Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Montana’s official state animal remains the grizzly bear, selected by schoolchildren in the early 1980s. Grizzlies represent ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Starting today at the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes' Bison Range crews will be performing road construction from the Y intersection to the Visitor Center. This construction ...

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes' Bison Range in Moiese reports at least 40 new calves have been spotted this spring. Last weekend was the first weekend of 2024 under summer hours. Visitors ...

Returning home from the Pacific Ocean and a wet winter at Fort Clatsop in Oregon, Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery was delighted to enter the thick grasslands of eastern Montana. Instead of rain ...

Montana filed a lawsuit against the National Park Service and other officials Tuesday over Yellowstone’s 2024 bison management plan, which raises the ceiling on the national park’s free-ranging ...

Across Montana’s eastern plains, few sights register as strongly as a bison herd navigating open grassland. Although the grizzly bear is the official state animal, the plains bison has come to ...

Wamsley was one of the earliest arrivals at the Bison Range Visitor Center Wednesday, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recruited volunteers to help the agency tackle any number of chores on the ...

Through the years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hasn’t been known for a willingness to stand up to political pressure. So I was surprised in mid-December when the agency took back control of the ...

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte and two agencies have raised a lawsuit to challenge the Yellowstone National Park's way of managing its bison herd, arguing that it violates federal laws. Newsweek has ...

They also called for giving the animals free range across the state and advocated for repealing state law 81-2-120 that permits the management and slaughter of Yellowstone’s bison that migrate into ...