Five groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking to restore the ban on electric bikes in national parks.
A pair of stakeholder forums about the future of the Lolo and Bitterroot national forests raised complaints from groups wondering why they wer…
KALISPELL – With one deadline past and another looming, Flathead National Forest officials will be working weekends to identify the issues rai…
Public positioning has ratcheted up around Montana as its two senators prepare very different wilderness legislation for congressional hearing on Wednesday.
While most grizzly bears have retreated to their winter dens, the officials in charge of their fate have a busy two weeks of work ahead.
A week after Sen. Jon Tester released his Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act, some wilderness advocates question what it might really do.
A legal change to allow bikes in federal wilderness hasn’t been introduced in Congress yet, but the issue already has advocates riled and rolling.
Objectors to commercial logging in the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area won their battle to have the hillsides on Missoula’s northern frin…
Idaho wildlife managers trapped and collared four wolves by mistake in an elk-collaring project already facing legal challenges for using heli…
A pair of temporary communication towers in remote parts of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest could become permanent under a new propos…
I’m on the board of Wilderness Watch and am appalled at the Senate’s legislation recently adding 67,000 acres to the Bob Marshall Wilderness. …
AUGUSTA – Consider the wild raspberry.
HAMILTON – Stewart Brandborg speaks in slow, precise, fully formed paragraphs.
BOISE, Idaho – Conservation groups are suing federal and state officials over Idaho’s plan to track and kill wolves from two packs in central Idaho.
BOISE, Idaho – Conservation groups are suing federal and state officials over Idaho’s plan to track and kill wolves from two packs in central Idaho.
A helicopter can be used to fly in equipment to repair a failing dam in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, despite environmentalists' objection…
HAMILTON – Two wilderness groups have sued the U.S. Forest Service over its decision to allow an irrigation company to use a helicopter to fly…
"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." \
HAMILTON - The operators of a wilderness dam say they will start preliminary work this fall on a major reconstruction project, following a dec…
DARBY - Last-minute negotiations Thursday afternoon failed to break an impasse on the future of a wilderness dam on the Bitterroot National Forest.
Bill Worf first slept out under the stars on his family's eastern Montana ranch in a sleeping bag his mother sewed for him, the beginning of h…
Since my guest column, “Tester forest bill damages wildlands, legitimizes secrecy” (Feb. 16), I have been assailed by two other Missoulian gue…
