When Brian Wheeler set out to install water quality monitoring equipment in the Big Hole River near Twin Bridges, Montana on June 28, he encountered an unexpected sight. In many parts of the river, ...

The allure of finding gold in Paradise Valley’s Mill Creek attracted placer miners to the stream as soon as the western boundary of the Crow Reservation was reduced by the federal government in 1882.

HELENA — Fishing restrictions due to drought will remain in place on three Montana trout streams for the foreseeable future, but state fisheries officials are cautiously optimistic that they won't ...

It’s just before 8 a.m. on August 6 when the boat reaches the first gillnet of the day. I’m on Swan Lake volunteering with a recently revived effort to knock down the lake’s invasive lake trout ...

Duncan Adams Lee Newspapers Mar 6, 2025 Mar 6, 2025 BUTTE — The trout returned to Silver Bow Creek but no one said life would be easy. The territory served by Caleb Uerling, a fisheries biologist for ...

Bud Lilly started fly-fishing in the 1930s. So he’s had what you might call a reasonably good chance to figure out what flies work best on Montana trout streams. Ask Bud about his favorite flies, and ...

The groups say the Bitterroot National Forest management plan amendments would allow road building harmful to protected species. Environmentalists went to federal court Tuesday in hopes of stopping ...

An illustration of a trout eating in a stream In the early hours of the geologic time clock, spanning millions of years, the earth was covered with a gaseous atmosphere and warm shallow seas ...