game and deer combination licenses. MDF believes that this issue pits hunters against hunters and a ballot initiative should not be used to address this issue when other avenues exist to resolve any problems perceived or real with the existing program. MDF believes that game management, hunter access, guide and outfitter licenses should be regulated by the agencies given authority to do so by the Montana Legislature not by popular vote. More ...
MDF Donates to Mule Deer Migration Study MDF President and CEO Miles Moretti presenting a $5,000 check to Professor Paul Krausman who is the Boone and Crockett Professor of Wildlife Conservation at the University of Montana. Paul oversees graduate students who are doing research on the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Ranch and the landscapes along the eastern front of the Rocky Mountains. The money donated by MDF is for a Mule Deer Migration Study being conducted on the TRM Ranch by a graduate student from the University of Montana. Southwest Montana (Belgrade/ Bozeman) Aerial Spraying Project Intensive, long-term, integrated management is necessary to reduce noxious weed infestations. Ron Carlstrom, Agricultural Agent for the Gallatin County Extension Service, knows this as well as anyone. For the past couple of years, Carlstrom has been working with a group of private land owners who control about 115,000 acres in southwest Montana. More ... Eric Shields Easement In 2007, MDF was contacted by Eric Shields about protecting his property in central Montana from future urban development. More ... Yellowstone Wildlife Management Area (WMA) Management This project is focusing on future habitat improvements to the recently acquired (2008) Yellowstone WMA, formerly known as the Circle R Ranch, located near Pompeys Pillar (east of Billings). Noxious weed control, specifically Canada thistle, will be sprayed by the FWP using the Big Sky Chapter funds that were allocated to this project in 2008 ($1,067). More ... Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry Grant The Big Sky Chapter of the MDF has made a $400 grant to this program. More ... Men of vision and conscience are changing the fate of Central Montana “So often times, people just come here to buy a chunk of habitat,” said Tom Stivers, Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MFWP) Wildlife Biologist, Lewistown Area Resource Office. More ... Tongue River Ranch The Tongue River Ranch is over 18,000 acres, some 30 square miles, of quintessential eastern Montana habitat. More ... Beckman Wildlife Management Area: The Man, the Land, the Plan Just outside the small town of Denton, Montana lies a sportsman’s dream – over 6,500 acres of pristine mule deer habitat that is open to the public. More ... Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ Plan for the Beckman Wildlife Management Area Ten years ago, LeRoy Beckman’s Last Will and Testament established a Trust Fund to purchase winter-summer range lands primarily for deer, to be used for public hunting and recreation. More ...
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Chapter SpotlightsWestern Montana Chapter Several years ago, a hunter field check in Montana led to a license-fraud investigation that revealed a poaching ring had taken nearly100 trophy-class mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk, antelope, moose, mountain lion, and black bear using spotlights and silencers. The poachers were ordered to pay thousands of dollars in state fines, they were sentenced to prison time, and they will never again legally possess firearms or archery equipment. More ... Big Sky Chapter, Billings, Mont. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m a hunting video junky. Especially those good ol’ deer hunting videos from the ‘80’s and early 90’s with Chuck Adams, Dwight Schuh, Mike Lapinski, Larry D. Jones, John Wooters, Rod Eastman, Gordon Eastman, and Dan Fitzgerald. One of the lines from some of the Dan Fitzgerald videos (that I have memorized, by the way) that my family uses every deer season is, “If I act excited, that’s 'cuz I am excited!” I always thought that was a great line. More ... |
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