Montana
FWP accepting proposals for 2025 hunting license auctions
HELENA, Mont. — Montana, Fish Wildlife and Parks is seeking proposals for 2025 hunting license auctions.
Licenses available for auction include bighorn sheep and Shiras moose. Licenses available for auction or lottery include mule deer, elk and mountain goat.
Proposals are due by July 15, and can be submitted here, or hand delivered to the FWP Licensing Bureau at 1420 E. 6th Ave. in Helena.
Applications can also be emailed to payton.schild@mt.gov. The auction and lottery meeting is scheduled for Aug. 16.
Montana FWP sent out the following:
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ Licensing Bureau is soliciting proposals from conservation organizations that are interested in conducting a competitive auction or lottery for some 2025 licenses.
Licenses available for auction include bighorn sheep and Shiras moose. Licenses available for auction or lottery include mule deer, elk and mountain goat.
All proposals must be received by July 15. Written proposals can be hand-delivered to the FWP Licensing Bureau at 1420 E. 6th Ave. in Helena; mailed to P.O. Box 200701, Helena, MT 59620; or emailed to payton.schild@mt.gov. Large proposals or proposals with sensitive information can be sent via the state of Montana file transfer service found at https://transfer.mt.gov/Home/Login.
Montana’s Fish and Wildlife Commission will select the conservation organizations to conduct the auctions and lottery at its meeting on Aug. 16. Organizations submitting proposals are encouraged to attend the meeting. Selected organizations and individuals will be required to complete a cooperative agreement with FWP prior to auctioning any licenses.
LEWISTOWN — 27 teams of cheerleaders from across Montana gathered at Fergus High School for Cheerfest.
Justin Robicheau reports – watch the video here:
Cheerleaders showcase talent at Cheerfest
“It’s the largest interscholastic cheerleading competition for Montana. We’re very excited that schools can come and show what they’ve been working all season for. This is our state, this is our divisional. So we’re very excited and can’t wait to see what Montana brings to the mat,” Cheerfest Director Rayna Phelps said.
Phelps said this year’s event is different from last year.
“We were really focusing on ways that we can really up this experience for cheerleaders and dancers across the state of Montana. This year, we included a backdrop, and lots of beautiful accents all throughout. We have a judging table, so it looks really nice,” Phelps said.
“There’s a high school mascot competition. Junior high team competition. There’s all classes of high schools. Class B, class A, double A, small group and large group. There’s dance solos, dance teams from across the state. And we have a college showcase,” Phelps said.
Glasgow High School senior Annika Smith said her school finished third in last year’s Cheerfest.
“I’m so excited. This last year we got third. So I’m really excited to come back and really go and try and get first. And it’s a little sad because it’ll be my last year, but I’m really excited to go out and give it my all,” Smith said.
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For Fergus High School senior Miriam Pavlovick, being surrounded by other cheerleaders from across the state is uplifting.
“It’s nice to see, like, a lot so many cheerleaders who enjoy the same thing. So much. And we just all come together and support one another,” Pavlovick said.
“Obviously when we go travel for basketball and state, like that, we’re cheering on our team. And this is a cool opportunity to show what cheerleaders can do and our stunting on all of our dancing and really get to show off a different side of cheerleading,” Smith said.
Registration for next year’s competition will open after Christmas.
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KALISPELL, Mont. — Flathead Electric reports more than 9,000 customers in Flathead County are currently without power.
Officials say the outage is due to a transmission service disruption from Bonneville Power Administration.
Their outage map currently shows 9,700 outages.
The BPA outage is also affecting Lincoln Electric customers Eureka, Rexford and Trego. Close to 6,000 outages are reported on their outage map.
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