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Crews are attacking two fires in the Bitterroot National Forest.The Dominic Point Fire is burning 28 acres, 8 miles east of ...
A Bitterroot National Forest Service fuels reduction project implemented seven years ago prevented a wildfire from growing ...
The Bitterroot National Forest reports there have been more than 800 confirmed lightning strikes on the forest last week.
The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation alongside Ravalli Electric Cooperative, U.S. Forest Service in Bitterroot National Forest, and Rava ...
Crews are battling several wildfires in the Bitterroot Valley after weekend storms caused more than 500 confirmed lightning ...
Montanans are well aware of the asbestos disaster caused by the vermiculite mine in Libby that turned the town into a ...
Center for Biological Diversity: 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 ...
The Bitterroot National Forest’s new Darby district ranger, Erick Winthers, has worked on other national forests across the West and he’s never seen anything quite like it.
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.
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 ...