environment

Andrew Posewitz writes, "There are very few promises that should cause hunters to abandon the writings of my father, and the vague promises of HB 635 certainly don’t rise to that threshold."

Under the agreement, Oregon’s Department of Forestry will expand buffers around habitable waterways throughout the Tillamook and Clatsop state forests.

The resort expansion has been mired in controversy after missteps by the Forest Service.

The owner of several parcels of land at the former Smurfit Stone mill site west of Missoula owes more than $500,000 in delinquent taxes to the county and area schools, along with penalties and interest, according to county records.

Research links cedar death to climate, details which trees are dying, which are surviving and shows how the species might be saved.

Shanti Devins writes, "I’m embracing Women’s History Month as a time to celebrate the contributions of women - great and small - that have often gone unrecognized or undervalued in the climate movement."

Missoula County will receive a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Forest Service to mitigate the risk of wildfire in the urban interface.

Decades of overfishing, dam building, water diversion, and other human actions have set the Lahontan cutthroat trout up for unrelenting population decline.

The bill would increase the cap on payments from $25,000 to $50,000 to open private lands for hunting access.

Les Castran writes, "Legislators recently introduced three bills that propose to eliminate appropriations of marijuana tax revenue dedicated to Habitat Montana and reallocate the funds to other programs."