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 ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Last November, Joe Josephson stepped into his latest role in a long career in conservation and ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. - The following is a press release from the Forest Service: The entire Gallatin National Forest and the Beartooth Ranger District of the Custer National Forest will life all fire ...

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 ...

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 ...

The remains of an ancient forest have been discovered in a popular hiking area of the Rocky Mountains. Surrounded by backcountry hiking trails, the Beartooth plateau is a frozen tundra that sits at ...

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 ...

Brett French Lee Newspapers May 9, 2025 May 9, 2025 In 1925, after three years of blasting and building, the largest lake in the Beartooth Mountains began generating electricity for a power-hungry ...

A federal judge has halted a proposal to poison a remote creek in the Absaroka Mountains as part of a trout introduction project, writing that the plan runs counter to the Wilderness Act. Last week, U ...