"Mr. Mikkelson sent text messages and photographs of the bear and of himself posing with the bear to acquaintances," a court ...

How to stall the falling of Montana's mule deer population is a question the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks is ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks game warden Perry Brown prepares to hunt for a grizzly bear that killed Forest Service law enforcement officer Brad Treat near West Glacier, Mont. on Wednesday.

“The bear just flat-out charged us,” said Tom Sommer, as he recovered in a Montana hospital on Tuesday afternoon. He said it closed the 30-foot (9-meter) distance in 3 or 4 seconds.

Early Sept. 2, a homeowner reported that a bear with a cub had broken through a kitchen window and taken a container of dog food, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said in a statement.

Wildlife officials set traps, installed wilderness cameras and scouted the woods by helicopter Thursday for the bear that attacked and killed a U.S. Forest Service employee as he rode a mountain ...

n Avoid hunting alone and avoid hunting in dense cover. n Learn to recognize signs of bear activity. n After killing a deer or elk, immediately separate the carcass from the gut pile.

BILLINGS, Mont. — On the heels of lifting protections for Yellowstone-area grizzly bears, the U.S. government is considering the same action for bruins in northwestern Montana, home to the ...

Bears have recently acquired a fondness for the good eating found around grain bins on Montana’s plains. That’s a big problem ...

"We found that the bear viewing is generating 12 times more in visitor spending than is bear hunting, and over 11 times more in direct revenue for the B.C. province," said lead researcher Martha ...