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Tracy Stone-Manning was the Director of the Bureau of Land Management under President Biden, where she oversaw the agency’s 248 million acres. Her career began in Montana, running the Clark Fork Coalition in Missoula for almost a decade and heading up the state’s environmental quality agency under Gov. Steve Bullock. She is now the president of the Wilderness Society. She sat down with Montana Public Radio’s Ellis Juhlin to discuss what's happening and how land management has changed from her time directing the BLM, to now.

Sen. Ellsworth gets his punishment. Montana's congressional delegation stands behind the Trump tariffs. Humanities Montana becomes a victim of the DOGE cuts. And, the old fight over who should own public lands resurfaces.

Montana Republican lawmakers are supporting efforts by another state to gain control of federal public lands. The resolution passed out of committee after nearly 50 people spoke against it. No one spoke in favor of it.

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks has approved the purchase of two new parcels of land in the State, along the Beaverhead River and the Big Snowy Mountains.

Hardline conservatives and moderate Republicans continued their longstanding clash at the Montana GOP convention in Billings over the weekend. Yellowstone Public Radio’s Ellis Juhlin and Montana Public Radio’s Shaylee Ragar break down who holds power and what the GOP’s priorities are ahead of the 2023 legislative session.

Montana’s state parks are experiencing a surge of visitors with record turnout in the first quarter of 2021.

Glacier National Park is considering a ticketed reservation system for visitors wanting to use Going-To-The-Sun-Road on the park’s west side. Park…

Work to address critical deferred maintenance projects through the Great American Outdoors Act will soon begin on national forests in Montana.Some…

Federal agencies are figuring out how to treat masks on public land in the wake of Gov. Greg Gianforte’s repeal of Montana’s statewide mask…

On Wednesday, the Kootenai National Forest signaled that it's moving forward on a sprawling and controversial logging project.The U.S. Forest Service says…