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Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks has put a hit out on introduced walleye in Swan Lake.
At Thursday’s FWP commission meeting, commissioners unanimously approved a regulation requiring anglers to kill any walleye they catch in Swan Lake, report the incident and then turn the carcass in to FWP for analysis.
Read MoreResidents of the Blackfoot and Swan valleys want to designate more wilderness around them, but they say it would be part of a bigger plan to preserve their lands and rural way of life.
On Wednesday night, more than 100 people packed into the Missoula Public Library conference room to learn about a renewed push by the Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Project to add 83,000 acres of wilderness to the Bob Marshall, Scapegoat and Mission Mountain wildernesses.
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