A federal judge is considering whether a Sapphire Range logging project can proceed when it might reduce habitat for ...

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 ...

An area of the Bitterroot National Forest where the Mud Creek Vegetation Management Project is slated to occur. In 2024, nonprofit groups sued over a different project in the Bitterroot National ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Along the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, Bitterroot Valley Trapper Peak, near Sula, Montana. (Photo by Roger Peterson/ U.S.

Environmental groups have sued U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service leaders as well as Interior Secretary Deb Haaland over plans to allow more road-building in the Bitterroot ...

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 ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — During yesterday's thunder and lightning storms ten new lightning cause fires were started on the Bitterroot National Forest. Officials say over 500 lightning strikes were confirmed ...

A group of conservation organizations said U.S. Critical Materials presented a “bad faith” proposal for “a mining plan” in the Sheep Creek area of the Bitterroot.

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 ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Bitterroot National Forest reminds the public of the annual climbing closure north of Hamilton. The annual climbing closure for the Mill Creek Canyon area started Feb. 1 to let cliff ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A logging and clearcutting project in the Bitterroot National Forest will make it harder to hunt ...

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, ...