Outdoors

Out of Bounds

The Queen is Dead

Twenty-eight years makes for an old bear, but 399 defied age

Wildlife

Chronic Wasting Disease Found for First Time in Wild Flathead Valley Deer

Wildlife officials confirmed the disease in a symptomatic buck at the Flathead County Landfill. The detection signals the neurological disease’s first known occurrence in wild deer populations in the Flathead, even as it has gained prevalence in the Libby area since 2019 and was detected in a local game farm in 2020.

Montana

Going Deep

In Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness, a team of cavers reaches new depths in Tears of the Turtle, the nation’s deepest known limestone cave. How much lower does it go?

Out of Bounds

Voting for the Outdoors

If you are a hunter or angler, access is the most important issue affecting these sports

Glacier Park

Winter Weather Closes Section of Going-to-the-Sun Road

Citing hazardous ice conditions and winter weather, Glacier National Park officials on Thursday morning temporarily closed the alpine highway to motorists between Avalanche Creek and Jackson Glacier Overlook

Timber

In Northwest Montana, Private Timber is Betting the Forest on Public Access Protection

Land and wildlife managers, timber companies, hunters, and conservationists have stitched together a checkerboard of vulnerable working forests, using easements to protect private timberland from development. With a critical piece of the puzzle coming up for final land board approval, advocates say a new model of forest management is taking shape.

Out of Bounds

Cost of Climate Change

Now fire seasons across the West are starting earlier and lasting longer than ever before