Conservation

The disputed logging project in northern Montana has been underway since the project was authorized last spring. Conservationists sued in January 2025.

As drought and the summer heat causes streams to dwindle, water will once again be released from Silver Lake to bolster Warm Springs Creek and the upper Clark Fork River.

The estimated number of wolves in Montana decreased slightly in 2024, but Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is proposing more wolf hunting and trapping to push the statewide population down to 450.

Mount Graham red squirrels live only in the Pinaleño Mountains of southeastern Arizona, where their protected habitat has dwindled for decades.

The fishing restriction prohibit angling on the designated stretches of river from 2 p.m. to midnight each day, and will remain in place until conditions improve.

A Missoula nursery offers trees and shrubs such as cottonwoods and larches, flowering and fruiting shrubs such as golden currant and service berry, and wildflowers such as columbine.

Michael Garrity writes, "The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act protects the environment, fights climate change, and saves taxpayers millions of dollars in logging subsidies simply by designating existing roadless areas as Wilderness."

Missoula federal district judge Dana L. Christensen heard arguments on whether five conservation organizations were likely to win their lawsuit against the Missoula BLM Office regarding a series of logging projects on BLM land in the Garnet Mountains.

The bill will allow farmers to exchange land and water rights with urban developers to decrease water use and increase affordable housing.

More than 250 million acres could have been sold under a proposal by GOP US Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.