FIRST ON FOX: Montana filed a legal challenge against the Biden administration Friday, challenging a decision that take large swaths of land out of agricultural production. The filing, spearheaded by ...

Amanda Eggert Montana Free Press Jan 21, 2025 Jan 21, 2025 The Custer Gallatin National Forest on Friday authorized a controversial land swap involving more than 15 square miles of land in two ...

Property owners increasingly choose conservation easements to protect Montana land from development, prompting land trust groups to organize an educational panel.

HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Land Board purchased a 32,891-acre conservation easement in the Salish and Cabinet Mountains between Kalispell and Libby. The easement is phase one of a potentially ...

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 ...

In Montana’s Crazy Mountains, private landowners have restricted access to public lands, including in the Sweet Grass Creek drainage, shown here. PHOTO BY BRUCE GORDON/ECOFLIGHT Our map — the official ...

HELENA, Mont. — The Montana Land Board gave its approval for the state to purchase more than 328 acres in eastern Montana. The North Wildcat Coulee Project along the Lower Yellowstone River is ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The sell-off of federal public lands across the West is back on the table in Republicans’ federal ...

Should ranches that have been taken out of production continue to be taxed as agricultural property? That’s a question the Montana Legislature will tackle this session in order to address the trend of ...