Montana and the U.S. Forest Service announced last week they were moving ahead on a shared agreement between the two to do ...

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. The Bitterroot Mountains of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness in Montana. (Photo by Getty Images.) A Bozeman-based environmental ...

The two landscapes selected span three western forests — the Flathead, Kootenai and Bitterroot National Forests — where officials have designated over 400,000 acres of project area.

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 – The Bitterroot National Forest’s first update to its travel plan in four decades is getting mixed reviews. The national forest officially released its new plan Wednesday after nine years of ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Earlier this month the Bitterroot National Forest Supervisor Matt Anderson enacted a new bolting and route development ban that impacts rock climbers. Forest officials say because of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Bitterroot National Forest today formally withdrew its decision authorizing the Gold Butterfly Project. Friends of the Bitterroot and the Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit on July 10th ...