Missoula Current

Wildlife advocates have asked the courts to require the Bitterroot National Forest to keep its limits on road building to preserve wildlife and bull trout habitat.

Six skiers from Missoula and several others from Montana will compete this week in the coveted U.S. Mogal Selections, which begin on Tuesday at Winter Park in Colorado.

Monica Tranel writes, "Montana had one of the highest rates of kicking eligible people off of Medicaid, forcing them to go without insurance or to re-enroll."

Jim Harmon writes, "Today’s column seems more like a “Meanwhile” segment on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert than my usual fodder of old newspaper stories."

Governor Greg Gianforte announced the appointment of Christy Clark as FWP director. Clark is currently the director of the Montana Department of Agriculture.

The Circle H Ranch subdivision was approved in 1994 with 76 residential lots on 825 acres off Butler Creek Road and Interstate 90.

KC York writes, "Massive, injurious leghold traps, strangling snares, and quick-kill-body-crushing conibear traps, can be baited, and secreted DIRECTLY on the closed roads that hundreds of people routinely recreate on in the winter."

Montana Grizzly head coach Bobby Hauck and his staff added 16 players to the incoming class of 2025 on Wednesday – the first day of the early signing period.

Mike Garrity writes, "Nearly 13 square miles (8,283 acres) are slated for commercial logging to produce four million board feet of timber a year."

Missoula Loft Homes, planned by Miramonte Homes LLC, will include 162 dwelling units in a variety of housing types, including single-family homes and row houses.