The Montana delegates say they would oppose efforts to divert Land and Water Conservation Fund support away from acquisitions or otherwise limit public land access

The easement on 53,000 acres of private timberland in Flathead and Lincoln counties would preserve public access and timber production. The project received unanimous commissioner support and now requires approval by the land board.

The Fish and Wildlife Commission on Thursday blended recommendations from state wildlife managers with a legislative mandate to manage wolves at a “lower yet sustainable” population level. A majority of public comment opposed measures to reduce the statewide wolf population.

GOP leaders attending the Western Caucus Policy Summit on the shore of Lake McDonald on Wednesday were shuttled past throngs of demonstrators who oppose the Trump administration’s initiatives to reshape the National Park Service

Despite a 3.4% dip in visitors during the month of July, overall year-to-date visitation remains on pace to exceed last year, which was the park’s second-busiest on record

The nonprofit Climate Smart Glacier Country is piecing together a plan to improve local flood readiness and offset the increasing cost of insurance for homeowners — even after the Trump Administration terminated its primary funding source

The ruling against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service comes as western states, including Montana and Idaho, pursue more aggressive policies for hunting and trapping wolves, thereby undermining the species’ recovery

Facing a $23.4 million price tag for a recreation easement that would preclude private development and preserve public access on 600 acres of Montana school trust land at the head of Whitefish Lake, local stakeholders are left wondering: What’s it worth to save Smith Lake?

The small plane crashed Saturday morning off the runway at Ryan Field, southeast of West Glacier

The rulemaking petition is the latest effort to undo safeguards protecting Lake Koocanusa from a mining contaminant called selenium, which is leaching out of B.C. coal mines and into the international watershed

Cyrus Western assured community leaders that the Columbia Falls Aluminum Company property and other Superfund sites in the "Mountains and Plains" region he now oversees would be protected even as the Trump administration fires thousands of EPA employees and fundamentally reshapes the agency’s mission

A new conservation easement with the Flathead Land Trust will protect 40 acres northeast of Bigfork, connecting a corridor from Swan Hill to the Swan River

A spate of recent bear encounters underscore the state agency’s new messaging approach when reporting encounters between humans and grizzly bears, including online tools to promote awareness

The five-day event is a summer staple in the Flathead Valley, featuring dressage, cross-country, and show jumping while attracting Olympic-level riders from across the country

After an angler hooked a brown trout upstream of Pressentine Bridge last month, officials are trying to determine how the nonnative species ended up in a river system, as well as the extent of its invasion