Using carbon dating, Montana State University researchers found the clutch of 30 whitebark pine trees were between 5,440 and ...

A melting ice patch in the Rocky Mountains uncovered an ancient forest, and these trees have stories to tell about dynamic landscapes and climate change ...

Today is a Weather Alert Day as a quick-hitting winter storm moves through southwest Montana with heavy snow. Blowing snow is ...

Eleanor Guerrero Carbon County News Jan 15, 2025 Jan 15, 2025 RED LODGE — Those who climb and recreate in the high country of Montana, as well as scientists, report a dramatic loss of our state ...

Winter weather advisories were in place in Washington and Alaska. These are issued "for any amount of freezing rain, or when ...

A nearly 6,000-year-old forest is once again seeing daylight after millennia hidden under ice in the Rocky Mountains. A team ...

BILLINGS – For more than 5,000 years, a stand of whitebark pine trees in the Beartooth Mountains were preserved in an ice patch. During an ancient warm period, the trees had grown at an elevatio ...

Enjoy the sunshine while it lasts. Clouds are slowly starting to take over today and by tomorrow, most of the state will be ...

On the back cover of “Beartooth,” a blurb from novelist Junot Diaz compares it to “A Simple Plan,” which is both high praise and a very dangerous game to be playing. “A Simple Plan,” which became a ...

The trees, which date back almost 6000 years, were found 600 feet (183 metres) above the current tree line on the Beartooth mountains in Wyoming. Scientists found over 30 trees during a study of ...

Melting ice high up in the Rocky Mountains has revealed an impeccably preserved forest, frozen in time for thousands of years. Beartooth Plateau, which sits at an altitude of over 10,000 feet ...