Bitterroot

The Bitterroot Water Partnership invites you to help clean up the Bitterroot River on Saturday, August 12 in their annual Bitterroot River Clean-Up.

They hold mining leases on about 4,700 acres within the Bitterroot National Forest near Sheep Creek, a tributary to the West Fork Bitterroot River.

The Bitterroot Outdoor Journal is heard Wednesday mornings during the 7:30 a.m. Bitterroot Morning newscast.

Although they can fish the Bitterroot River by walking out their back door, for most of the summer they fish in the many streams that lace the watershed.

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In fact, biologists have recently discovered far more bears than expected in the Bitterroot ecosystem.

Litigation between the Bitterroot National Forest and the county has also played a role.

The Bitterroot lost a firecracker, Veronica “Vonnie” Evelyn Miller passed away on February 17, 2023.

If you’re one of the brave souls who commute daily between the Bitterroot Valley and Missoula, you’ve faced the beast: Highway 93’s dreaded S-turns near Lolo.

Many people in the Bitterroot Valley are familiar with Brothers Mortuary and Crematory.

Now, with the installation of Bitterroot, the NSUF High Performance Computing team at INL have another resource to help speed the journey for nuclear developers around the country.

One of the disparaged liberals, a local bookstore owner, found the slur amusing and had “bottom feeder” buttons made up and the libs, always a minority in the Bitterroot, started wearing them to meetings.

Part of the hesitation in the Bitterroot is due to the national forest that overlaps the Idaho border.

To do this, they have created a county-wide contest, showcasing the participant’s love of art, and the Bitterroot’s love of the state.

Wind River Bear Institute has been working with FWP since 2007 to mitigate human-bear conflicts in the Bitterroot Valley.

A woman walks a dog on the bank of the Bitterroot river, Missoula, Montana, the setting for Rye Curtis’s debut novel Kingdomtide.

Fire danger on the Bitterroot National Forest and other area forests is nearing the "Very High" level, which means the dry, hot conditions can easily cause a small fire to quickly become a large fire.

When you get out in the far flung Bitterroot, you'll have plenty of places where there's no cellphone coverage.

But before that, they'll be at a Tuesday evening dinner and dance at Hamilton's Bitterroot River Inn.

This year, Montana Bliss Artworks and Artists Along the Bitterroot helped in judging and with three workshops at professional artists' studios for selected students.