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The Selway Bitterroot Frank Church Foundation is accepting volunteers for trail maintenance projects in Idaho and Montana forests.

The trail, a zigzag that drapes repeatedly across the ridge and the border between the two states about 47 miles west of Missoula, used to be a marquee backcountry ride for mountain bikers. That ended in 2012 when the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest, which controls the Idaho side of the trail, approved a new travel management plan that barred bicycles from its portion of the trail.

Lucas James Fitzpatrick, known to all as Luke, passed away Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. He was born in Lewiston on Aug. 21, 1987.

The West Fork Ranger District is planning to conduct a large-scale prescribed burn operation next week, weather permitting.

The lightning-caused Bowles Creek fire near Skalkaho Pass grew more than 2,300 acres on Wednesday and Thursday to 6,847 acres.