HAMILTON – The Bitterroot National Forest’s first update to its travel plan in four decades is getting mixed reviews. The national forest officially released its new plan Wednesday after nine years of ...

A group of conservation organizations said U.S. Critical Materials presented a “bad faith” proposal for “a mining plan” in ...

The company’s draft plan calls for redeveloping and widening three existing mine shafts created by past exploration of the mining claims, located in the headwaters of the West Fork of ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. To help elk, a 1987 Forest Plan set limits on road densities, but the limits ended up helping ...

An area of the Bitterroot National Forest where the Mud Creek Vegetation Management Project is slated to occur. In 2024, nonprofit groups sued over a different project in the Bitterroot National ...

Along the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, Bitterroot Valley Trapper Peak, near Sula, Montana. (Photo by Roger Peterson/ U.S. Forest Service) The Trump administration has backed off a logging ...

Environmental groups have sued U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service leaders as well as Interior Secretary Deb Haaland over plans to allow more road-building in the Bitterroot ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Bitterroot National Forest will move directly to Stage 2 Fire Restrictions on Friday, the highest level, without implementing Stage 1 Fire Restrictions because the fire ...

HAMILTON, Mont. — The Bitterroot National Forest is warning boaters that last summer's severe wind storm is impacting conditions on the Selway River corridor. During the storm, wind speeds reached the ...

Bitterroot National Forest officials are still waiting for details on a proposed rare earth mining project in the southern end of the Bitterroot Valley. “The Bitterroot National Forest has not ...

A logging and clearcutting project in the Bitterroot National Forest will make it harder to hunt elk, inflates the amount of “old growth” that would be left, and will cost taxpayers $4.2 million, ...