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 ...

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 ...

Crews have made good progress on the Observation Point Fire burning in the Bitterroot Mountains in Lost Horse Canyon, south ...

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.

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

The nearly 1.6 million-acre Bitterroot National Forest has grown slightly — by 12.5 acres, to be exact — with the recent acquisition of land straddling its eponymous river in Sula.

The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit on September 9th against the Bitterroot National Forest seeking to stop the Gold Butterfly logging and burning project.

Center for Biological Diversity: HAMILTON, Mont.— Conservation groups urged the U.S. Forest Service today to disclose more information about a Canadian company’s mining exploration plans in Montana’s ...

The Bitterroot National Forest’s new Darby district ranger, Erick Winthers, has worked on other national forests across the West and he’s never seen anything quite like it.

A logging and clearcutting project in the Bitterroot National Forest will make it harder to hunt elk, inflates the amount of “old growth” that would be left, and will cost taxpayers $4.2 ...