With drenching rains and high-elevation snow this weekend, fire management officials in Northwest Montana are finally calling the historic 2015 fire season over.
Bear interactions have been on the rise in Western Montana, with reports of bears popping up in houses, on highways, at fishing access sites and even wandering the halls of Bozeman High School.
Bluetongue disease, a virus that has been killing deer in the Northwest U.S. recently, has now shown up in Northwestern Montana, according to state wildlife officials.
Pointing to this summer’s historic fire season in his home state, Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., says he is working to advance a bill in the Senate that would attempt to increase forest fuel treatment and harvest while making federal emergency funds available to the Forest Service for wildfire suppression.
Cool, rainy conditions in the Fortine area were favorable enough on the Marston Fire that the fire management team and Flathead and Kootenai national forests have lifted most of the land closures in the Whitefish Range.
Fire investigators have determined that lightning caused the 18,845-acre Thompson Fire in the Nyack drainage in the south-central area of Glacier National Park.
This weekend, the Citizens Equal Rights Foundation will host a conference in Kalispell billed as an “instant training center” for citizens and public officials to learn about federal Indian policy.
A red flag warning is in effect today as three rounds of thunderstorms are forecast to hit Western Montana with potentially dramatic impacts on the fast-growing Thompson Fire in Glacier National Park.
Despite the robust recovery of grizzly bears in the forested mountains of Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex and the surrounding landscape, the great bear’s future across the region remains far from certain.
Officials with Glacier National Park and the team battling the Reynolds Creek Fire expect that the Going-to-the-Sun Road east of Logan Pass will open in the not-too-distant future.
A five-acre wildland fire on the northwest shore of Wild Horse Island in Flathead Lake is under control after flaring up Wednesday afternoon from an unattended campfire.
A five-acre wildland fire on the northwest shore of Wild Horse Island in Flathead Lake is under control after flaring up Wednesday afternoon from an unattended campfire.
Despite scattered showers and lower temperatures in Northwest Montana last week, the Flathead Valley and surrounding areas remain under Stage One Fire restrictions.
Despite a red flag warning for the east side of Glacier National Park, firefighting crews were able to make gains on the ground Wednesday along the eastern portion of the Reynolds Creek Fire.
More than 20,000 public comments were submitted to the Flathead National Forest on its draft revised forest plan along with a proposed grizzly bear conservation strategy including four other national forests in Western Montana.
More than 20,000 public comments were submitted to the Flathead National Forest on its draft revised forest plan along with a proposed grizzly bear conservation strategy including four other national forests in Western Montana.
The U.S. House of Representatives on passed a bill on Thursday that would, in some cases, require groups and individuals to pay bonds before filing lawsuits against timber projects.
The U.S. House of Representatives on passed a bill on Thursday that would, in some cases, require groups and individuals to pay bonds before filing lawsuits against timber projects.
MANY GLACIER — Top grizzly bear experts from Montana, U.S. and Canadian governments descended on Many Glacier Hotel last week to discuss the future of grizzly bear populations throughout the Northwest, including in and around Glacier National Park.
A study published by the University of Montana on May 5 asserts that the Forest Service region containing Montana has the highest rate of litigated timber sales, and is costing the agency and surrounding communities tens of millions of dollars.
On Thursday the state Senate’s final vote on the tribal water compact officially sent the bill to the House one day ahead of the Legislature’s transmittal deadline.
After a round of legislative maneuvering on Tuesday, the state Senate will vote today on the bill to ratify the water compact involving the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
Annie Oakley, the yellow Lab who nearly perished in a fire last month in Olney, is steadily improving after an outpouring of support from the community.
Following four hours of deliberation Friday night, a 12-member jury convicted Bruce Allen Frey of three counts of felony sexual assault for long-term molestation of three young girls.
Outdoor recreation sometimes can be a risky business. To help manage those risks, a bill heading through the state Legislature would shield recreation providers from lawsuits based on events outside their control.
