Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest in northern Idaho. Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly bears, old-growth forests, and the local populace which strongly opposed the deforestation — is that a federal appeals court just ruled for the Alliance.

MISSOULA, Mont. - For countless generations, the water that flows through Missoula, Montana has been the lifeblood. The Native Americans have traveled up and down these waters for millennia. Countless poets and authors have tried to capture its spiritual essence. Even Lewis and Clark explored the waters hundreds of years ago. Still to this day, the Clark Fork River means so much to so many.

Missoula, Mont. — New access points along the Clark Fork River in Missoula have given river trails a new look thanks to a project more than a decade in the making.