Missoula Current

Missoula County this week will consider an urban style housing project off Highway 93 near the Wye – an area slated for transition over the coming years.

Biologists worry that mountain lions are possibly being over-hunted, so one Fish, Wildlife & Parks commissioner tried to apply the brakes in her region. She was overruled.

The event featured top teaching artists from across the country and was backed by the Kennedy Center’s Any Given Child initiative.

Eric Melson writes, "Our public lands aren’t financial chips to be traded when budgets get tight. They’re part of who we are—and once sold, they’re gone forever."

The issue of declining church attendance takes us back to June 25, 1890 when a letter to the editor of the Missoula Weekly Gazette, submitted by someone identifying himself as “An Old Deacon,” offered up his opinion on the subject.

The Pride parade drew thousands of people to downtown Missoula on Saturday.

After the U.S. Department of Interior failed to uphold its part of a legal settlement, two organizations have renewed their lawsuit to try to save bull trout in the upper Clark Fork River.

Abby Huseth writes, "It feels fitting to be going solar on the summer solstice, as we celebrate the longest day of the year and all that this season of abundant sunlight brings."

Suzanne Cable writes, "The gutting of the Forest Service is just one example of a national crisis that will take years or decades to recover from once we, as a society, choose to stop the damage to our federal system of governance."

To be listed as “endangered,” the law says the species has to be “in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range.” The definition of “threatened” is similar.