U.S. Forest Service

Federal agencies are figuring out how to treat masks on public land in the wake of Gov. Greg Gianforte’s repeal of Montana’s statewide mask mandate....

Earlier this week, Gov. Greg Gianforte announced one of the first timber sales to go through a state-federal partnership this year. The amount of timber...

On Wednesday, the Kootenai National Forest signaled that it's moving forward on a sprawling and controversial logging project. The U.S. Forest Service...

State and federal officials say a large mining clean-up project in Montana is nearly complete and open for recreation. At the Upper Blackfoot Mining...

State and federal officials say a large mining clean up project in Montana is nearly complete and open for recreation.

The U.S. Forest Service this week proposed closing hunting with firearms in part of a controversial pinch-point where bison migrate out of Yellowstone...

The Custer Gallatin National Forest is moving forward with two out of three proposed land exchanges on the southern side of the Crazy Mountains.

Wildlife managers across the region noted a drastic increase in the number of people recreating in bear country this year, but that spike didn’t lead to...

Forest managers across federal lands in Montana are intentionally setting fire to piles of underbrush, slash, and anything that could fuel a future wildfire. Controlled burns were halted this past spring due to concern that smoke could aggravate COVID-19 cases, but now as cases reach new highs, forest managers are addressing their backlog of burns.

A nine square mile wildfire burning in the Beaverhead Deerlodge National Forest is estimated to be 75 percent contained as of Nov. 2.