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Montana

Montana Officials Warn of Elevated Wildfire Risk From Increasing Drought, Heat and Wind

Volunteer departments, often the first to respond to blazes, face recruiting challenges, and federal firefighting agencies are in flux.

By Mosabber Hossain

A helicopter crew battles a wildfire near Kalispell, Mont., in August 2022. Credit: Don and Melinda Crawford/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Bison graze at the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative in Wyoming. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

New BLM Grazing Rules Eliminate Tribal Buffalo From Public Lands

By Blaine Harden

Hikers walk along a trail in Montana’s Custer Gallatin National Forest. Credit: Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service

Logging Project Near Yellowstone Could Threaten Wildlife Habitat and Tourist-Dependent Businesses

By Mosabber Hossain

Fifth-generation Montanan Brad Wilson stands beside a dirt road that leads to a century-old public trail that was abandoned by the U.S. Forest Service as part of a controversial land swap with the Yellowstone Club—an exclusive mountaintop retreat for the megarich. Credit: Evan Simon/Floodlight

Trump Officials, Billionaires and the Quiet Reshaping of America’s Public Lands

By Evan Simon and Ames Alexander, Floodlight

Bison graze on American Prairie land in Montana. Credit: Amy Toensing/Getty Images

Trump Administration Bans a Nonprofit’s Bison From Grazing on Federal Lands, but Spares Tribes

By Blaine Harden

Opponents of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines hold a rally to protest President Donald Trump’s executive orders advancing their construction at Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C., on Jan 24, 2017. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

Is the Keystone XL Pipeline Back?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A bison herd roams the American Prairie at sunset. Credit: Amy Toensing/Getty Images

Trump Administration Targets Bison on Federal Grazing Lands

By Blaine Harden

Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountains Mine is the only longwall coal mine in Montana. Aerial support provided by LightHawk.

New Lawsuit Aims to Halt Expansion of a Montana Coal Mine Blamed for Drying up the Land Above It

Story and photos by Jake Bolster

A view of the Valero Houston Refinery in Houston on Aug. 29. Credit: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images

A New Report Describes Deep Environmental Cuts, State by State

By Lisa Sorg

Jeff Mow, the former superintendent of Glacier National Park, says privatizing national parks would limit access. “They would become national parks for those that can afford it, as opposed to all Americans.” Credit: Tami A. Heilemann/DOI

States and Nonprofits Are Helping National Parks Run During the Shutdown. Could Their Efforts Backfire?

By Jake Bolster

Eva Lighthiser (center), lead plaintiff in the Lighthiser v. Trump case, walks with attorney Mat dos Santos as they arrive at the Russell Smith Courthouse in Missoula, Montana, on Sept. 16. Credit: Issam Ahmed/AFP via Getty Images

Montana Court Dismisses Youth-led Lawsuit Challenging Trump Executive Orders Boosting Fossil Fuels

By Dana Drugmand

A wolf is seen near Yellowstone National Park’s Lower Geyser Basin in Wyoming. Credit: Jacob W. Frank/NPS

Political Whiplash Is Terrible for Wolves’ Future. But More Is Coming.

By Jake Bolster, Kiley Price

Olivia Vesovitch (center), Georgi Fischer (right) and Eva Lighthiser (back) arrive at the U.S. District Court of Montana in Missoula on Sept. 16. Credit: Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan

Can the Latest Youth Climate Case Win Where Others Have Failed?

By Elisabeth Kwak-Hefferan

The Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River runs through federal land near the White Mountains National Recreation Area in Alaska. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

House Republicans’ Use of Little-Known Law to Strike Down Public Land Plans Could Be Pandora’s Box Moment

By Zoë Rom

An aerial view of a surface coal mine in the Powder River Basin. Credit: Bureau of Land Management Wyoming

Trump Move to Increase Coal Mining in the Powder River Basin Will Worsen Climate Change, Experts Warn

By Jake Bolster

A deer roams in front of a wind farm on a private ranch near Kevin, Mont. Credit: William Campbell-Corbis via Getty Images

Property Rights Take Center Stage as Montana Grapples With Wind Development

By Karin Kirk

Mica Kantor, a 14-year-old plaintiff, testifies on the second day of the Held v. Montana trial in June 2023. Credit: Richard Forbes/Inside Climate News

In Montana, Republican State Legislators Fight Back After Successful Youth Climate Lawsuit

By Nick Mott

A view of a surface coal mine in the Powder River Basin. Credit: Bureau of Land Management Wyoming

How Will Trump’s Effort to Revitalize Coal Play Out in the Nation’s Most Productive Coal Fields?

By Jake Bolster

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) gives a concession speech during an Election Night party on Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio. Brown lost his re-election bid to Republican Bernie Moreno. Credit: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images

With Republicans Claiming the Senate and Possibly the House, Congress Expected to Reverse Course on Climate

By James Bruggers

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