Bighorn sheep conservation issues will be front and center this week when the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission holds its monthly meeting in Helena.
The Commission will hear a presentation on management issues surrounding bighorns, which are struggling in the state with disease and other issues. It will also consider a bighorn sheep transplant from the Missouri River Breaks, bighorn Hunting District 482, to the south end of the Beartooth Wildlife Management Area to boost the herd there.
Commissioners will also consider additions to the Lost River and Fleecer Mountain wildlife management areas. In addition, commissioners will discuss prohibiting marmosets and tamarins as exotic species in Montana through rulemaking.
In other issues, commissioners will consider several boating issues that affect waters throughout the state. Among them are petitions for no-wake zones for Wood’s Bay and Cromwell Channel on Flathead Lake, a no-wake zone on the Madison River between Ennis Lake and the Madison Dam, and no-wake zones on Fort Peck Reservoir in the Duck Creek Bay and Bay of Park Grove areas.
The meeting will be held 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 17 at the Montana WILD Center, 2668 Broadwater Ave. in Helena.
