Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. To help elk, a 1987 Forest Plan set limits on road densities, but the limits ended up helping ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An area of the Bitterroot National Forest where the Mud Creek Vegetation Management Project is slated to occur. In 2024, nonprofit ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Bitterroot National Forest will begin prescribed burning operations in April. There are plans to burn more than 9,200 acres this spring. Forest officials say smoke may be visible at ...

Though a federal judge said an altered forest plan would likely impact grizzly bears and bull trout, she asked for more ...

HAMILTON, Mont.— Conservation groups urged the U.S. Forest Service today to disclose more information about a Canadian company’s mining exploration plans in Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest, set ...

The Gold Butterfly logging and burning project, east of Corvallis, Montana, is in wolverine and grizzly bear habitat and bull trout critical habitat in the Sapphire Mountains on the Bitterroot ...

HAMILTON, Mont. — Folks in the Bitterroot will see smoke from a controlled burn in the Bitterroot National Forest again Wednesday. The Forest Service is burning logging units in the Como Forest Health ...

HAMILTON – Firefighters chased three new lightning starts on the Bitterroot National Forest on Tuesday, while the Chrandal Creek fire southwest of Darby grew from 90 to 1,000 acres overnight. The new ...

Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest is proposing the Bitterroot Front Project (BFP), encompassing 144,000 acres. This action will impact an area more than four times the size of the 34,000-acre ...

Four years ago, when he took the job as supervisor of the Bitterroot National Forest, Rodd Richardson thought about what people would say - someday - when he left. And he knew that no matter when he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A grizzly bear. (Photo by Jean Beaufort.) To help elk, a 1987 Forest Plan set limits on road densities, but the limits ended up ...

A logging and clearcutting project in the Bitterroot National Forest will make it harder to hunt elk, inflates the amount of “old growth” that would be left, and will cost taxpayers $4.2 million, ...