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 ...

Three wilderness study areas in Montana could lose that designation in legislation approved by the Senate Natural Resources ...

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

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, the Montana Wilderness Association released the results of the Picture Wild Montana fifth annual photo contest. The results are littered with local talent, including two first-place winners ...