A federal judge has found that the Flathead National Forest broke the law in a few more ways when it refused to consider the effect of certain roads on grizzly bears and bull trout.
While questions remain, members of the Missoula City Council on Wednesday set a public hearing over the use of funding from the open space bond to conserve more than 1,600 acres of private land northwest of the city.
Missoula federal district judge Donald Molloy announced that he would not consider a summary judgment ruling on whether the state of Montana was harming grizzly bears by allowing wolf trapping in areas where bears could be moving.
American Prairie continues to expand its land holdings in north-central Montana, announcing last week it now holds more than 475,000 acres of land after acquiring another 12,534 acres in Phillips County on two parcels.
Researchers suggest that protecting only 1.2% of the planet's surface could prevent a significant extinction crisis, at what they say could be a very low global economic cost.
Washington’s public lands commissioner, Hilary Franz, is voicing skepticism about a federal proposal to kill thousands of barred owls in the Pacific Northwest to help the threatened northern spotted owl.
A report by the Biden administration and U.S. Department of the Interior marks the first time the government has detailed the harms caused by 11 dams in the Snake and Columbia River basins.