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Committee hears bill letting FWP issue second lion tag in specific areas, cleans up Tendoy sheep provision
Summary
House Bill 71 would let the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission authorize a second mountain-lion tag in areas where harvest quotas or objectives are unmet and would repeal an obsolete Tendoy sheep tissue-sampling requirement; supporters and opponents debated potential effects on populations and commercialization of wildlife.
Helena — The House Fish, Wildlife and Parks Committee on Wednesday heard House Bill 71, which would allow the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission to authorize an additional mountain-lion tag in certain areas where harvest prescriptions have not met objectives and would remove an obsolete sheep-monitoring requirement for the Tendoy Mountains.
Representative Shannon Maness, sponsor of HB 71, told the committee the lion-change provision is not a statewide quota change but rather a tool for FWP and the commission “to be able to issue some extra tags for certain areas so we can begin to meet some quotas that are not being met on the mountain lion harvest.” Maness said the Tendoy language on page 2 is a clean-up…
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