Montana Outdoors is a bi-monthly publication of Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks. Montana Outdoors promotes conservation of nature.The first issue of Montana Outdoors, published in November 1970, featured a photo of a grizzly bear feeding on an elk carcass. There was nothing poetic about the image, just the hard facts of biology, life, and death. Such a straightforward approach was the hallmark of the magazine’s first editor. Bill Schneider grew up in South Dakota, where he’d received bachelor’s degrees in wildlife biology and journalism.