The company’s draft plan calls for redeveloping and widening three existing mine shafts created by past exploration of the mining claims, located in the headwaters of the West Fork of ...

A group of conservation organizations said U.S. Critical Materials presented a “bad faith” proposal for “a mining plan” in ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. To help elk, a 1987 Forest Plan set limits on road densities, but the limits ended up helping ...

An area of the Bitterroot National Forest where the Mud Creek Vegetation Management Project is slated to occur. In 2024, nonprofit groups sued over a different project in the Bitterroot National ...

Along the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, Bitterroot Valley Trapper Peak, near Sula, Montana. (Photo by Roger Peterson/ U.S. Forest Service) The Trump administration has backed off a logging ...

HAMILTON, Mont. - After a cool, wet June Ravalli County is feeling the heat of July. With temperatures in the 90s and humidity levels decreasing, fire danger is escalating. Thursday morning the fire ...

As the Trump administration continues to reduce federal oversight, a Canadian mining company has finally submitted an operations plan for a proposed rare-earth elements mine in the Bitterroot River ...

HAMILTON – The Bitterroot National Forest’s first update to its travel plan in four decades is getting mixed reviews. The national forest officially released its new plan Wednesday after nine years of ...

Environmental groups have sued U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service leaders as well as Interior Secretary Deb Haaland over plans to allow more road-building in the Bitterroot ...

STEVENSVILLE, Mont. — Through a public-private partnership the Bitterroot National Forest has acquired 120 acres of open space adjacent to the Bass Creek Recreation Area. On Wednesday evening the ...

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 million, ...