The Bitterroot National Forest reports more than 800 confirmed lightning strikes on the forest in the past 48 hours.

Ten new lightning-caused fires have been discovered in the Bitterroot National Forest following Saturday night's ...

Two significant wildfires sparked by lightning strikes continue to burn across thousands of acres in Idaho's Payette National ...

The resolution proclaims that a state of emergency exists in Ravalli County and gives the local law enforcement the authority to issue an immediate evacuation due to fire danger.

During yesterday's thunder and lightning storms ten new lightning cause fires were started on the Bitterroot National ...

Crews are battling several wildfires in the Bitterroot Valley after weekend storms caused more than 500 confirmed lightning ...

All the way from Sula to Whitefish, wildfire activity lit up Saturday afternoon — brought on by severe thunderstorms and ...

Several new fires sparked in the Lolo National Forest following a thunderstorm on Saturday evening.The Montana DNRC posted on ...

To help elk, a 1987 Forest Plan set limits on road densities, but the limits ended up helping grizzly bears and bull trout in the Bitterroot National Forest too, a lawsuit filed this week said.

This story was originally published by Montana Free Press at montanafreepress.org. The Bitterroot National Forest is hitting the brakes on a 4-year-old proposal to use thinning and prescribed ...

Sonny LaSalle was a forest silviculturist with the Bitterroot National Forest back in the late 1960s. "Rangers were made by their ability to meet timber targets," LaSalle told the group gathered ...