The Blackfoot Challenge brings together ranchers, state agencies, nonprofits in the Blackfoot watershed near Ovando, Montana, to deal with wolves, bears, predators.

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Blackfoot watershed is home to marine ecosystems, anglers and those making a way of life in Montana. The Blackfoot River flows 132 miles through Montana, from the Anaconda ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Six AmeriCorps members will be deployed on lands in the Blackfoot Watershed this summer and fall as part of a new Wildland Restoration Academy launched by the Montana ...

Close to 165,000 acres of Plum Creek’s lands in Montana and Washington State were purchased by the Nature Conservancy in 2014 for $134 million, including lands in the lower Blackfoot Valley near ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - Montanans who enjoy the Blackfoot Watershed and other rivers across western Montana should expect an extremely low water year due to record low snowpack. "This year our peak ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Blackfoot Challenge Executive Director Seth Wilson told the Missoulian in an email that since the commissioners sent the letter in February, five of the nonprofit's 15 grants had been restored.

The Blackfoot River Basin — which spans some 1.5 million acres in west-central Montana — supports countless multi-generational ranches, while also providing important habitat for grizzly bears.

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.

How one senator threatens a watershed.When after many years I finally found a way back to the Blackfoot River in western Montana, it was a dream come true. I returned at a lucky time, after an ...