TWIN BRIDGES – Brian Wheeler has spent a fair bit of the last six years wearing waders in the middle of the Big Hole River documenting river conditions and collecting samples of macroinvertebrates.

WISDOM, Mont. — Fishing is reopened for the upper section of the Big Hole River due to improved flows. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reopened the section that extends for 46 miles from Saginaw ...

BUTTE — The announcement Tuesday by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks struck some river watchdogs as puzzling. They wondered about FWP’s decision to reopen sections 3 and 4 of the Big Hole River to ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks have issued citations to the four individuals who drove off-road vehicles on the Big Hole River on Sept. 28. Each citation comes with a $135 fine.

HELENA, Mont. — New brown trout regulations were approved on Friday by the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission for the Big Hole and Beaverhead rivers, effective immediately. The regulations are meant ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has announced that the full fishing closure on Section 1 of the Big Hole River, which is from Saginaw Bridge on Skinner Meadows Road to the confluence with the North ...

You really can’t make this stuff up. Last week Montana’s Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologists electroshocked the Big Hole River to collect data as part of a trout “adult mortality study” ...

Editor’s note: About five years ago we wrote about the Big Hole n we bring it back with new information. Legendary for its fishing, haystacks, tough winters, and mosquitoes, southwest Montana’s Big ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is instituting new hoot-owl restrictions on rivers in the ...

BOZEMAN – Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is now in its third season of collaborative research with Montana State University ...