Custer Gallatin National Forest

The judge recommended denying advocacy groups’ claims that the Forest Service is mishandling public access to four trails.

The Custer Gallatin National Forest finalized a plan on Friday that will guide forest management over 3 million acres in Montana and South Dakota for the next 10 to 15 years.

A land exchange could move the Custer Gallatin National Forest closer to solving an issue of fractured land ownership in the southern Crazy Mountains.

Recreationists and hunters are being encouraged to avoid the Line Creek Trail outside of Red Lodge after a hunter encountered a grizzly bear in the area over the weekend.

For the second straight day helicopters and air tankers working the 64-acre Shedhorn Fire in the Custer Gallatin National Forest have been grounded because of drones.

A Montana man pleaded not guilty today to sparking the 30,000-acre Robertson Draw Fire south of Red Lodge last month.

Update 5:30 p.m. Fire crews continue to patrol the containment lines on the Robertson Draw and Crooked Creek Fires burning in the Custer Gallatin National Forest in south-central Montana.

Updated 5:30 p.m. Robertson Draw Fire Fire crews continue containment efforts on the Robertson Draw and Crooked Creek fires burning in the Custer...

The Robertson Draw Fire burning 24,273 acres south of Red Lodge has been identified as human caused, according to the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office. The fire is 0% contained.

The Robertson Draw Fire burning south of Red Lodge in the Custer Gallatin National Forest is seeing increased fire activity Tuesday afternoon as temperatures approach record highs. The fire was estimated at 2,000 acres as of this morning.