Jerry Oconnell writes, "A UM poll in 2022 found that 83% of Montana voters support the BCSA. Unfortunately, Senator Daines does not yet support the BCSA."
Mandela Van Eaden writes, "It’s time that the BLM manage our lands for all Montana-made natural resources and activities – including wildlife, hunting, angling, outdoor recreation, and more – not just oil and gas."
With funding approved and a decision to purchase Marshall Mountain close at hand, advocates of doing so have praised the opportunity as a chance to secure prime habitat that's home to a range of imperiled species, from wolverine to the Norther alligator lizard.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has again introduced a bill that aims to create a permanent bison program within the Department of Interior to help bolster tribal involvement in the restoration and management of the creatures on tribal lands.
The multimillion-dollar claim by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife on Friday arrives after weeks of advocacy over dam repairs that killed at least 550,000 Pacific lamprey.
After learning that the Flathead National Forest repaired a sewage lagoon at Holland Lake last summer without admitting the problem, the Missoula County Public Health Department is requiring that the Forest Service go back and do it right.
Calling it a legacy project that only comes along once in a generation, the Missoula City Council and Missoula County commissioners on Wednesday approved tapping into the Open Space Bond to purchase 480 acres on Marshall Mountain.
Researchers hoping to gain understanding of future groundwater volume in the arid Colorado Plateau looked back nearly 12,000 years to see how higher temperatures affected monsoon rains.
Colorado River officials plan to expand a conservation program next year that pays farmers and ranchers to use less water. But questions remain about some of the proposed ideas and the program’s overall efficacy.
New technology requires minerals seldom used before, some of which can be found in Montana’s mine waste. But some appear eager to change Montana’s regulations that would oversee new mine development.