OUTDOORS: Commission to hold public hearing on proposed changes to rules for field trial regulations, game bird dog training and game bird farms

HELENA - The Fish and Wildlife Commission will hold a public hearing via Zoom Dec. 15, at 10 a.m., to consider the proposed adoption, amendment and repeal of rules pertaining to field trial regulations, game bird dog training and game bird farms.

The 2019 Legislature enacted House Bill 29, which changed the legal requirements for certain activities relating to field trials and the training of dogs using captive-reared upland game birds. In addition, HB 29 made some of FWP's existing administrative rules contrary to the new law, or confusing, or redundant. Upon passage of HB 29, FWP underto...