By Brian Potton
Attention all Montana sportsmen and women. If you purchased your 2019 Hunting or Fishing licenses prior to May 1st, you might want to dig them out and take another look at them. Chances are they be will as blank as the look on your face when you look at them. Evidently Montana FWP got a bad batch of paper, to which the ink does not correctly adhere, and basically looks like they were printed with disappearing ink. Mine were completely blank. You must go to a FWP regional office to get them replaced. All other vendors have to charge you $5 per tag. Below is copies from an email I received from Montana FWP.
“Faded hunting and fishing licenses can be replaced for free at FWP offices. Hunters and anglers with licenses that are displaying faded text making them difficult to read can have those licenses replaced at no cost at their regional Fish, Wildlife and Parks office. Another option is to go to fwp.mt.gov, login to MyFWP and request a digital version of your license to print at home or download to your smartphone. Digital licenses are good for everything but a carcass tag.
Replacement at an FWP office of faded licenses does not count against the number replacements an individual is allowed. Local license providers are typically unable to offer frer replacements, and cost $5 per license replaced.”