The Bitterroot Mountains are one of the better known mountain ranges of the American Rocky Mountains. The range traces its fame to the earliest American exploration, the Lewis and Clark Expedition of ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - The National Weather Service has issued an avalanche warning for parts of North Idaho Thursday. NWS warns of high avalanche danger in the west and east Cabinet Mountains and the ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — TheWest Central Montana Avalanche Center reports avalanche danger is high in the Bitterroot Mountains on Friday. "Very dangerous avalanche conditions exist. 1-3 feet of snow has ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Wednesday a public scoping procedure and new environmental impact statement for recovering a breeding population of threatened grizzly bears in the ...

You don't need to drive to Glacier National Park to see the Rocky Mountains of Montana at their best. Take a right turn at Lolo, the first Montana city when driving U.S. 12 east into Montana from ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. MISSOULA — A handful of grizzly bears continued to roam the edges of the Bitterroot over the past ...

“In the Shadow of the Bitterroots” will tell the stories of the Bitterroot Mountain range. Idaho’s Bitterroot Mountains define our state’s squiggly eastern border. Rugged, remote and hard to get to, ...

Recovery of endangered grizzly bears in the lower 48 states hinges on critical genetic connectivity between the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Continental grizzlies provided by the Bitterroot ...

MISSOULA – Volunteer grizzly bear advocates have produced several new research studies contending that the Bitterroot Mountains along the Montana-Idaho border have strong potential for recovering the ...

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 ...

Pedaling into Taft Tunnel, which burrows beneath the Bitterroot Mountains at the Montana-Idaho border, my sons and I quickly plunged into blackness. Scents of damp rock, the sounds of water running ...

For our annual Adventure Travel issue, we scoured the globe to find the 25 Best New Trips in the World for 2010, complete with a Best Trips photo gallery. Today, we present Idaho and Montana. The ...