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, ...

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 ...

HAMILTON, Mont. — The Bitterroot National Forest is warning boaters that last summer's severe wind storm is impacting conditions on the Selway River corridor. During the storm, wind speeds reached the ...

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 ...

HAMILTON, Mont. — It could be a tense weekend in western Montana as we weather Red Flag Warnings and Stage 2 fire restrictions. Fire danger on the Bitterroot National Forest is extreme. Winds are ...

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 ...

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 ...

HAMILTON – Come next summer, all-terrain vehicle riders will have something that they haven’t had in a very long time in the Bitterroot National Forest. Nearly 50 miles of trail in two loops are ...

Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest is proposing the Bitterroot Front Project (BFP), encompassing 144,000 acres. This action will impact an area more than four times the size of the 34,000-acre ...

HAMILTON – Firefighters chased three new lightning starts on the Bitterroot National Forest on Tuesday, while the Chrandal Creek fire southwest of Darby grew from 90 to 1,000 acres overnight. The new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An area of the Bitterroot National Forest where the Mud Creek Vegetation Management Project is slated to occur. In 2024, nonprofit ...