Black Ram is in Yaak Valley, itself part of the Kootenai National Forest, which excels at storing significant amounts of carbon in long-term safekeeping. It’s the wettest place in Montana. It’s the ...

The Yaak Valley Forest Council conducted a road survey on the Kootenai National Forest in 2020 and 2021 and submitted numerous photos to the Forest Service documenting well-worn tracks going ...

FILE - A Grizzly bear walk through Yellowstone National Park near Mammoth, Wyo., May 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Billings Gazette, David Grubbs, File) PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) — The approval and subsequent ...

In 2017, the USFS staff responsible for the Kootenai National Forest (KNF) proposed a sweeping 95,000-acre forest-management plan, called the Black Ram project, to “improve resilience and ...

Bass describes Black Ram as a “holdover” of the Trump administration. In 2018 then President Donald Trump mandated increased logging in national forests, ostensibly to reduce wildfire.

The order prohibited the U.S. Forest Service from implementing the project, which was expected to last 10 years. The Black Ram project would have allowed nearly 4,000 acres of the Kootenai National ...

The order prohibited the U.S. Forest Service from implementing the project, which was expected to last 10 years. The Black Ram project would have allowed nearly 4,000 acres of the Kootenai National ...

This August, a federal judge in Montana halted the logging slated to happen in Kootenai National Forest (aka the Black Ram Project). Which brings us to the event on Sunday night.

The Black Ram Project encompasses more than 90,000 acres of federal forest land, while clear-cutting some areas, harvesting timber from others, and completing more than 90 miles of road construction.

The Black Ram Project encompasses more than 90,000 acres of federal forest land, while clear-cutting some areas, harvesting timber from others, and completing more than 90 miles of road construction.