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 ...

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 ...

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.— 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 ...

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

Along the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, Bitterroot Valley Trapper Peak, near Sula, Montana. (Photo by Roger Peterson/ U.S. Forest Service) The Trump administration has backed off a logging ...

As the Trump administration continues to reduce federal oversight, a Canadian mining company has finally submitted an ...

HAMILTON, Mont. - Many popular trails in the Bitterroot National Forest will be cleaner and easier to access after this weekend. National Trails Day is a time to celebrate our trails by breaking a ...

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 ...

HAMILTON — The long wait for the Bitterroot National Forest’s updated travel plan is over. After more than seven years of public involvement, a record 13,400 comments and thousands of hours of ...

Bitterroot Valley rancher Tom Maclay cannot build a downhill ski area on Lolo Peak under existing forest management plans, supervisors of the Lolo and Bitterroot national forests said Wednesday. And ...

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 ...