John Dowd For many who visit Montana, elk are as good a symbol as any of the Rocky Mountains, just as the bison represent the ...

The Museum of Mountain Flying is looking for historical material for its new museum in Stevensville. When finished, it will be the first mountain flying aviation museum launched in the Bitterroot ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The who's who of the Guilded Age not dare show their faces without must have, high fasion hats adorned with migratory birds. Once the U.S. realized it needed refuges to save species ...

HAMILTON — Legendary and prolific Bitterroot Valley photographer Ernst Peterson, born in 1912, had an uncanny knack for capturing the beauty of agriculture; the pure joy of outdoor activities like ...

CONNER (AP) -- The Medicine Tree, a towering ponderosa pine more than 300 years old and sacred to some Indian tribes, survived the Bitterroot Valley wildfires of 2000 only to succumb to a powerful ...

DARBY – There’s probably never been a time in history when the fate of the Bitterroot Valley’s landscape so hinged on a pair of bovine escapees.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Along the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, Bitterroot Valley Trapper Peak, near Sula, Montana. (Photo by Roger Peterson/ U.S.