Boasting 1,522 acres, this Montana lake is an overlooked gem for nature lovers, featuring excellent fishing, water sports, ...

(CN) — The approval and subsequent court-ordered obstruction of the U.S. Forest Service’s “Black Ram Project” in Montana’s Kootenai National Forest is up for a panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of ...

Bitterroot National Forest Supervisor Matthew D ... The work was to be done in cooperation with the Confederated Salish and ...

MISSOULA, Mont.— A federal judge late Thursday ruled in favor of conservation groups and scrapped the massive Black Ram logging project in Montana’s Kootenai National Forest. The project threatened a ...

A federal court judge in 2023 ruled against the Forest Service on a project in the Kootenai National Forest that similarly threatened grizzly bear habitats. Kelly wonders why the agency continues ...

As such, the agency can’t determine whether the project complies with the access standards in the Kootenai National Forest Plan. To that effect, the appeals court also determined that the agency had ...

The Bitterroot National Forest is hitting the brakes on a 4-year-old proposal to use thinning and prescribed burning to ...

A proposed timber sale in the Yaak Valley threatens old-growth trees and habitat. Instead, could it become the nation’s first ...

The Kootenai River is powerful ... Floodwaters destroyed the bridge in 1948, according to the U.S. Forest Service, and it was rebuilt in the 1950s. A suspension upgrade was done in 2019.