Environment

Development of a wastewater facility near Flathead Lake will continue, but so will a lawsuit that seeks to stop the release of sewage while the state does a more thorough environmental analysis.

These cameras use a combination of motion and heat-sensing technology to snap a picture when an animal passes.

Another developer is poised to open a gravel pit in the Blackfoot watershed, so another community group has formed to stop the state and the county from approving it.

After the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved Montana’s reduced water quality standards earlier this month, nine environmental groups are pushing DEQ for a plan before the state issues more pollution discharge permits.

Demand for electricity in the West is forecast to increase by more than 20% over the next decade, the Western Electricity Coordinating Council estimated in its most recent assessment of “resource adequacy.”

The Forest Service didn't "err on the side of the bear" when it left out illegal road use from the project assessment.

Montana’s drought hasn’t been kind to livestock producers, especially those in the Blackfoot River valley.

Under a plan approved by a magistrate judge, the Forest Service wanted to go after invasive trout in Montana's Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.

The state and Missoula city and county have worked to log, thin and burn Marshal Canyon’s wildland-urban interface.

The city's runoff isn't treated at the Wastewater Treatment Plant but instead is fed into area rivers, or injected in dry wells, which could threaten the aquifer.