Grout oversaw the recent installation of a gravel beach at the Yellow Bay Unit of Flathead Lake State Park. After decades of wave action, the park had lost so much land to shoreline erosion that ...

A large section of the north shore on Flathead Lake between Somers and Bigfork is now closed to public access to support migrating and nesting birds.

State parks officials are fast-tracking plans to install more gravel beaches around Flathead Lake as part of ongoing efforts to combat shoreline erosion. Pebbled beaches are the norm for much of ...