Flathead National Forest officials announced reservoir waters and some dispersed camping areas will be open for recreational use beginning Sept. 1

Tasty or not, and despite my willingness to try just about any food, I can’t imagine enjoying opossum

Midweek rain showers will further mitigate fire behavior, but long-term forecasts call for a hot and dry fall

Park officials are soliciting public comment on the plan, which comes on the heels of a tumultuous year for bison and people who hunt them

The least expensive path to teardrop heaven is to build your own, but this takes time and you have to know your way around the shop

The community-led plan seeks to guide the future of development in and around Bigfork while promoting outdoor access and sustainable tourism

The 95,412-acre Black Ram timber sale was proposed on a segment of the Kootenai National Forest that is home to the imperiled Cabinet-Yaak grizzly population

Skydiving aficionados from around the nation gathered last week in a meadow north of Marion for the 56th annual Lost Prairie Boogie

Park officials are in the third summer of piloting a vehicle reservation system for major park entrances and is gathering feedback to inform next summer’s strategy

Hucks, Flathead cherries and the arrival of improbable peaches so delightful they are treated like the return of Santa Claus seems wonderful enough

Fisheries managers plan to remove non-native rainbow trout from the alpine lake using a fish toxicant and replace them with genetically pure strains of westslope cutthroat and bull trout

Two months after the landmark environmental trial concluded, a judge has ruled the plaintiffs have a constitutional right to a clean and healthy environment; AG will appeal ruling

The agencies will continue commitments to the protection, presentation and management of cultural and natural heritage along shared transboundary places and co-stewardship with Indigenous people

The last major fee rate change occurred in 2007; officials say the increases are necessary to match nearby campgrounds outside the park that provide similar services

Setters, especially setters from hunting lines, tend toward inexplicable hardheadedness at times