TWIN BRIDGES – Brian Wheeler has spent a fair bit of the last six years wearing waders in the middle of the Big Hole River documenting river conditions and collecting samples of macroinvertebrates.

BOZEMAN, MT — The Montana Department of Environmental Quality is asking for photo and video evidence of algal blooms and other data from the Big Hole River before making an impairment determination.

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is asking for public input on a proposed conservation project in the Big Hole River drainage aimed at protecting native Westslope cutthroat trout.

BUTTE — The announcement Tuesday by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks struck some river watchdogs as puzzling. They wondered about FWP’s decision to reopen sections 3 and 4 of the Big Hole River to ...

Game wardens with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks cited four people for driving their side-by-sides, or off road vehicles, through an area of the Big Hole River that is a common spawning ground for ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. An environmental group is suing the Montana Department of Environmental Quality over its decision ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has announced that the full fishing closure on Section 1 of the Big Hole River, which is from Saginaw Bridge on Skinner Meadows Road to the confluence with the North ...

Anglers who favor the Big Hole River have expressed alarm in recent years about declining populations of brown and rainbow trout in a river renowned as a blue-ribbon trout stream. Those declines have ...

HELENA, Mont. — New brown trout regulations were approved on Friday by the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission for the Big Hole and Beaverhead rivers, effective immediately. The regulations are meant ...