3+ week, 2+ day ago   (190+ words) After Olivia Wells of Coeur d’Alene earned a bachelor’s in wildlife in Spring 2026, the CNR graduate student worked as an assistant park ranger in North Idaho’s Round Lake State Park. Ralph Bartholdt/UI At Round Lake State Park, near Sagle,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (341+ words) In the span of a month, firefighting costs for 20 wildfires burning across Washington have totalled $207 million, according to data from the state’s Department of Natural Resources. The expenses will be split among local, state and federal agencies. But the number…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (688+ words) Idaho officials and conservationists are weighing in this week, taking opposite stances on the federal government's plan to shift management responsibility for grizzly bear recovery to the state level, giving greater control to Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Announced in July,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (357+ words) Kootenai National Forest officials recently signed off on the Getner Salvage Project. It's the second that will target blowdown from the storms last winter in Lincoln County. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News) The Kootenai National Forest recently approved another blowdown…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (405+ words) The Park Service decided to have the well capped and plugged after it was found to be leaking gases. The well was drilled in the early 1900s prior to Glacier becoming a national park in 1910. The company built a wooden ramp…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (242+ words) Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), Lincoln County Asbestos Resource Program and their contractors recently completed the stabilization of a Libby Creek bank damaged by severe flooding in December. Contractors Weston Solutions and Olympus Technical Services wrapped up construction Aug....

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (409+ words) Kootenai National Forest officials recently signed off on the Getner Salvage Project. It's the second that will target blowdown from the storms last winter in Lincoln County. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News) The Kootenai National Forest recently approved another blowdown…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (980+ words) Aleisha Rust holds a handful of huckleberries outside Mama B’s Jubilee in Bigfork on Tuesday, Aug. 11. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Casey Kreider Tom Corl has “high hopes for high up hucks” as the season for the region’s most famous…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (786+ words) A forest ranger said the fire in Belgium could continue for months underground in peaty soil and sporadically flare up. Europe is sweltering through one of its hottest and driest summers on record, which a recent study said was fueled…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (505+ words) It’s no secret that grizzly bears in the Lower 48 live close to the edge of extinction. Now, with little explanation and almost no time for the public to respond, the Trump administration and three Western governors have proposed to make…...