Outdoors
What's there to do in the great outdoors? Here we've got a bevy of local outdoor activities and destinations to explore.
FWP prepares new Wolf Management Plan
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks will prepare an environmental impact statement and conduct public scoping on a pr…
Man charged with killing three young griz
A Ferndale man has been charged in federal court in Missoula with shooting and killing three young grizzly bears that he says killed his chickens and posed a threat to his family in May 2014.
Biologists find no surprises in bull trout counts
According to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 1 fisheries program manager Mark Deleray, there were no surprises in the 2014 bull trout redd counts for the Clark Fork, Flathead and Kootenai river drainages in…
Forest Service drops $10 mil image building plan
Forest Service officials announced Jan. 6 that it has decided not to spend $10 million on a five-year nationwide public relations campaign with the goal of branding itself as a public agency that cares about people…
Trail work valued at more than $640,000
Darby project brings the end of the roads
From an aerial view, the landscape around the two watersheds looks scarred. Dirt roads built by timber companies slash across the South Fork of Sleeping Child Creek and the Rye Creek drainage areas, leaving more th…
Avalanche conditions rated high
The Flathead National Forest issued an avalanche warning for Northwest Montana on Jan. 5.
Rare birds seen on annual Christmas bird count
A snowy owl was spotted by birdwatchers during the 41st annual Bigfork Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, Dec. 27.
Outdoor news
Wilderness talks
What does it take to move elk
On the last day of the 2014 general hunting season on the Rocky Mountain Front, a large number of the Sun River elk herd were still in the backcountry, not out on the windswept hills of the Sun River Wildlife Mana…
Historic land-use bill is top outdoors story
Record turnout on Big Mountain's slopes
Whitefish Mountain Resort reports it set a new visitor record on Dec. 28 when 7,900 skiers and snowboarders hit the slopes on Big Mountain, breaking the previo…
Lawsuit possible over Flathead Lake bridge project
The Community Association for North Shore Conservation, a newly formed conservation group in Bigfork, wants to see a bridge being built to Dockstader Island in…
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Living with wildlife
Two snowmobilers die crossing Seeley Lake
Two Montana men died after their snowmobiles fell through the ice on Seeley Lake on Dec. 26.
Tentative results from Swan Lake gillnetting reported
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks personnel have wrapped up gillnetting on Swan Lake for the year with some new discoveries to report. The project began in 2009 in an attempt to reduce the non-native lake trout popu…