Environment

The number of people staffing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has dropped by 3,600 during President Donald Trump’s second term.

Consumer advocates worry that unchecked wildfire spending will drive up electricity rates across the West.

Three organizations have asked the courts to require Montana’s wildlife agency to justify why it’s not using its water rights to keep more water in the upper Beaverhead River for fish.

The Bitterroot Front Project was a plan for road projects, logging and burning across 144,000 acres or 225 square miles, from the northern boundary with the Lolo National Forest south to the West Fork of the Bitterroot River.

Stormwater runoff in the Pattee Creek drainage has revealed a number of pollutants, which the City of Missoula hopes to address in a proposed bio-filtration project.

Trout Unlimited is looking to a federal grant to reconstruct a century-old diversion dam on the Clark Fork River to improve the passage of fish, improve irrigation and enhance boater safety.

A long-range plan for the National Elk Refuge released Friday afternoon proposes continuing to feed elk for the long haul in the Jackson Herd, even as deadly chronic wasting disease propagates across the landscape.

As Americans are scrambling to take advantage of a final opportunity to oppose the repeal of the Roadless Rule, some organizations are asking the Trump administration for more time.

Yellowstone National Park will conduct an invasive species removal project in the northern part of the park as part of an ongoing conservation effort to preserve native Yellowstone Cutthroat trout.

Crews are nearing completion of a new wildlife underpass in southeast Idaho after the public, nonprofit agencies, conservation groups and government agencies pushed for years to protect migrating wildlife herds and drivers.