What happened when two experienced hikers got caught in the Bolt Creek Fire.

Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, Bringing back grizzlies splits environmentalists, in a special issue about collaboration in the West. Tom France is an attorney...

‘These youth are going to be able to take ownership of healing the land at Fort Belknap.’

The people who feed, clothe and clean up after the West’s rich newcomers can’t afford to live alongside them.

Supporters call it ’the largest conservation opportunity in the West.’

The Confluence Lab’s inaugural “Artists-In-Fire” (AIF) Residency will support a group of artists and creative writers in the Pacific Northwest and adjacent regions as boots-on-the-ground participants...

Decommissioning the dams is the first step toward restoring salmon runs and respecting Native treaties

In Montana, a section of the Pacific Northwest Trail has locals and conservationists debating the fate of a forest.

When a GOP megadonor didn't like the coverage he was getting from Wyoming's newsrooms, he funded a new one. Now it’s pushing anti-trans talking points and climate misinformation.

Unprecedented rain and snowmelt destroyed roads and washed away bridges outside the national park.

Wildfire smoke is taking a toll on cows in the West, potentially even diminishing how much milk they produce.

54 million acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management aren’t meeting the agency’s own land-health standards.

Whales, bats and birds sound different depending on where they live. So do elk, according to new research.

A veteran employee of the Bureau of Land Management in the San Luis Valley filed a whistleblower complaint Monday, saying her bosses are failing to enforce livestock grazing rules on public lands a…

The Pulp is a new independent, nonprofit news organization for Missoula that will cover people, politics, arts, and culture.

Practitioners fear a chilling effect on future operations.

Insurance companies are increasingly discontinuing wildfire policies for homeowners, renters and mobile home occupants across Washington in high-risk fire areas.

Climate change is expanding the list of areas at risk for the worst wildfires.

Tips on staying healthy, keeping sane and getting through being socked in by smoke.

Scientists in Idaho are finding that wildfire smoke dampens milk production and coincides with increased risk of disease and even death in dairy cows.

A new poll finds strong support for fighting climate change and protecting public lands.

Leah Sottile investigates how an Idaho couple’s embrace of fringe Mormon beliefs led to multiple murder charges in her debut book, ‘When the Moon Turns to Blood.’

Tracy Stone-Manning discusses how the federal agency sees conservation, the climate crisis and the Indigenous history of public lands.

Lookout Santa Cruz has won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of the 2023 flooding along the Central Coast.

An internal Forest Service survey shows a critical link in the wildfire fighting apparatus is struggling.

These rare kills in Washington State have biologists searching for answers. “Everyone always assumes wolves have the upper hand,” says one scientist. “But that’s not always the case.”

Extreme heat is making it harder for rescue helicopters to take off.

A long-awaited agreement will address Canadian mine waste flowing downriver into Montana and Idaho.

Tens of millions of people — and millions of acres of farmland — rely on the Colorado River’s water. But as its supply shrinks, these farmers get more water from the river than entire states.

Colorado’s new wolf-themed specialty license plate joins a regional menagerie of critter-themed plates.

A new study finds wildfires are burning more high elevation areas and dramatically impacting the West’s snowpack as a result.

Geologists in Washington are monitoring scorched forest to help create a better warning system for deadly debris flows.

Wildfire risk is increasing everywhere, especially in the East and South. Here’s a major reason why.

Two years later, the intertidal zone of the Pacific Northwest coast is still recovering from a devastating heat wave.

News from the bison restoration team: growing the herd, bison harvest sets a record, and a long-awaited homecoming.

Wyoming authorities cited and fined the man $250, but so far have brought no other legal penalties for publicly displaying and killing wild wolf.

Read a Q&A with Yup’ik fisher and activist Alannah Hurley on the fight for Bristol Bay’s future.

A writer tests her mettle against the firefighters who work in our forests each year

A community science initiative along the West Coast is using volunteer observations to study the effect of wildfire smoke on birds.

Conservation groups and activists have blocked a logging site and filed a legal complaint with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

In Washington, a new team of epidemiologists is preparing for a hotter, smokier future.

Exposure to toxic particles also led to $432bn in health expenses between 2008 and 2018

In Western states, the older a water claim, the more secure it is during a drought. Tribes have long been excluded from that system and now, they're pushing for change.

The tree is getting federal protection. But plenty of people were already trying to save it.

"An astonishing amount of smoke gets inside these facilities," said one researcher who spent the past three wildfire seasons collecting data from monitors installed in long-term care facilities.