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FWP hears petitions on boating regulations for Bull River, Swan Lake

by HAILEY SMALLEY, Daily Inter Lake
| February 19, 2025 12:00 AM

Wildlife officials will consider new rules regulating the use of motorized boats on the Bull River south of Libby, following a petition from a local landowner.

The Fish, Wildlife and Parks commission voted Wednesday to accept a petition calling for the regulation of motorized watercraft on the Bull River in Northwest Montana. The vote initiates a public comment and review process, after which commissioners will decide whether to adopt new rules.

“I’ve been playing on the Bull River since I was a boy, and now my kids, my grandkids. We all spend a lot of time by or in the river,” said the petition’s author, Paul Overman. “It’s been a quiet peaceful safe river for years.”

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