Oct. 25—Autumn in western Montana is like a warm-hued sunset. Fields turn yellow in the last throes of summer heat as golden eagles and red-tailed hawks soar far overhead. Mushrooms in every shade of ...

It’s the perfect time to pay a visit to the Metolius Preserve. When I visited the Larch Trails last weekend, the Western larch trees were a shocking vibrant hue of yellow. During points of the ...

SEELEY LAKE, Mont. — A thousand years ago, a new life began near present day Seeley Lake. The only witnesses to his youth would have been the Indigenous People. He was already 200-years-old when the ...

Stephen F. Arno of Missoula has self-published through Amazon a book on the ecology and history of the Northwestern larch titled “Golden Trees of the Mountain West.” According to the book’s cover, ...

Gus, center, stands in a Jim Girard Memorial Grove in Lolo National Forest. (Hailey Smalley/Daily Inter Lake) Gus is the largest known western larch tree in the world, standing 154 feet tall. (Hailey ...