Landowners/Hunters Benefit From Block Mngmt Program

2020 marked the 25th anniversary of Fish, Wildlife & Parks' Block Management Program.

This popular access program started locally across Montana in the mid-1980s. However, through HB195 in the 1995 Legislative Session, it created the program as it's formally known today starting with the 1996 hunting season. Block Management provides public hunting opportunities on private land across the state and has created positive working relationships among landowners and hunters. Funding for Block Management comes from the sale of various licenses, including a portion of the resident and nonresident base hunting license, nonresident upland gamebird licenses, nonresident combination deer/elk licenses and chances sold in the Supertag license lottery.

For the 2020 hunting season, nearly 1,300 landowners enrolled about 7.2 million acres of land in the program. In Region 6, Seventy-seven landowners have been in the program for 25 or more years

In northeast Montana’s Region 6, an amazing 77 cooperating landowners have been involved in the program for 25 or more years. The Region 6 program quickly climbed to over 1 million acres b...