Protecting Montana's land and keeping it wild is an important topic right now. Currently, Montana is 29% public land and 28% federal land. Did you know that there's a nonprofit land trust that's ...

This summer, Montana rallied to kill a congressional proposal that would have opened the door to the sale of public land.

Property owners increasingly choose conservation easements to protect Montana land from development, prompting land trust ...

The title of Montana Rep. Dan Bartel’s bill, House Bill 677, seems broad enough: “An act prohibiting certain nonprofit corporations from purchasing agricultural lands.” That was the one thing both ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. By a 4-1 vote, the all-Republican Montana Land Board approved the purchase of a 52,930-acre ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. From the back of a bush plane at Mission Field, the Crazy Mountains were ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Bureau of Land Management is announcing new free map resources are available to help the public access its lands. The Free National Mobile Map Package Program has maps in ...

Nearly 33,000 acres west of Kalispell are slated for permanent protection under a conservation easement being considered by the Montana Land Board next week. The Land Board will either confirm or deny ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Revenue generated by Montana’s state trust lands topped $100 million last fiscal year, the first ...

A narrow gravel road takes visitors zig-zagging up a mountain, alongside a creek, and, if they’re lucky, they’ll see buffalo roaming freely on the terrain. The bison range sits on more than 18,000 ...