MILES CITY (AP) — A Montana outfitter, a guide and seven nonresident clients have paid $5,595 in fines and restitution for game violations in a case involving Powder River Outfitters of Broadus.
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Montana’s Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks said Thursday that outfitter Kenneth Greslin was charged with violating the Lacey Act and paid a fine of $2,025 in U.S. District Court. Greslin also paid $1,070 in fines in Powder River and Lewis and Clark counties for misrepresenting services to clients and failing to submit records to the state Board of Outfitters.

Game wardens also found violations by clients from Wisconsin, Texas, New York, New Jersey and Quebec, Canada. Among them were killing two antelope without valid licenses, lending and transferring licenses, and archery clients hunting without valid licenses.

They and Powder River Outfitter guide Jason Coulter paid fines or forfeited bonds.

Too bad they didn't take their hunting rights away too!!

Wow! I have not personally hunted with Powder River Outfitters, but I have talked to people who have. They recommended the outfit. Sounds like something changed....

- mike

Could not happen to a better crew.Three years ago one of their Guides tried to kick us off Public land claiming we were tresspassing.I guess they did not like we had taken two nice bucks,one a Booner when they could not scrounge up zip for their clients.Screw them!!!!!!!!

I used to hunt quite a bit in the area that miscreant and his trolls guided in and around. It was little things like posting public lands, attempting to bully me off public lands (on several occations) trying to bully me off private land I had permission to hunt and that jackass did not. He and his creatons left me alone after I got a GPS unit and a radio in my truck. On our last meeting I offered to call the warden and the sheriff for him, I'd be happy to wait. He left but as they say if looks could kill it would have been us instead of him...

The Board of Outfitters is a farce in Montana. I know, I was licensed for 12 years here and worked with the board for 2 years, total joke, nothing more than a PR smokescreen for a bunch of coyotes and skunks. A few years ago a sitting board member, one of the pilars of the outfitting industry, was busted for similar charges and got a "strongly worded letter" but was not only not fined or suspended but also kept his seat on the board!! Shades of the UN....

I too have hunted Mule Deer around the Broadus area on a few occasions. If it were not for the generosity of a few very fine landowners around that area nobody would be able to hunt there unless they were a client of Powder River.

I don't have any personal knowledge of the business and so won't say anyting about that, but I do think that in fairness to all folks that like to hunt there should be some sort of rule limiting the amount of land that any one outfitter can lease.

I stopped at many landowners in different years to ask permission and was told that the land was leased to Powder River. I would have been happy to pay a reasonable trespass fee at each place, but was told that their contract with Poweder River prevented it.

I understand the almighty dollar speaks loudly, but I can't for the life of me, get why it's so hard to play by the rules. I live in an area that, at one time, was notable for good pheasant hunting. We constantly chased trespassers away. I have a friend that has 1600 posted acres of whitetail hunting property, and he chases trespassers off every year, sometimes the same guys. All this sh*t does is make hunters look bad in the eyes of the people that paint us all with the same brush. These guys need their hunting privaledges suspended permanently! A couple years hard labor wouldn't be bad either imho