From the west to the east, Montanans were given a front row seat to the Aurora Borealis, also known as Northern Lights Friday night.
"This is an unusual and potentially historic event," said Clinton Wallace, director of NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks will host a series of public meetings on bear awareness, including how to minimize conflict.
The increased fees will help pay for parking lot improvements, "modernizing the winter cabin rental program," and active forest management around the Garnet area.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department reported an estimated 352 wolves in 43 packs, which included 24 breeding pairs at the end of last year.
Yellowstone’s waters have been a subject of intense study for well over a century. A new database is now available summarizing water chemistry results that date to the 1880s.
The forthcoming Montana Backcountry Discovery Route will visit classic small towns and take riders through some of the state's most scenic landscapes.
In 2023, more than 3.1 million visitors took advantage of the hiking, camping, fishing, swimming and site-seeing destinations available at Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks’ 55 parks.
In addition to the entrance, routes from West Thumb to Old Faithful (Craig Pass), West Thumb to Lake Village and Tower-Roosevelt to Tower Fall are scheduled to open.
While some late-arriving snow did help the mountains recover a little this spring, snowpack in most drainages in Eastern Washington and North Idaho didn’t reach normal levels before it started melting.
Montana State University in cooperation with Fish, Wildlife & Parks has made it easier for anglers to figure out what fish they hooked.
To access Table, the path leads right over 10,070-foot Red Mountain, which has wonderful views of the area, including the Tobacco Roots, Pioneers, Pintlars, Flint Creek Range and more.
Seven grizzly bears were shot and killed by hunters in Montana in 2023. Grizzly expert Chris Servheen believes such shootings subsequently deemed self-defense should be subject to formal review.
The gate opens at 8:30 a.m. Shooting will begin at 9 a.m.
It seems likely that the motorized crowd will avoid losing significant amounts of access. But backcountry skiers and snowboarders will probably not see their favorite spots set aside as non-motorized.
The filmmakers and guests will hold a discussion after the film, including the film’s director and producer Maaike Middleton, executive producers Dan Sullivan and Doug Peacock and Daniel Kinka.
An outbreak of gastrointestinal (GI) illness occurred in Montana in the spring of 2023, when 51 people got sick after eating raw or only partially cooked morels at a restaurant.
Red Lodge Mountain Fuel Reduction Project aims to reduce fire risk and improve access for fire response. Work includes forest thinning, harvest, prescribed burning and construction of temporary roads.
MONTANA UNTAMED: When it comes to accessing public lands, the Bullwhacker Road dispute south of Havre has been one of the longest simmering and most contorted in Eastern Montana.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is taking comments on a draft environmental assessment for the project which could start in July on private, state and Bureau of Land Management property.
The states signed a similar Tri-State Memorandum of Agreement in 2017, but a new way of counting bears – the integrated population model, or IPM – is now being utilized by wildlife biologists, requiring the update.
These restrictions will go into effect on Saturday, May 25, which is the first day of Yellowstone’s boating and fishing season. The season wraps up on Oct. 31.
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A multi-million-dollar investment in recovering endangered pallid sturgeon in the Yellowstone River drainage may have started paying dividends last year.
The water flows on the Missouri River at the Wolf Point gauging station downstream steadily climbed from around 7,660 cubic feet per second on April 27 to 18,000 cfs by May 3.
Cutthroat have steadily rebounded in the lake following the Park Service’s nearly two decades of lake trout gillnetting, with intensive focus on netting dating back to 2012.
Is Yellowstone heating up, or cooling down? How much heat is radiating away from the surface in Yellowstone’s thermal areas, and how does it change with time? Thermal infrared remote sensing can provide estimates of these parameters.
In April, FWP asked for public comment on an environmental assessment for its first prairie dog conservation lease on land owned by the 71 Ranch, which is based in Martinsdale.
Anglers interested in an update on local streams should attend the Magic City Fly Fishers meeting at the Billings Rod and Gun Club on May 7 for a presentation by Bryan Giordano.
A coalition of counties and the city of Missoula have applied for a federal grant to fund a planning and feasibility study for the proposed Parks to Passes Trail.
Bureau of Land Management officials signed off on an environmental assessment in April, approving the primitive road from Left Coulee to access the monument’s 35,500-acre Bullwhacker region.