2+ week, 2+ hour ago  (156+ words) A pair of bald eagles rests atop a pine tree near Georgetown Lake in early March. Twenty-four bighorn sheep rest across a mountainside near Anaconda in early March. A great blue heron prepares for take-off while working on its nest…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (114+ words) The program peaked with 46 landowners in 2024, falling to 31 landowners last year, a nearly 32% decline." The changes in the predictability and duration of bison migrations outside the park "affects the reliability of management assumptions" that i" The Montana Fish and Wildlife…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (122+ words) Antonio Lee Webb died of blunt force injuries April 18, Yellowstone County Deputy Coroner Rich Hoffman said Tuesday." Shawna Grove, also known as Shawna Hart, was reportedly last seen on Thursday getting into a Chevy Traverse with Tanner Grove. The case…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (168+ words) Billings police, Yellowstone County Sheriff's deputies and ambulance personnel are on the scene of what appeared to be an industrial accident " Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy was part of a crash landing in a former Czechian fighter jet owned by billionaire…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (105+ words) Under pressure to strike a compromise on water cuts, and amid talk of litigation, upper-basin states claim the West's climate-fueled drought l" As researchers in the region ponder unanswered questions about the world's smallest lagomorph, the pygmy rabbit faces new…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (240+ words) In Yellowstone's southwest corner lies the Bechler Ranger Station. Each winter, backcountry rangers visit this area to remove huge snow loads from historic and modern buildings as part of routine maintenance. The Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody,…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (161+ words) Billings Gazette Javascript is required to use this website. Bison graze on the expanded North Bridger Bison Ranch west of Wilsall. Learn about the bison, according to Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks field guides: Bison are built for winter, but…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (106+ words) A great grey owl sits atop a pine tree near Georgetown Lake on Dec. 27, 2025. Pronghorns gather in a field near Fairmont Hot Springs on Jan. 14. A mule deer buck pauses along Cable Road near Anaconda in January. A three-legged ram…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (280+ words) Billings has been surprisingly baren this winter. And even as record amounts of snow fall on the eastern United States, Montana can lean into its unnaturally warm January with these five Outdoors Just For Kids columns from outdoors editor Brett…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1761+ words) The politician Theodore Roosevelt, Montana-based western artist Charles M. Russell and novelist Jack London of "The Call of the Wild" fame all have one thing in common " Philip R. Goodwin. Although Goodwin's name may not sound familiar compared to these three well-known…...