On heels of 2021 legislative mandate, Montana hunters and trappers in 2025-26 harvested lowest numbers in a decade ...

Credit: Jon Trapp As wildfires burned 1.4 million acres before the first day of spring this year, federal firefighters ...

A new lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service starts with a straightforward claim: A proposed project to help whitebark pine ...

Calls to consolidate Forest Service, Interior firefighters stalled in 2025, but may revive as 2026 weather forecasts heat up ...

Ahead of November, founders of Protect Wyoming political action committee are combating poor voter turnout with appeal to ...

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Clouds over the Tetons: Grand Targhee Resort has always been regarded as being a family ski resort with great terrain. But in the era of destination luxury resorts, Targhee is poised to follow in its ...

One of the largest national forests in America, the Bridger-Teton is a landscape that rivals most national parks. Forest Service employees are often underpaid and overworked but they do their jobs on ...

An ancient limber pine on Pine Butte in northwest Montana with Ear Mountain in the backdrop. Credit: TNC Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front has long been characterized by ancient, gnarled limber pines ...

The sun was low and this Canada lynx moved through the shadows as he approached the shore of a frozen lake in southern Yukon. Its cousin, the Eurasian lynx, vanished from Great Britain about 1,300 ...

Two yearlings look up from playing on a fall 2024 day in Greater Yellowstone. The moose abuse case in southwest Wyoming is conjuring up a negative image of the state as it grapples with another animal ...

A westslope cutthroat trout in the Blackfoot River in western Montana. Montana’s state fish is the blackspotted cutthroat, an amalgamation of the westlope and the Yellowstone cutthroat, now known as ...