Of ice and fire: “I was not blessed like saints of old, many of whom found a contemplative vocation at an early age,” our ...

A snowmobiler died in an avalanche near the Montana-Idaho border over the weekend. It is Idaho’s first avalanche fatality of ...

With wildfires already raging across country, consolidated wildland fire service critics ask what problems it would solve ...

Steve Pearce, a New Mexico Republican, has come under fire from conservation groups for formerly calling for the divestment of federal land.

Amanda Eggert has covered energy, environment and public lands issues for Montana Free Press since 2021. Her work has received multiple awards, including the Mark Henckel Outdoor Writing Award from ...

In some Montana hunting districts, up to one-third of animals have contracted chronic wasting disease, the fatal, neurodegenerative disorder that’s driving down deer and elk populations in other ...

One of the largest national forests in America, the Bridger-Teton is a landscape that rivals most national parks. Forest Service employees are often underpaid and overworked but they do their jobs on ...

The Flying D Ranch is a sprawling conservation-oriented ranch, photographed here in August of 2023. Now-retired cable television titan Ted Turner owns the property, which spans nearly 114,000 acres in ...

The sun was low and this Canada lynx moved through the shadows as he approached the shore of a frozen lake in southern Yukon. Its cousin, the Eurasian lynx, vanished from Great Britain about 1,300 ...

Prepping and burning around Trinity Guard Station during the Trinity Ridge Fire in the Boise National Forest, Idaho. August, 2012. Credit: Kari Greer Ted McClanahan had two major injuries in his ...

A mountain lion turns to the author’s camera. Many of MacNeil Lyons’ 35 cougar sightings have come in winter when it’s easier to track pawprints and see mountain lion sign. Shadow cat, mountain lion, ...