Outdoors
Explore Montana’s wild side—hiking, fishing, skiing, and outdoor adventures across Northwest Montana and beyond.
Wyoming cuts wolf hunt in half to buoy Yellowstone region's disease-depleted population
Wyoming wildlife managers plan to cut wolf hunting by 50% after a canine distemper outbreak reduced wolf numbers t…
Retired center's director spent career sharing science of Glacier Park
You could say that Tara Carolin’s career in Glacier National Park was one of service to science and discovery.
Damming evidence: Citizen scientists track beavers through Lolo National Forest
Beavers are an excellent tool in water storage, something Montana wildlife researchers have taken great interest in, when it comes to repairing water systems.
The survivor: World-class mountaineer climbs toward UM graduation
Before University of Montana student Justin Willis ever stepped foot on campus, he was a professional mountain climber. A Billings native, he grew up finding r…
Social media's negative impacts on Glacier highlighted by outdoor summit speakers
As Two Bear Air Rescue’s helicopter hovered close to a steep cliff in Glacier National Park to recover the body of a man who had fallen to his death in July, n…
Annual Northern Rockies Snow and Avalanche Workshop is Nov. 8
The Flathead Avalanche Center announces the 15th Annual Northern Rockies Snow and Avalanche Workshop (NRSAW) to be held on Saturday, Nov. 8 at the Whitefish Pe…
UM students explore animal behavior with camera traps
On a hillside in northwest Montana, Mahdieh Tourani secures a camera to a tree.
Meetings discuss conservation easements
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is hosting upcoming public meetings with private landowners and staff from Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation about lands under conservation easement in northw…
Hunters turn out for opening weekend
Montana’s general deer and elk hunting season opened last weekend with seasonable weather and a strong showing at regional game check stations.
A challenging route up Glacier's Mount Saint Nicholas
Sheer, foreboding, and guarded by an uncompromising bushwhack, Mount Saint Nicholas is the epitome of Glacier Park alpinism. Driving east along Highway 2, Moun…
Wildlife managers look to hunters for help bagging deadly disease
Dropping temperatures and falling leaves mean one thing for many Montanans: hunting season is here.
Encounters with a ruffed grouse
If you didn’t know what you were listening to, you might suspect a larger creature was stirring in the brush.
The grunt to Fifty Mountain is worth it
It was barely light enough to take a photo as I strapped on my pack and peered into the brush. At first, I saw a cow moose in the brush and then what was reall…
Kalispell Middle Schoolers sweat it out together through fitness program
Whether hiking to the summit of Mount Aeneas, biking Going-to-the-Sun Road, skiing Blacktail Mountain, ice skating in Woodland Park, going to a rock-climbing g…
A crowning achievement: Champion larch tree tells stories of stewardship in the Swan Valley
Autumn in western Montana is like a warm-hued sunset.
Archery malfunctions, mishaps and misses
Three headlamps bobbed along the gated mountain road, boots treading lightly yet swiftly as my husband Christopher, our surrogate hunting father Mike, and I tr…