Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. My friends from Norway were astounded a few years ago as we drove through the forests of western ...

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte announced 130,00 forested acres have been placed in Department of Natural Resources and Conservation management since he took office. In a statement – Gianforte said ...

Over 4 million people flock to Yellowstone National Park every year, and for good reason. From the family-friendly waterfall trail along a lovely creek to the iconic Old Faithful geyser, the park is ...

Fighting over forests hasn’t worked. If it did, Montana loggers and sawmills would have all the timber we could saw. Environmentalists might have perfectly preserved wilderness as far as the eye could ...

HELENA — Montana forests managers will get a $20 million boost from the federal government to address the mountain pine beetle epidemic and general forest health. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ...

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KALISPELL - Western Montana's cold, wet spring has quickly given way to a hot, dry summer - and the region's forests are fast becoming tinder for summertime sparks.