When Brian Wheeler set out to install water quality monitoring equipment in the Big Hole River near Twin Bridges, Montana on June 28, he encountered an unexpected sight. In many parts of the river, ...

The allure of finding gold in Paradise Valley’s Mill Creek attracted placer miners to the stream as soon as the western boundary of the Crow Reservation was reduced by the federal government in 1882.

A Nevada-based mineral company has announced plans to develop a mine near the headwaters of the West Fork of the Bitterroot River in western Montana. If approved, the project could extract billions of ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks will continue its project to conserve native Yellowstone cutthroat trout in the upper Shields River watershed. The project is to address the declining ...

REUTERS - Climate changes that have made Montana streams much warmer over the last 30 years are helping invasive trout push their native cousins toward extinction, researchers said on Tuesday, saying ...