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 ...

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 ...

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

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 company’s draft plan calls for redeveloping and widening three existing mine shafts created by past exploration of the mining claims, located in the headwaters of the West Fork of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...