Bill Schenk

State wildlife managers are working to lease half a million acres of private land to conserve prairie habitat in eastern Montana. The program will create temporary land protections for threatened ecosystems.

The state of Montana filed its final arguments late last week in the complex and controversial lawsuit over the fate of Yellowstone-area grizzly bears.In…

Updated 7:00 p.m. 08/30/18Grizzly bear hunts in Wyoming and Idaho scheduled to begin Saturday were temporarily halted by a federal judge in Missoula…