wildlife

As you enjoy the great outdoors, keep your eyes peeled for a plant that could turn a peaceful hike into a serious emergency—this one’s not just a nuisance.

If you are looking for that once-in-a-lifetime hunt in Montana, you better hurry!

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Changes to Missoula County's solid waste regulations will widen the bear buffer zone around the city limits and phase in the requirement of bear-resistant trash bins over the next three years.

Dave Stalling writes, "Delisting should be based on science, not on politics driven by a disdain for predators."

The act would add about 78,000 acres of wilderness to the Bob Marshall, Scapegoat and Mission Mountains wilderness areas and create two recreation management areas for snowmobiling and mountain biking.

Mike Garrity writes, "Biden’s climate pledges are meaningless unless his Forest Service ceases its ever-increasing and illegal logging."

Richard Manning writes, "At the very least, the lands’ management needs to be forcibly amputated from the parks department and entrusted to a separate, stand-alone entity run by restoration ecologists."

Two environmental groups are suing the state of Montana for approving additional wolf trapping that could harm or kill grizzly bears.

While one should never say never, fire officials are feeling optimistic that the end of the 2023 fire season may be at hand.