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Volunteers showed up to take part and help clean up the banks of the Clark Fork River in Missoula on Sunday.

Collaborating closely with MFWP’s state fish geneticist and research scientists, the team furnishes genetic and genomics data, analyses and decision support pertaining to various species.

Conservationists say salmon hatcheries on the Columbia River are harming wild fish populations and the species that need them for food.

A new memo from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is raising concern about the infrastructure at the Glen Canyon Dam and its ability to deliver water downstream should levels at Lake Powell continue to decline.

Experts fear recent storms across the Western U.S. have not done enough to bring drought relief to many mountain ranges.

At the request of a Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes company, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to keep more water in Flathead Lake this year.

Hydropower generated for electricity from Oregon and Washington dams fell to historically low levels last year, and experts expect it could drop further by year’s end.

After a March when most locations saw lower than average snowfall and warmer temperatures, the snowpack in Montana remains far below average.

A bill that would have allowed coal mines to violate water quality standards if excess pollution was only for a limited amount of time won’t become law in Montana, according to plaintiffs who challenged it and another related bill.

Advocates for a tule elk population living in the north San Francisco Bay area urged a Ninth Circuit panel Monday to revive their fight over the National Park Service’s management of the elk during a drought.