Region 6 Havre Check Station seeing mixed bag on harvest

From Fish, Wildife and Parks

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ Havre hunter check station has been operating for five weeks so far for the 2017 hunting season and is seeing a mixed bag of data on the season’s harvest.

Mule deer harvest has been high compared to previous years, and most big game species and upland birds have been slightly down.

Over the five weeks the check station has been open, overall hunter numbers are down 7 percent from last year and are 6 percent below the long-term average.

“Muddy, wet weather conditions the first weekend the check station opened may have...