U.S. Forest Service

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.

Missoula District Court Judge Donald Molloy ruled that the forest service improperly exempted the Stonewall project from management rules aimed at maintaining elk herds in the area.

A U.S. District Court judge in Missoula has stopped a logging project on the Lolo National Forest, saying it didn’t follow the forest’s management plan.

Nearly 15,000 acres of land previously owned by a private logging and development company have been transferred to the Lolo National Forest.The two…

For millennia, wildfire was part of life in North America. Indigenous people used it for tradition and ceremony, to improve the health of ecosystems, and to assist with hunting and gathering. But the arrival of white settlers marked the beginning of an era in which that knowledge about fire and its role on the landscape was suppressed. Now, Indigenous groups across the country are working to revive tribal relationships with fire.

The Flathead National Forest released its environmental assessment Tuesday for the Stovepipe Project northwest of Kalispell. The project aims to reduce…

Federal agencies are figuring out how to treat masks on public land in the wake of Gov. Greg Gianforte’s repeal of Montana’s statewide mask…

Earlier this week, Gov. Greg Gianforte announced one of the first timber sales to go through a state-federal partnership this year. The amount of timber…

On Wednesday, the Kootenai National Forest signaled that it's moving forward on a sprawling and controversial logging project.The U.S. Forest Service says…

State and federal officials say a large mining clean-up project in Montana is nearly complete and open for recreation.At the Upper Blackfoot Mining…