![Missoula Current](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2022/06/attachment-mc-sq-logo-profile.jpg?w=300&q=75)
Missoula Current
![Missoula Current](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2022/06/attachment-mc-sq-logo-profile.jpg?w=300&q=75)
![Upper Clark Fork landowners receive Forest Service restoration grant](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/09/attachment-Garnet-Mountains-water.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Upper Clark Fork landowners receive Forest Service restoration grant
Private landowners north of Gold Creek have received a $300,000 grant from the Forest Service to restore native habitat in the foothills of the southern Garnet Mountains by reducing conifer encroachment and restoring streams.
![Montana Viewpoint: A moral dilemma](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2018/04/Jim-Elliott-headshot-2015-249x350-1.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Montana Viewpoint: A moral dilemma
Jim Elliott writes, "Understand, I don’t really want to rat out the suspect involved, I just want to protect myself from being turned in for not performing my mandatory civic duty of turning someone in for something that I think other people think is wrong."
![In case you missed The Flaming Lips at the Kettle](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/09/attachment-Wayne-Coyne3.jpg?w=980&q=75)
In case you missed The Flaming Lips at the Kettle
The Flaming Lips have been active recording and touring for 40 years. They have won three Grammy's, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
![Viewpoint: Taking on Big Pharma one step at a time](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2017/11/drugs.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: Taking on Big Pharma one step at a time
Bob Wagner writes, "Montanans deserve better and the Prescriptions for Patients Act is a definitive first step to bringing down Big Pharma monopolies and freeing the pharmaceutical markets."
![Seeley forest project proposed under new federal policy](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2016/02/Seeley-Lake-8-17-11-1.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Seeley forest project proposed under new federal policy
The Lolo National Forest is proposing a large treatment project north of Seeley Lake, but a new federal process will limit public comment to initial scoping only.
![City’s workforce housing program could grow housing trust fund](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2017/08/construction-1.jpg?w=980&q=75)
City’s workforce housing program could grow housing trust fund
A new tool in state law that defines workforce housing as infrastructure has city leaders eager to implement a pilot program that will direct tax increment toward “bricks and mortar” projects while helping grow the city's Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
![Viewpoint: Preserve the old hospital at Fort Missoula](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2023/03/attachment-hospital-development-8.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: Preserve the old hospital at Fort Missoula
John Westenberg writes, "It is disappointing to read statements from some opponents that allowing the hospital to gradually deteriorate in place, even to the point of demolition, is preferable to any proposal that requires some attendant development."
![Viewpoint: It’s time to live in harmony with grizzly bears](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2022/05/Grizzly-Sow-with-3-cubs-June-06-2.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Viewpoint: It’s time to live in harmony with grizzly bears
Lizzy Pennock and James Holt write, "Grizzly bears are slowly reclaiming parts of their historic range for the first time since European settlers nearly eradicated them from the lower-48. And with bear expansion comes great responsibility."
![Survey suggests Forest Service under-estimates illegal road use](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2020/12/BLM-Road.jpg?w=980&q=75)
Survey suggests Forest Service under-estimates illegal road use
A Swan Valley environmental group has found more evidence that Forest Service road closures are often ineffective, and the resulting illegal road use threatens Montana’s fish and wildlife.
![City seeks to assure neighborhood of shelter’s ‘temporary’ presence](http://townsquare.media/site/1098/files/2020/11/homeless-shelter-2.jpg?w=980&q=75)
City seeks to assure neighborhood of shelter’s ‘temporary’ presence
Council members Mike Nugent, Sandra Vasecka and Kristen Jordan sponsored a proposal that would commit the city to master plan the Johnson Street shelter property within one year and complete the building's demolition within three years.