In Montana's Yaak Valley, a stand of old growth dubbed Unit 72 sits at the center of a debate about what a forest is for—and how to protect it ...

We’ve stopped here out of curiosity about the Yaak Valley, and the people, all 250 of them, who make it home. ... The only functioning gas pump in Yaak, Montana, sits across from the Dirty Shame.

In the rugged, remote northwest corner of Montana, the Yaak River Valley is a picture postcard of some yesteryear. Moose muse among the willows. Elk graze on the slopes. White-tailed deer browse ...

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 – 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.

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 Yaak is small by Montana standards — a tributary of the colossal Kootenai River — but what it lacks in size it makes up for with splendor and mystique. The Yaak Valley’s rainforest-like ...

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.

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.

PORTLAND, Maine— Renowned musicians, authors, poets and tribal elders will come together Sunday in Portland, Maine, to raise awareness about threats to northern Montana’s ancient Yaak Valley and ...

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.