Environment

After almost a decade of internal unrest, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is reorganizing the wardens’ division to address employee issues of trust and morale.

Neither of Montana’s Congressmen were present at Wednesday’s event. In June 2025, Reps. Ryan Zinke and Troy Downing both cheered a proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule.

The Bureau of Land Management issued a final decision late last week canceling a series of permits that allowed bison grazing on federal land by the nonprofit conservation organization American Prairie.

Despite distemper-driven decline, most remaining canines now have strong antibodies and resistance — and state biologists are upbeat about the species’ ability to rebound.

After seven years of consideration, the Bitterroot National Forest has approved a logging and burning project along the western slope of the Bitterroot Valley.

The Trump administration continues to demonstrate that its definition of “multiple use” on federal land does not include wildlife or habitat conservation.

More than a decade ago, the students leading the Environmental Advocates for Global and Local Ecological Sustainability (EAGLES) club at Arlee High School began inspiring change within their community.

From the Rockies to the Cascades to the Sierra Nevada, mountainsides across the West are sparsely covered by the snow that usually blankets the high country well into the summer.

Some people, namely outfitters and guides, are pushing the U.S. Forest Service to allow the use of chainsaws in wilderness areas, but many people and organizations oppose such a violation of the Wilderness Act.

Snowpack used to be Montana’s fluid money in the bank for summer. But, this year, Montana’s water savings account is in bad shape, along with that of the rest of the West.