MISSOULA, Mont. — Bitterroot National Forest reminds the public of the annual climbing closure north of Hamilton. The annual climbing closure for the Mill Creek Canyon area started Feb. 1 to let cliff ...

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, ...

HAMILTON – Come next summer, all-terrain vehicle riders will have something that they haven’t had in a very long time in the Bitterroot National Forest. Nearly 50 miles of trail in two loops are ...

HAMILTON – Firefighters chased three new lightning starts on the Bitterroot National Forest on Tuesday, while the Chrandal Creek fire southwest of Darby grew from 90 to 1,000 acres overnight. The new ...

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 ...

HAMILTON, Mont.— Conservation groups urged the U.S. Forest Service today to disclose more information about a Canadian company’s mining exploration plans in Montana’s Bitterroot National Forest, set ...

It is great to see that the Bitterroot Travel Plan decision is focused on maintaining the wilderness characteristics of wilderness study areas. However, the decision to restrict mountain bikes from ...

WEST FORK – Mark Rhodes has some very simple advice for the rookies preparing to spend their first summer in a lookout tower on the Bitterroot National Forest. Before they make that report on the ...

The Gold Butterfly logging and burning project, east of Corvallis, Montana, is in wolverine and grizzly bear habitat and bull trout critical habitat in the Sapphire Mountains on the Bitterroot ...

HAMILTON — The long wait for the Bitterroot National Forest’s updated travel plan is over. After more than seven years of public involvement, a record 13,400 comments and thousands of hours of ...

HAMILTON, Mont. (AP) — An off-rood vehicle group, a retired U.S. Forest Service planner and a former logger have filed appeals to a proposed timber sale in the ...