Pattee Canyon

Missoula County Sheriff’s Captain and Chief Deputy Coroner Bill Burt testified at the Gomez Murder Trial on Friday morning about the day that Charlie Ann Wyrick’s body was found near the Pattee Canyon Recreation area.

Missoula County Attorney Kirsten Pabst delivered her opening statement on Thursday afternoon before the jury and District Judge Karen Townsend, in which she laid out the timeline of the final hours of Charlie Ann Wyrick.

The Barmeyer family in Missoula is working with the Five Valleys Land Trust and the city of Missoula on a potential open space land donation in the Pattee Canyon area.

One mountain lion suspected of killing sheep and goats in the Pattee Canyon area has been shot and another lion has been trapped.

The Pattee Canyon Area is one of the more popular recreation areas where conflicts between dogs as well as conflict between people and dogs have become more frequent.

What was a controlled burn quickly turned into an out of control fire Thursday in the 5000 block of Pattee Canyon Road in Missoula.