BOZEMAN, MT — The Montana Department of Environmental Quality is asking for photo and video evidence of algal blooms and other data from the Big Hole River before making an impairment determination.

BUTTE — The announcement Tuesday by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks struck some river watchdogs as puzzling. They wondered about FWP’s decision to reopen sections 3 and 4 of the Big Hole River to ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Two conservation groups are petitioning the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to ...

DILLON, Mont. — The fishing closure on the Big Hole River, stretching from the North Fork of the Big Hole River to Dickie Bridge, has been lifted due to improved water flows. This section is now the ...

Anglers who favor the Big Hole River have expressed alarm in recent years about declining populations of brown and rainbow trout in a river renowned as a blue-ribbon trout stream. Those declines have ...

Montana’s environmental regulator has denied a petition to designate the Big Hole River as impaired by nitrogen and phosphorus, throwing a wrench in environmentalists’ efforts to put the blue-ribbon ...

The public has the chance to weigh in on the Fish and Wildlife Commission's proposed amendments to the Big Hole and Beaverhead River rules at two public hearings in March: • Dillon: Wednesday, March ...

02/02/2010 Our long-time friend and mentor, George Grant, would turn over in his grave if he could see the direction that the organization he formed in 1988, the Big Hole River Foundation, is heading.

HELENA, Mont. — New brown trout regulations were approved on Friday by the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission for the Big Hole and Beaverhead rivers, effective immediately. The regulations are meant ...

Submit any photos, videos or drone images of algae blooms on the Big Hole River. Already submitted or collected by the state. That’s according to the petitioners. Submit data about the aquatic ...