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Brett French

Conservation groups file complaint to halt Red Lodge-area logging projects

For the third time, conservation groups are filing suit to halt logging in the Red Lodge area that has been proposed by the Beartooth Ranger District as a way to “reduce the potential for high-intensity landscape-scale wildfire.” Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council and the Council

BLM upholds decision to revoke American Prairie's bison grazing leases

Some bison can be grazed on federal lands, but not American Prairie’s conservation herd, the Bureau of Land Management has ruled again. In a 23-page final decision issued on May 8, the agency’s acting director has upheld the Secretary of the Interior’s overturning of the Montana

Bow vs. atlatl: New research dates arrival of warfare upgrade in North America

Correction: Larry Todd is a native of Wyoming, not Montana. The retreat of snowfields and glaciers across North America has revealed stunning ancient artifacts, such as an 11,500-year-old atlatl dart recovered in the Beartooth Mountains in 2007. In the Southwest, dry caves and rock shelters have been

Big Sky touts water reuse as Montana panel examines expanding water recycling

Could one of Montana’s most expensive resort communities be an example of water reuse and conservation for the rest of the state? Or is the process so costly and complicated that reproducing Big Sky’s success at recycling as much as 170 to 190 million gallons of water a

Yellowstone wolf's skeleton testifies to strains of a wild life

Life’s misfortunes are often written on a body’s bones. The fall from a wall that cracked a construction worker’s skull. That whitewater canoe trip when your friend’s finger was smashed between the gunnel and a boulder. The tyrannosaurus tooth lodged in a duck-billed dinosaur’s

Yellowstone wolf's skeleton testifies to strains of a wild life

Life’s misfortunes are often written on a body’s bones. The fall from a wall that cracked a construction worker’s skull. That whitewater canoe trip when your friend’s finger was smashed between the gunnel and a boulder. The tyrannosaurus tooth lodged in a duck-billed dinosaur’s

American Prairie sues state Land Board over bison grazing directive

Montana’s top elected officials ordered the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation to ignore American Prairie’s latest request to graze bison on a parcel of adjoining state land, prompting the group to again take legal action. The lawsuit was filed on St. Patrick’s Day after the state&