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MISSOULA, Mont. — Six AmeriCorps members will be deployed on lands in the Blackfoot Watershed this summer and fall as part of ...

Wolf pack numbers in the Blackfoot River watershed northeast of Missoula have grown from one in 2007 to at least a dozen this year. But wildlife officials hope the experience adapting to wolves in ...

The American public now owns an additional 10-square miles of high-quality hunting, hiking and premier wildlife habitat lands along western Montana’s iconic Blackfoot River. On Dec. 20 the ...

By the time I again began spending months in western Montana, the Blackfoot fished better than when I was a boy. The river has been a family affair ever since my grandfather leased a plot on ...

This winter saw an unusually low snowpack, with the Blackfoot watershed receiving only 57 percent of its average snow moisture by April 1. The subsequent cool, moist spring weather did not provide ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. For Seth Wilson, executive director of the Blackfoot Challenge, finding ways to manage ...

Missoula's County Commissioners expressed "grave" concern to Montana's congressional delegation over the loss of conservation project funding, citing millions in frozen dollars that were headed to ...

Thanks to U.S. Sen. Steve Daines and the increasingly bitter clash over use of public lands in the west, the cold, clear waters of the Blackfoot are endangered once again.

OVANDO -- The Blackfoot and Swan valleys, two of Montana's most picturesque landscapes, appear largely unchanged by the development pressure sweeping much of the West.

Trout need cold water. Humans have been trout fishing in western Montana for millenia. In the Missoula area, the Salish people were catching native bull trout on the Blackfoot River long before ...