Three wilderness study areas in Montana could lose that designation in legislation approved by the Senate Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday. The panel advanced more than a dozen bills, ...

Montana wilderness legislation historic both for its bipartisan support and the longstanding campaigns it completed was signed into law Friday night by President Barack Obama. Included with other ...

Senator Steve Daines received federal agency backing on Thursday for his bill to downgrade three remote Montana landscapes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dugan Lake in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana (Photo courtesy of Bill Schneider). In the late 1970s and early 1980s, I was a ...

As Montana changes, our world-class recreation and wildlife are under greater stress. If we are going to maintain our way of life, we must make conservation a greater priority.

Montana U.S. Sen. Steve Daines has restarted his efforts to rollback federal designations from some of Montana’s Wilderness Study Areas, seeking to turn them back to general public land management and ...

(CN) — A federal judge this week rejected a plan approved by the U.S. Forest Service to drop poison over Montana's Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in an effort to eradicate invasive rainbow trout and ...

HELENA, Mont. — A proposed resolution to release federal wilderness study lands sparked nearly two hours of passionate testimony in the Senate Energy Committee Tuesday. Sen. Tony Tezak, R-Ennis, the ...

The Montana Wilderness Association enjoyed a proud history, with leaders and members of conviction and long ties to the land. We all looked up to Loren Kreck, Cecil Garland, Doris Milner and Clif ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. An unusual federally designated wilderness, the Lee Metcalf Wilderness has four distinct units ...