State wildlife officials with the help of a Flathead Valley conservation group have acquired nearly 800 acres along the Flathead River near Columbia Falls. The Bad Rock Wildlife Management Area is one of the last undeveloped tracts of land along the Flathead River. The acquisition will protect winter range for wildlife.

Mountain snowpack is starting to make significant gains in several of Montana’s otherwise parched river basins.

The Bitterroot National Forest is again moving forward with a logging and prescribed burn project east of Corvallis. The agency released another draft record of decision for the Gold Butterfly Project Friday.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grants were awarded to the Blackfeet Nation, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and Climate Smart Missoula.

The meltwater lednian and western glacier stoneflies require cold flowing water from glaciers or snowfields to survive. Scientists predict those cold-water sources could be gone by 2030 due to climate change.

The plan lays out population goals and a management plan should the federally protected Yellowstone grizzly be delisted in the future.

Commitee members want to draw more tourism dollars into southeast Montana by improving amenities at fishing and walking spots along the river.

Climate change may produce new pacific salmon habitat in the western US. That’s the finding of a study led by Simon Fraser University involving University of Montana researchers published in Nature Communications.

The park will again require tickets for Going-to-the-Sun Road in 2022 and for the first time will also require visitors to have tickets for the Polebridge entrance of the park.

Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks says the always fatal contagious neurological disease that infects deer, elk and moose was found in a white-tailed deer in hunting district 317 southeast of Livingston and north of Yellowstone Park.