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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An area of the Bitterroot National Forest where the Mud Creek Vegetation Management Project is slated to occur. In 2024, nonprofit groups sued over a different project in the Bitterroot National ...

It is great to see that the Bitterroot Travel Plan decision is focused on maintaining the wilderness characteristics of wilderness study areas. However, the decision to restrict mountain bikes from ...

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 ...

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, ...

WEST FORK – Mark Rhodes has some very simple advice for the rookies preparing to spend their first summer in a lookout tower on the Bitterroot National Forest. Before they make that report on the ...

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 ...

MISSOULA, Mont.— In response to a legal challenge from conservation groups, the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reconsider approval of the controversial Eastside project in ...