The fishers slipped into the Cabinet Mountains on New Year's Day 1989. Moving quietly and stealthily, their elongated bodies ...

CABINET MOUNTAINS WILDERNESS — A little less than a half-mile up the trail to Leigh Lake, just about when the incline begins to get annoying, there’s a light blue sign screwed to a tree. Over the ...

The Cabinet Mountains Wilderness is a 35-mile island of glaciated peaks and valleys flanked by U.S. Highway 2 and Libby to the northeast and Montana Highway 200 and Noxon on the southwest. The name ...

https://www.hcn.org/external_files/allimages/2002/feb18/graphics/020218.007.jpg Locator map of Cabinet Mountains Wilderness inMontana Western Montana’s Cabinet ...

A proposed mine beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness that has been a beacon of hope for mining proponents and a source of concern for environmental groups could get a green light from federal ...

Consider the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, designated in 1964 as one of only 10 flagship wilderness areas in the newly-created National Wilderness Preservation System. The Cabinets are beloved by all ...

HELENA (AP) — A proposed silver and copper mine that would burrow under a wilderness area in northwestern Montana will not affect bull trout, nor will it harm grizzly bears as long as additional ...

HELENA (AP) — A Washington company has applied for the state permit necessary to operate a copper and silver mine beneath Montana's Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Area near the Idaho border. Mines ...

Photo illustration by Getty Images. The federal government announced last week that the U.S. Forest Service approved a mining company’s exploration permit at an old mining site south of Libby.

This is the first installment in a series of stories on the 60th anniversary of the Wilderness Act that will publish this month. The series will continue next Sunday. CABINET MOUNTAINS WILDERNESS – A ...

A proposed mine beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness that has been a beacon of hope for mining proponents and a source of concern for environmental groups could get a green light from federal ...