Trout Unlimited

At the headwaters of the Clark Fork River, Superfund cleanup and aging irrigation equipment have broken up habitat for native trout and caused populations to plummet.Now, a partnership of conservation groups and government agencies plans to reconnect isolated fish habitat from Deer Lodge to Butte.

Montana's Supreme Court has overruled a lower court decision, reinstating operations permits for a mine near the Smith River.

The city of Missoula, the nonprofit Trout Unlimited, the U.S. Forest Service and other partner agencies are tackling a $500,000 dam decommissioning in the remote Rattlesnake Wilderness. A proposal to remove the McKinley Lake dam is awaiting approval.

A multiyear project to restore a portion of central Montana’s Judith River is complete. Project collaborators hope the work will boost stream health and support the trout and insects that rely on the cold-water stream.

Conservation group Trout Unlimited is getting $40 million from the federal government to fund watershed restoration efforts in national forests across the country, including here in Montana.

Campaign contributions in the fight over Montana ballot initiative 186 have roughly doubled over the last month, most of that money is backing opponents…

The latest campaign finance reports show that a lot of the $3 million that’s flowed into the race for Montana’s I-186 ballot measure so far has come from…

The latest fundraising reports say opponents of a ballot initiative aimed at protecting Montana waterways from mine pollution have raised about 25 percent…