When the fire danger is "moderate", fires can start from most accidental causes, adding that if a fire starts in open, dry ...

The Bitterroot National Forest recently released the draft decision on the forest travel plan. The proposal has already met with opposition from some forest users, but overall the proposal is the ...

Data shows Ravalli County, Mont., an area seeing explosive population and development growth, is at higher wildfire risk than ...

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 ...

HAMILTON, Mont. — The Bitterroot National Forest is warning boaters that last summer's severe wind storm is impacting conditions on the Selway River corridor. During the storm, wind speeds ...

The Bitterroot National Forest is hitting the brakes on a 4-year-old proposal to use thinning and prescribed burning to remove vegetation across a vast swath of the Bitterroot Valley following ...

The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit on September 9th against the Bitterroot National Forest seeking to stop the Gold Butterfly logging and burning project.

Lightning ignited three small fires in the Bitterroot National Forest on Saturday night, and dispatchers were fielding a steady stream of reports of smoke. The Sula Peak Lookout reported an 8-acre ...

A proposed timber project on the Bitterroot National Forest was one of 13 selected to receive state funding as part of a program to increase the pace and scale of efforts to improve forest and ...

A Bitterroot National Forest spokesman said the Forest Service does not comment on pending litigation.

The groups say the Bitterroot National Forest management plan amendments would allow road building harmful to protected species. Environmentalists went to federal court Tuesday in hopes of ...

The Bitterroot National Forest is eager to welcome new employees with a wide variety of positions across the forest. Teri Garr, the offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' has ...