Conservation

Joseph Scalia III writes, "Many Southwest Montanans have already and irreversibly made up their minds about whether to side with its “multiple use,” as espoused by the Gallatin Forest Partnership."

Even though a vast majority of the American public supports the federal Public Lands Rule, the Trump administration wants to rescind it.

A working group started laying out their desires for what trails and roads they want to see in the Fish Creek State Park and Wildlife Management Area.

Amid challenges like dwindling salmon, noise pollution and climate change, the Pacific Northwest is wrestling with how to protect its most iconic inhabitants.

Two grizzlies might be either injured or dead after being shot by hunters northeast of Seeley Lake.

Mike Garrity writes, "Decades of logging, road building and motorized recreation have fragmented grizzly habitat and limited recovery.

While visitors may not notice a significant impact in the short term, others say the shutdown is holding parks and their staff back from meeting their mission to preserve the land and serve the public.

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

Mike Garrity writes, "Unfortunately, the governor and delegation appear locked into outdated, unscientific, and unsupported false assumptions that wild Yellowstone bison have transmitted brucellosis to cattle. They have not."

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