Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. RED LODGE, Montana (AP) — Crawl from your warm sleeping bag out the tent door, into the darkness ...

Dugan Lake in the Beartooth Mountains of Montana (Photo courtesy of Bill Schneider). In the late 1970s and early 1980s, I was a young, hard-driving member of the Montana Wilderness Association Council ...

BILLINGS, Mont. - A HH60M Black Hawk medical evacuation helicopter from the Montana Army National Guard’s 1-189th General Support Aviation Battalion rescued three hikers from the Princess Lake area of ...

It’s time to expand the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness in Montana and Wyoming. 300,000 acres could be added to this iconic and rugged wilderness. Wilderness areas everywhere are under pressure from ...

With its sheer cliff walls, emerald blue lakes and waterfalls, the East Rosebud Canyon in the Beartooth Mountains would probably be a national park if it were located anywhere else, Bill Schneider ...

Spawning Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri). (Jacob W. Frank/NPS) (CN) — The U.S. Forest Service’s plan to swap rainbow trout with Yellowstone cutthroat trout in Montana’s ...

(CN) — A federal judge this week rejected a plan approved by the U.S. Forest Service to drop poison over Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in an effort to eradicate invasive rainbow trout and ...

HELENA, Mont. — A Missoula-based nonprofit that advocates for wilderness conservation is pushing back on a Forest Service plan to poison 46 miles of waterways within the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness ...

HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Army National Guard recently completed a high-altitude search and rescue mission to recover a missing 71-year-old hiker in the Stillwater Plateau region of the Beartooth ...

An environmental group on Wednesday sued the Forest Service to stop a fish poisoning project in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Area. In its complaint filed in U.S. District Court, Missoula-based ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It’s time to expand the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in Montana and Wyoming. Up to 300,000 acres ...