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 ...

Montana and the U.S. Forest Service announced last week they were moving ahead on a shared agreement between the two to do ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Bitterroot National Forest invites visitors to the park for a relaxing holiday without fireworks. Officials say park visitors can help ensure the safety and enjoyment of themselves ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The national forest officially released its new plan Wednesday after nine years of public involvement that included a record 13,400 comments. For those whose focus was wilderness and quiet travel, the ...

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 ...

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. A logging and clearcutting project in the Bitterroot National Forest will make it harder to hunt ...