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

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 ...

Bitterroot National Forest officials on Friday publicly released the draft initial plan of operations for the Sheep Creek Project, a proposed exploratory mine for rare-earth metals.

Along the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, Bitterroot Valley Trapper Peak, near Sula, Montana. (Photo by Roger Peterson/ U.S. Forest Service) The Trump administration has backed off a logging ...

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 ...

Environmental groups have sued U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service leaders as well as Interior Secretary Deb Haaland over plans to allow more road-building in the Bitterroot ...

HAMILTON – The Bitterroot National Forest’s first update to its travel plan in four decades is getting mixed reviews. The national forest officially released its new plan Wednesday after nine years of ...

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 reached the ...

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 ...

A logging and clearcutting project in the Bitterroot National Forest will make it harder to hunt elk, inflates the amount of “old growth” that would be left, and will cost taxpayers $4.2 million, ...