Hunting and Wildlife in Montana

Montana has by far the highest percentage of citizens buying hunting licenses of any state. We treasure our wildlife, our wildlife resources and our hunting way of life in Montana. Montana can better determine how to protect, manage and use its wildlife resource than distant federal employees in D.C. or wealthy environmental groups in California.

Hunting in Montana: Roy supports hunting in Montana, as our cultural heritage, our most pervasive state pastime, and as an important industry that brings huge amounts of money to Montana businesses and to the state treasury for wildlife management.

Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks: Roy will appoint veteran hunters to the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission, not non-hunting attorneys, so the interests of hunters are truly represented there. Roy will make sure that the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks acts in the best interests of Montana hunters, and not as a subset of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Wolves: Wolves are extremely efficient predators and reproducers. Sportsmen and women invested millions of dollars selflessly for over a century to foster our herds of big game animals, both for hunting and as a savings account of wildlife for our children and grandchildren. This savings account should not be “fed to the wolves” instead of the hunters who paid for it. Montana must take every step possible to get control of the wolf population.

Access to public lands: Every year it becomes more difficult for the average Montana hunter to access public lands, and to get harvested game animals off public lands. This is because of a myriad of access restrictions grown every year by transient federal land managers who don't understand our history and culture in Montana. Roy will direct the personnel of all related state agencies to work with the managers of federal public lands to roll back existing restrictions and prevent new restrictions that make hunting access to public lands more difficult.