environment

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.

Multiple agencies conducted a rescue in Glacier National Park's Avalanche Lake area for three people who fell into the gorge

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.

The permit does not authorize any new activities or expansion of the existing facilities.

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."

The amount of forest with problems is only a small fraction of the overall 22 million acres state officials looked at, but it is slightly above the 10-year average.

After a warm, dry spring and early summer that hammered the winter snowpack, Montana’s rivers are already showing signs of stress with two months of summer to go.

Gov. Greg Gianforte and USFS Chief Tom Schultz met at Davis Gulch to sign a 20-year “shared stewardship agreement.”