All avenues of communications are utilized in the Fish and Game Department's Information-Education program. Film center technicians 

 shoot final footage while preparing a fish and game film. 



INFORMATION-EDUCATION DIVISION 



Montanans have characteristically been an 

 outdoor people, and outdoors to a large percentage 

 of them is synonomous with hunting and fishing. 

 Probably no other resource or activity in Montana 

 is subject to as much controversy as is game, its 

 management and regulation. The controversy is not 

 limited to hunters, but embraces landowners who 

 may or may not hunt, other state and federal 

 resource agencies, nature lovers, anti-gun elements, 

 pro-gun elements, guides and outfitters, sports 

 dealers and nearly every other segment of our 

 citizenry. The management of game and regulation 

 of its hunting affects so many people in so many 

 ways that controversy, often heated, is chronic and 

 inevitable. Sound information, however, can help 

 to keep these controversies constructive rather 

 than destructive. 



Each week there are hundreds of inquiries for 



specific information made to the Fish and Game 

 Department. Many of these inquiries can be 

 answered with prepared literature, but special 

 letters are prepared for those which cannot. In 

 addition, a monthly publication, "Montana 

 Outdoors" is distributed to sports groups, 

 legislators, schools and to other Montanans who 

 request it. The magazine "Montana Wildlife" is 

 published on an irregular schedule as time permits 

 its preparation. 



On most Fridays almost 800 news releases are 

 mailed to newspapers, TV and radio stations, 

 sportswriters, legislators, county attorneys, and 

 other important sources. The Friday release date 

 has been chosen as it comes the nearest to 

 satisfying both daily and weekly papers. Feature 

 stories are prepared also, assistance is given to 

 national sportswriters, and to editors working on 



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