MISSOULA- Wednesday was a beautiful fall day in the Garden City, which allowed kindergartners through high school students to plant nearly 900 bitterroot plants. Students from Nkwsum Salish Language ...

HELENA, Mont. — There were at least five elk calves killed after consuming toxic ornamental plants in mid-January in the Florence area of the Bitterroot Valley. The calves were found dead by ...

DARBY — It's not easy being a little 12-inch-tall pine tree in a forest of charcoal. For one thing, there is precious little shade and the coming summer's likely to be hot and thirsty. If the rain ...

Stops stood in front of a group of students during a talk about the uses of the Bitterroot plant to help curb hunger and how elders know to harvest it before the flower blooms, reminding them it’s ...

The packs are made up of plants native to the Bitterroot Valley and due to their adaptation to the local environment, they require less water.

The Bitterroot National Forest on Thursday proposed thinning the black sticks - and sometimes, the green trees - on up to 79,221 acres burned by wildfires last summer. "We still believe that fire ...