For decades, the Bureau of Land Management has considered 90% of the 8 million acres it manages in Montana suitable for oil and gas leasing. It doesn’t matter if the lands offer any real production potential or if leasing and drilling harm the wildlife habitat, water quality, cultural riches, recreational opportunities and everything else on […]
Wildfires play an essential ecological role in our forests, but the fires we’ve seen in recent years have been more intense than ever before, with fire seasons lasting longer than ever before as well. The intensity of fires and the longer-lasting fire season are no doubt a result of both climate change and a century […]
