Montana Wildlife Artistry taxidermy is preparing a life-sized mount of an unusual bighorn ram. The base of the ram's horns measured more than 16 inches and stretched out to 44 inches. It would have scored close to 206 inches under the Boone and Crockett scoring system — a trophy-class animal — if it weren’t for one large flaw. The ram has a baseball-sized gap burned into the back of the right horn.

The dry winter hasn’t gone unnoticed by skiers and snowboarders who saw delayed openings at several Montana ski hills. Thankfully, recent storms have been slowly but steadily building the snowpack.

Gov. Greg Gianforte has announced three nominees to one of Montana’s most closely watched public bodies, the Fish and Wildlife Commission.

An avalanche on Friday south of Cooke City swept three Bozeman-area skiers down Republic Mountain. One was seriously injured and had to be evacuated by helicopter and another was temporarily unconscious and not breathing, according to a report by the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center.

FWP and its partners developed the project to restore marten to the Little Belts because they are generally unable to disperse naturally across large expanses of non-forested habitat.

The fungus causes several problems, one of which is that it irritates bats, causing them to arouse early from hibernation and search for water and food. It is not known to affect humans, pets, livestock or other wildlife.

After scattering like wildfire in a gust of wind, 49 bighorn sheep have settled in to their new home in the Little Belt Mountains.

Wildfire smoke accounted for up to half of all health-damaging small particle air pollution in the western U.S. in recent years as warming temperatures fueled more destructive blazes, according to a study released Monday.

The tallest active geyser in the world has been erupting at a record pace since March 2018. Why are eruptions so energetic, what influences the intervals between eruptions, and why did Steamboat reactivate in the first place?