When Brian Wheeler set out to install water quality monitoring equipment in the Big Hole River near Twin Bridges, Montana on June 28, he encountered an unexpected sight. In many parts of the river, ...

The allure of finding gold in Paradise Valley’s Mill Creek attracted placer miners to the stream as soon as the western boundary of the Crow Reservation was reduced by the federal government in 1882.

A Nevada-based mineral company has announced plans to develop a mine near the headwaters of the West Fork of the Bitterroot River in western Montana. If approved, the project could extract billions of ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks will continue its project to conserve native Yellowstone cutthroat trout in the upper Shields River watershed. The project is to address the declining ...

Bud Lilly started fly-fishing in the 1930s. So he’s had what you might call a reasonably good chance to figure out what flies work best on Montana trout streams. Ask Bud about his favorite flies, and ...

HELENA — Fishing restrictions due to drought will remain in place on three Montana trout streams for the foreseeable future, but state fisheries officials are cautiously optimistic that they won't ...

An illustration of a trout eating in a stream In the early hours of the geologic time clock, spanning millions of years, the ...

REUTERS - Climate changes that have made Montana streams much warmer over the last 30 years are helping invasive trout push their native cousins toward extinction, researchers said on Tuesday, saying ...

The view of Montana’s waterways will become a lot more detailed in the coming months, as nearly three dozen new stream gages are expected to come online by next summer. The Montana Department of ...