The Vital Ground Foundation expanded its Fowler Creek grizzly bear habitat conservation project this month with the acquisition of 64 acres in the Yaak Valley of far Northwest Montana. The ...

Grizzly bear (Courtesy of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service). A federal judge has halted a logging project in the Kootenai National Forest, saying the federal government failed to correctly ...

A federal judge has halted a logging project in the Kootenai National Forest, saying the federal government failed to correctly analyze the impacts to grizzly bears. The Knotty Pine Project, a 10-year ...

WHITEFISH - A Missoula-based nonprofit organization this week adopted a 71-acre tract of wildlife habitat in the Yaak Mountains near Troy that it hopes will improve grizzly bear migration corridors.

In the late 1980s, grizzly bears in the Cabinet Mountains were in trouble. The range southwest of Libby, Montana, had only six or so bears left, and wildlife managers were concerned the population ...

MISSOULA -- Spring has brought bears back into action, and it’s also energized biologists overseeing the remote population of grizzlies in the Cabinet-Yaak mountains of northwest Montana. “We were in ...

In northwest Montana’s Yaak country — those lands in the Purcell Mountains that stretch down from out of Canada yet lie north of the Kootenai River in a strange wet biologically diverse garden that’s ...

MISSOULA (AP) — A conservation group has bought 71 acres in the Yaak Mountains in northwestern Montana near Troy with the goal of improving migration corridors for grizzly bears and other wildlife in ...