Conservation

Last week was another major deadline for lawmakers to pass bills out of one house and send them to the other. Mara Silvers, Shaylee Ragar and Ellis Juhlin discuss the politics and policies inside the Montana Statehouse as lawmakers enter the last few weeks of the session.

As more lands become developed in the Gallatin Valley, some wildlife habitat is being lost.

U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana is proposing legislation that he says would ease restrictions on some federally managed lands in the state. But the bill is being met with opposition from public lands advocacy groups.

The Fort Belknap Indian Community is training its young people to collect native grass seeds and restore their lands into the future.

President Biden announced his conservation goal to address climate change shortly after taking office. Earlier this year, he rolled out several executive orders related to it, including a pause on new oil and gas leases on public land.

Sagebrush grasslands in southwest Montana have been disappearing for decades, putting ranchers and wildlife in jeopardy. A project is aiming to reverse…

The Bitterroot National Forest banned the creation of new, bolted rock climbing routes earlier this month, forcing climbers and conservationists to...

Responses to a survey released Thursday show strong support for increasing taxes in Montana to fund conservation projects. At the same time, respondents…

As Bozeman and its bedroom communities continue to grow, developers have started moving into prime farmland in Gallatin Valley. Farmers and ranchers there…

Montana’s working lands, wildlife, state parks and trails face tens of millions of dollars in unmet funding needs, according to a new report commissioned…