87-1-107. Right to harvest -- legislative intent. The legislature, mindful of its constitutional obligations under Article II, section 3, of the Montana constitution protecting the inalienable rights of a person to pursue life's basic necessities, enjoy the person's life and liberties, and pursue happiness in all lawful ways, and Article IX, section 7, of the Montana constitution protecting the opportunity for a person to harvest wild fish and wild game animals while not diminishing other private rights, has enacted the laws of this title pertaining to the lawful means of hunting, fishing, and trapping, as defined in 87-2-101 and 87-6-101, as adequate remedies for the preservation of the harvest heritage of the individual citizens of this state.
Montana Code Annotated
Mont. Code Ann. § 87-1-107 (2026)
Right To Harvest -- Legislative Intent
✓ current as of May 2026
Find cases:
SyfertCases citing this section
MT-LEGleg.mt.gov
JustiaTitle on Justia
CornellLII Search
CasesGoogle Scholar
TITLE 87. FISH AND WILDLIFE
CHAPTER 1. ORGANIZATION AND OPERATION
Part 1. General Provisions
Right To Harvest -- Legislative Intent
History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 105, L. 2015.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 1
case (1 in the last 5 years), 2021–2021 · leading case: Gardipee v. State of Montana (D. Mont. 2021).
Gardipee v. State of Montana (D. Mont. 2021). “” Mont. Code Ann. § 87-1-107 . Among other things, these statutes provide FWP and FWC with duties and powers concerning wildlife management, including the power to restrict certain hunting seasons to the use of specified hunting arms, such as establishing special archery seasons.”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the
Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and
treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.