Tayler Scherr didn’t head into the weekend expecting to clear out her home office. But when a surprise batch of freshly hatched chicks scampered across her path the morning of July 10, everything changed. Scherr raises dozens of chickens and a handful of ducks on her ranch outside Glendive in eastern Montana. The flock includes roosters roaming freely among the hens, so chicks are bound to happen.

Congressman Troy Downing’s bill, H.R. 726, the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act of 2025, passed the House Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday, July 15. The legislation updates the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2010 to provide the Crow Tribe with greater flexibility to develop water infrastructure and keep long-overdue projects on the reservation moving forward.

By James Walling The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes Cultural Preservation Department, staffed by Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, is hosting a Carlisle Boarding School Repatriation Awareness Walk July 31 to mark the return of the remains of Christine Redstone, Peter Howe and Richard Morgan to the reservation. The walk will begin at 7 a.m. at Porcupine Creek in Nashua at the western

A popular Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks Region 6 program that allows kids and their friends or families to check out free fishing rods and tackle is in full swing again this year. In time for summer fishing, FWP staff has restocked and maintained more than 350 fishing rods in most of the 40 different location sites across Montana’s Hi-Line. The “Kids to Fish” program lets anglers check

tling camp to fully enjoy the camping experience. Sleep in. Read a book in the shade of a tree. Head to a nearby hiking trail or scenic vista. Be sure to pick the right campground for your base. A dusty facility next to a highway or a site littered with trash is no place to spend even one day. Look for campgrounds with hiking and bicycling trails, swimming and boating lakes, or fishing and kayaking

Recently released U.S. census data shows that Montana’s largest counties shifted demographically older from 2020 to 2025 as their population of residents age 65 and older grew relative to their population of children. This Montana Free Press analysis uses an aging index to compare the state’s population of older residents with its population of children. The index shows the number of Montana

Hunters who registered to be placed on the Surplus List can now check their status on MyFWP: myfwp.mt.gov/ fwpExtPortal/myDrawResult_ input.action. The list includes licenses left over from the drawing for Deer B and Elk B licenses. FWP will contact hunters who are at the top of the list via email with instructions to finalize their purchase within a specified time. Hunters must finalize the

est total of sales during June included Yellowstone at $4,558,783, Gallatin at $4,192,801, Missoula at $3,252,607 and Flathead at $2,804,575. Roosevelt County residents voted in favor of establishing 3 percent local option excise taxes for both medical and non-medical marijuana during the primary election in June 2023. Funds from the taxes are split with 50 percent going to the county, 5 percent