HAMILTON, Mont. - Many popular trails in the Bitterroot National Forest will be cleaner and easier to access after this weekend. National Trails Day is a time to celebrate our trails by breaking a ...

As the Trump administration continues to reduce federal oversight, a Canadian mining company has finally submitted an ...

HAMILTON, Mont.— Conservation groups urged the U.S. Forest Service today to disclose more information about a Canadian company’s mining exploration plans in Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest, set ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Bitterroot National Forest invites visitors to the park for a relaxing holiday without fireworks. Officials say park visitors can help ensure the safety and enjoyment of themselves ...

An area of the Bitterroot National Forest where the Mud Creek Vegetation Management Project is slated to occur. In 2024, nonprofit groups sued over a different project in the Bitterroot National ...

HAMILTON — The long wait for the Bitterroot National Forest’s updated travel plan is over. After more than seven years of public involvement, a record 13,400 comments and thousands of hours of ...

The nearly 1.6 million-acre Bitterroot National Forest has grown slightly — by 12.5 acres, to be exact — with the recent acquisition of land straddling its eponymous river in Sula. Officials from the ...

The Gold Butterfly logging and burning project, east of Corvallis, Montana, is in wolverine and grizzly bear habitat and bull trout critical habitat in the Sapphire Mountains on the Bitterroot ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. To help elk, a 1987 Forest Plan set limits on road densities, but the limits ended up helping ...

The Bitterroot National Forest today formally withdrew its decision authorizing the Gold Butterfly Project. Friends of the Bitterroot and the Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit on July 10th ...

It is great to see that the Bitterroot Travel Plan decision is focused on maintaining the wilderness characteristics of wilderness study areas. However, the decision to restrict mountain bikes from ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A logging and clearcutting project in the Bitterroot National Forest will make it harder to hunt ...