In a stretch that is proposed to follow the Canadian border in the Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana lies 50 miles of swamp, bog orchids, mosquitoes, dark interior forest with no sightlines.

The Yaak Valley is home to an estimated 25-30 grizzly bears, according to Vital Ground, which is one of the smallest enduring populations in the Lower 48.

Politics Trump’s Forest Service Planned More Logging in the Yaak Valley, Environmentalists Want Biden To Make it a ‘Climate Refuge’ One of the wildest places in America is a test case for ...

Hand Pumps. But progress has finally come to the Yaak River Valley—and last week, amid modest ceremony, the inhabitants observed the first linking-in of the area’s electric power line.

Rick Bass, the author more than 30 books, is a founding board member of the Yaak Valley Forest Council. His memoir, “The Traveling Feast” will be published in June.

THE YAAK – When a couple in their 20s came to real estate agent Carolyn Bennett looking for land, she tried to talk them out of moving into the valley where she’s spent her last four decades.

The small population of grizzly bears in the Yaak Valley rarely encounters humans or their influences, according to Rick Bass, an acclaimed writer and conservationist long associated with the Yaak.

Far back in the high elevation wetlands of northwest Montana’s Yaak Valley — hidden away on the Kootenai National Forest (KNF) — is a vast and ancient forest referred to ...

The future of a national scenic trail through northwest Montana’s most isolated grizzly bear country has wildlife and recreation experts tangled in a messy debate.

In his memoir "Why I Came West," author Rick Bass recalls his lifelong quest to preserve the wild roadlessness of northwestern Montana's Yaak Valley, and the personal cost of the struggle on his ...

Nov. 16—The Vital Ground Foundation expanded its Fowler Creek grizzly bear habitat conservation project this month with the acquisition of 64 acres in the Yaak Valley of far Northwest Montana.