Blackfoot Valley Dispatch - The Blackfoot Valley's News Source Since 1980

Hunter activity and harvest picked up in the third weekend of the general big game season in west-central Montana.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks reports that after a slow start to the season, the Bonner check station is now showing 2,625 hunter trips and the Darby station is reporting 2,144, inching within 10 percent and 4 percent of hunter activity reported at this time last year.

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