U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Gov. Greg Gianforte celebrated U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s initial finding while environmentalists cast doubt on the state’s ability to manage the Montana state animal.

Conservationists are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the lack of a nationwide recovery plan for endangered wolves.

Conservation groups have filed a notice of their intent to sue the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the protection status of Montana’s Arctic Grayling, the last of the fish's population in the lower 48.

Wolverines will receive protections while the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service considers listing them under the Endangered Species Act.

Advocacy groups are asking the federal government to issue emergency protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, the only gray wolf population not on the Endangered Species List.

The Thick-leaf Bladderpod could be listed as an endangered species.

Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon filed a petition this week to remove federal protections on grizzlies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

The meltwater lednian and western glacier stoneflies require cold flowing water from glaciers or snowfields to survive. Scientists predict those cold-water sources could be gone by 2030 due to climate change.

Montana is petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to delist grizzlies in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, an area in and around Glacier National Park that extends southward almost to Missoula.

The lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity says the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service didn’t properly assess the impact of a rule opening 2.3 million acres in the National Wildlife Refuge system to hunting and fishing.