BLM has tried public land sales before. The Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 directed the agency to identify ...

State, Private and Tribal Forestry is serving a combined territory of Region 1 and Region 4. Jen Hensiek is listed as the ...

Even in these subfreezing conditions, pikas don’t hibernate during the winter. They live beneath the snowpack, navigating ...

The high-pitched mountain dwellers helping scientists track climate change ...

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If passed, new bill would add sections of Madison and Gallatin Rivers to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System ...

Mountain Journal is dedicated to providing meaningful, fact-based journalism. We serve and inform the public about a key region that belongs to us all.

In 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied further federal protections to wolves in Western states, prompting lawsuit ...

Andrew Hansen has early memories of how poignantly people can impact the environment. He grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania with a river running through it. The water was polluted by an upstream paper ...

The U.S. Forest Service will abandon its nine regional offices as its parent Department of Agriculture consolidates out of Washington, D.C., according to a memo released Thursday by Agriculture ...

The fog of reorg: As USDA looks into reorganizing its Forest Service again, some are questioning the efficacy. And intent. Here, fog rolls through the forest in Lamar Valley, Yellowstone National Park ...

Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front has long been characterized by ancient, gnarled limber pines with distinctively broad crowns and wavering limbs, carved over centuries by the harsh conditions unique to ...