Feb. 18—County commissioners last week welcomed a reopening of dialogue with the Yaak Valley Forest Council, but said protecting area residents and property from wildfire remained a priority. "When we ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Far back in the high elevation wetlands of northwest Montana’s Yaak Valley — hidden away on the ...

Nov. 16—The Vital Ground Foundation expanded its Fowler Creek grizzly bear habitat conservation project this month with the acquisition of 64 acres in the Yaak Valley of far Northwest Montana. The ...

A youth spent on a grain farm north of Conrad had rooted Amy Pearson to life attuned with the seasonal shifts of the environment and landscape. Grown, she held close to those roots during seasonal ...

For Aaron Peterson, exploring the chattering Yaak River and wandering the forests surrounding it is no more complicated than clipping on cross-country skis outside his front door. Roaming this ...

In the rugged, remote northwest corner of Montana, the Yaak River Valley is a picture postcard of some yesteryear. Moose muse among the willows. Elk graze on the slopes. White-tailed deer browse in ...

The Yaak River flows through one of northwest Montana’s most beautiful valleys, hiding and then reappearing along the rural highway running north to south. The Yaak is small by Montana standards — a ...

Amidst the Biden administration’s untangling of malfeasance from the Trump years, the climate change crisis permeates much. Global warming is identified as one of the greatest threats to national ...

The small population of grizzly bears in the Yaak Valley rarely encounters humans or their influences, according to Rick Bass, an acclaimed writer and conservationist long associated with the Yaak.

(CN) — A federal judge in Montana blocked the U.S. Forest Service’s “Black Ram Project” within the Kootenai National Forest on Thursday, finding that the agency made a series of errors in authorizing ...

MISSOULA, Mont.— A federal judge late Thursday ruled in favor of conservation groups and scrapped the massive Black Ram logging project in Montana’s Kootenai National Forest. The project threatened a ...