For most of the last decade, all the Blackfoot River news turned around the removal of Milltown Dam at its confluence with the Clark Fork River. Now the focus is at the other end, where a new mine ...

This Montana river is threatened by one senator and a bitter clash over use of public lands. ... (D-Mont.) would designate nearly 80,000 acres at the headwaters of the Blackfoot as Wilderness, ...

It was featured in Norman Maclean’s 1976 novella “A River Runs Through it” and Robert Redford’s 1992 film of the same name. The movie wasn’t filmed on Blackfoot, in part because of its ...

In 1975, a catastrophic flood blew out an earthen dam below the mine, washing hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of mine waste down the creek drainage and into the Blackfoot River.

That includes waste from mine area and material from about two miles of the headwaters of the Blackfoot River. It will take four years, including this year, to move all of the waste, Haaland said.

From its headwaters near MacDonald Pass west of Helena, the Little Blackfoot River runs along U.S. Highway 12 to join the Clark Fork River at Garrison.

The Blackfoot River is the lowest it's been in fly fishing guide KynsLee Scott's career. "I don't know how you could be a guide and not be concerned," she says. Nathan Rott/NPR hide caption ...

The Colorado River waters extend through seven states and two nations, including 277 miles through the Grand Canyon. Here's where it starts and ends. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...

John Herzer and Terri Raglund are the owners of Blackfoot River Outfitters and Flint Creek Outdoors fly shops and guide services, who have run commercial trips on the Smith River for over thirty ...

From its braided headwaters high above Nederland in Indian Peaks Wilderness to the rolling farmlands where it flows into the South Platte River, Boulder Creek is a stream of many personalities. It’s ...

The Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Project Steering Committee, including Smoke Elser, Jack Rich, Jim Stone, Mack and Connie Long, Jon Haufler, Addrien Marx, Lee Boman, Gordy Sanders, Bill Wall ...

A Nevada-based mineral company has announced plans to develop a mine near the headwaters of the West Fork of the Bitterroot River in western Montana. If approved, the project could extract ...