The South Plateau Landscape Area Treatment Project, with the unfortunate acronym of SPLAT, is spread across more than 39,900 acres.
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The proposed Doney Lake Forest Habitat Improvement Project is drawing scrutiny from conservationists who worry the project will damage important grizzly habitat.
The Ninemile-Woodchuck acquisition is part of a 37,000-acre land swap accomplished through cooperation between the BLM and The Nature Conservancy.
The lands making up the Scapegoat Wilderness were once slated for a very different outcome.
Imagine the largest tree you ever saw. Maybe you remember looking up, trying to see all the way to its crown. Maybe you recall wanting to stre…
The Custer Gallatin National Forest is proposing to log 2,100 acres next door to the Red Lodge Mountain ski area and Timbercrest recreation area along the West Fork Rock Creek to reduce wildfire risk.
The federal district court in Montana halted a large-scale industrial logging project in endangered grizzly bear habitat in northwestern Monta…
Roughly 110 collegiate athletes from 10 schools around the country competed in the 2022 Pro-Am logging sports show at Fort Missoula on Friday.
Scenes from the Forestry Days loggings sports show competition at Fort Missoula, Friday, April 29, 2022.
The Lolo National Forest has dropped plans to defend logging and thinning the Soldier-Butler project in the Ninemile Ranger District west of Missoula after two federal court defeats.
"The time to act is now if we want to ultimately over time change the trajectory of these fires," Agriculture Sec. Tom Vilsack said.
State forest programs managed 25,000 acres this year, more than double 2020, the governor’s office announced Wednesday.
Trees talk in rings and needles, and the trees along Gold Creek are cranky.
BLM begins forest restoration in Gold Creek legacy logging area.
The U.S. Forest Service’s plan for the 2.9-million-acre forest is expected to drive management for the next 15 years.
If you haven’t been to the Cabinet-Yaak region in northwest Montana, you ought to go. You will find an incredibly beautiful landscape that alt…
The forest is planning three to six projects a year to cut trees, light prescribed fires and conduct other habitat restoration projects across 50 to 5,000 acres without public review. Ecotones are transition areas between two differing vegetation types or communities.
Opponents of a timber project accused the U.S. Forest Service of ignoring its own standards and rules to OK logging and road construction in habitat needed by grizzly bears, trout and elk.
Ochenski opinion: Deforestation is just about the worst thing we could do right now.
Gov. Greg Gianforte was not among the list of Western governors invited to meet with President Joe Biden Wednesday to discuss the federal government’s firefighting programs.
The North Bridgers Forest Health Project will soon begin with road maintenance, temporary road construction and then proceed to logging.
A logging project west of Yellowstone National Park in the Custer Gallatin National Forest has been halted.
Two nonprofit conservation advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to stop a logging and burning project in the Lewis and Clark portion of the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest.
A proposed logging project on more than 16,400 acres west of Yellowstone National Park is being contested by four conservation groups.
A cross-boundary forestry project on Red Lodge Mountain has been awarded a state grant. It's one of 14 projects given a portion of $4.5 million under the Montana Forest Action Plan.