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

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

MISSOULA, Mont. — Bitterroot National Forest will begin prescribed burning operations in April. There are plans to burn more than 9,200 acres this spring. Forest officials say smoke may be ...

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 ...

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.

The nearly 1.6 million-acre Bitterroot National Forest has grown slightly — by 12.5 acres, to be exact — with the recent acquisition of land straddling its eponymous river in Sula. Officials ...

The Bitterroot National Forest will be rising the fire danger from “Low” to “Moderate” on Tuesday. Mom who was dead for 45 minutes during child birth wakes up in hospital to find out she ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...