wildlands

It’s been about a year since lightning started a fire that burned almost 4,500 acres in the Lee Metcalf Wilderness and Yellowstone National Park. Local...

For the first time in thirty years, the U.S. Forest Service is updating its management plan for the Custer-Gallatin National Forest. It’ll determine...

A state judge has revoked the water permit for a silver and copper mine proposed beneath a northwestern Montana wilderness area.Judge Kathy Seeley said in…

Scientists at the University of Montana have found that climate change is already reducing the ability of some forests in the western U.S. to bounce back…

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is accepting public comment on a proposed management plan for wildlife habitat along the north shore of Flathead Lake…

A team of researchers at the University of Montana has received a $700,000 grant from NASA to promote reforestation efforts across the western United…

Two of Montana’s congressional candidates squared off Saturday night for their final debate before November’s election.Republican incumbent Greg Gianforte…

In about a year, the Environmental Protection Agency will leave Libby, where it’s worked for the last two decades to clean up asbestos contamination, a…

Salvage logging on a portion of the Rice Ridge Fire burn area near Seeley Lake is set to begin soon. The U.S. Forest Service is finalizing plans to log…

A proposal to ban mining near Yellowstone National Park got its first hearing in the U.S. House today. It has the unconditional support of Montana’s lone…