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Bear Hunting is a Favorite Sport in Montana. 



on these birds is from September 1 to October 1; wild ducks, limit twenty per day, 

 and wild geese and brant (no limit) September 1 to January 1. 



There is no closed season on bear, which are often the coveted quarry of local and 

 eastern sportsmen, during the months of April, May and the early part of June. At 

 this time, especially during the month of May, the skins are prime. The animals 

 have just finished their winter hibernation. When they first emerge from their long 

 retreat, they are in fairly good flesh and ravenously hungry. Unless they immediately 

 find food in considerable quanitity they rapidly loose flesh and soon become thin and 

 gaunt. It is at this time that bear travel over a large area in twenty-four hours in 

 quest of meals and it is especially true of the Grizzly or Silver Tip variety that at this 

 season they are most fierce and seldom seek to avoid an encounter with their natural 

 enemy — man — consequently to the hunter, in addition to procuring pelts in their 

 primest condition, there is the added zest of dangerous sport. 



Bear are native to all the mountainous regions of the State, but probably the great- 

 est numbers are found in the counties adjacent to the Yellowstone ISiationai Park and 

 in the northweftern portion of Montana, being particularly numerous on the South Fork 

 of the Flathead and Swan rivers, in Powell, Flathead, Missoula and Lincoln coun- 

 ties, where many silver tips and other varieties of the bruin family abound. These 

 regions are also the homes of thousands of elk and deer which may be hunted 

 during the open season, subject only to the provisions of the game laws, which re- 

 quire the possession of the proper hunting license and an observance of the law as 

 to the limit. 



While Montana has long been known as the hunter's paradise, the fishing 

 streams are also among the best on the American continent. Here, native to the 

 waters of the eastern side of the continental divide are found millions of toothsome 

 grayling, beautiful game fish, the peacocks of the aqueous realm, which are native to 



