Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is again accepting applications for its Habitat Conservation Lease Program. A habitat conservation lease is a voluntary, incentive- based agreement between FWP and private landowners in which the landowner commits to specific land management practices that protect priority wildlife habitat. In turn, FWP pays landowners a one-time per-acre fee for the lease.

In a court filing that chronicles how it stores data and protects minors, TikTok has responded to Montana’s firstof- its-kind ban on the social media app, which was signed into law earlier this month by Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte. TikTok Inc., is suing the State of Montana to strike the recently passed law, alleging a number of constitutional violations and maintaining that Montana Attorney

In his continued push to secure the southern border and combat illicit fentanyl trafficking into the United States, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., has led the bipartisan Combating Cartels on Social Media Act to target cartels’ use of social media and online platforms to recruit smugglers. Tester’s bipartisan bill is co-sponsored by Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ), Senator James Lankford (R-OK),