Feature photo of the Beartooth Highway by Mackenzie Lisac. Custer Gallatin National Forest Plan: Comment by June 5 or forever hold your peace Custer Gallatin National Forest Land. Source: USDA The Custer Gallatin National Forest stretches from Camp Crook, South...

Madison Valley’s fishing and ag communities come together to preserve a valley’s lifeblood Folks in the Madison Valley have water running through their veins. That’s a literal statement, of course, but it also gets at something deeper than biology. For...

Some Montana trails see clear travel ahead It’s rare to find something that four out of five folks agree upon these days. But that is how many Montanans -- 81 percent of us -- recreate outside, whether we’re hunting, snowmobiling,...

Photographs and writing by August Schield On September 4, a strong easterly wind event helped the Rice Ridge Fire, just east of Montana’s Seeley-Swan Valley, consume 48,000 acres of timber in a single run. Nearly doubling in size, the fire...