Upper Big Hole News Today

A five-year study of greater sage-grouse ecology in the Upper Big Hole Valley should help inform efforts to conserve the species as sagebrush habitat dwindles.

Humans tend to see the world with mankind as the most important species on the planet.

It wasn’t even August when Montana’s world-famous trout streams began to shut down due to low flows and high water temperatures — so high they severely stress or kill fish

Montana's streams and rivers are drying up earlier than they had been and columnist George Ochenski wonders if it's not already too late.

This week, Upper Missouri Waterkeeper documented and notified the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) of a miles-long neon-green noxious algal bloom emerging on the Big Hole River downstream of

It’s not even August and Montana’s world-famous trout streams are being shut down due to low flows and high water temperatures — so high they severely stress or kill fish

With the budget surplus, Montana has a rare opportunity to invest in saving the state's most precious resource, its water, writes columnist George Ochenski.

Montana doesn’t often have a budget surplus — let alone billions of dollars that resulted from the enormous influx of federal funds during the pandemic and massive new federal infrastructure

Friday night through Sunday night all mountain ranges will see snow and it could be heavy at times. Above 6,000’ look for snow totals in the neighborhood of 6”-12”

Friday night through Sunday night all mountain ranges will see snow and it could be heavy at times. Above 6,000’ look for snow totals in the neighborhood of 6”-12”