Environment

The U.S. Department of the Interior unveiled a first round of grants to plug wells on tribal lands.

Demand for water in growing municipalities is stretching agricultural and tribal communities, while shrinking availability is leading to higher water prices.

The act would add about 78,000 acres of wilderness to the Bob Marshall, Scapegoat and Mission Mountains wilderness areas and create two recreation management areas for snowmobiling and mountain biking.

A controversial pipeline proposal that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service would have placed in a designated wilderness area in southwestern Montana has been withdrawn by the federal agency.

Groups are challenging a U.S. Forest Service logging project within the Custer-Gallatin National Forest outside Yellowstone National Park, a project they claim would imperil habitat for federally protected wildlife species.

Nine wildlife groups sent a letter to Fish, Wildlife & Parks Director Dustin Temple asking for more diverse public involvement in the development of Montana’s updated wolf management plan.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is hoping its second attempt at developing a management plan for its Fish Creek property is more acceptable to the public than the first.

The growth of remote and hybrid work during the pandemic, spurred by guidelines on social distancing, can reduce the carbon footprint of simply working by as much as 58% in the United States.

With bear conflicts on the rise, Missoula County has voiced its intent to adopt changes to existing health codes that would expand the bear buffer zone around the city and implement over three years a measure requiring bear-proof trash containers.

The Northern Region of the U.S. Forest Service is using new authority and funding to propose logging projects across seven national forests in Montana and Idaho, but some see it as another way to shortcut public involvement.