The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center has expanded an avalanche warning to include the Centennial Range near Island ...

The Gallatin County Commission weighed in Tuesday on the fate of U.S. Forest Service employees, denouncing recent layoffs and voicing support for a better-staffed Custer Gallatin National Forest.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Gallatin County Commission weighed in Tuesday on the fate of U.S. Forest Service ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order of March 1 demanded immediate expansion of American timber production. The order came on the heels of the Trump administration’s firing in February of ...

Environmental groups had sued over Montana livestock grazing allotments that they said could cause conflicts with grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. A federal judge on Thursday ...

I’m standing on my Ski-Doo snowmobile somewhere in the Venn diagram that entwines Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. As the engine ...

MONTANA - The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center has issued an avalanche warning for Cooke City, Lionhead, and Island Park areas due to high avalanche danger. The warning highlights very ...

With the recent powerful winter storms behind us and more mild springlike conditions in the forecast, Montana land managers are picking up the pace of prescribed burns. The Bureau of Land Management ...

PJ Benson was preparing for his fourth season working on the trail crew at Schafer Meadows, a backcountry ranger station in the Spotted Bear Ranger District of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area ...

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HAMILTON, Mont. — The Bitterroot National Forest is warning boaters that last summer's severe wind storm is impacting conditions on the Selway River corridor. During the storm, wind speeds ...