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There may be some good news on the horizon for all those core skiers and riders who like Wolf Creek just the way it is — remote, rustic and mostly undeveloped.

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The 12-year-old grizzly — the third-largest recorded in Montana — was known to inhabit the Blackfoot Valley, and some of the schoolchildren in Lincoln, Ovando, Helmville and Seeley Lake in recent weeks wrote letters to officials asking for the bear to remain in its home territory.

lol.

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Beck also claimed that “it’s these same kind of environmentalists that took the wolves out of Yellowstone Park.” In fact, the gray wolf population in Yellowstone National Park was eradicated in the late 1800s and early 1900s by federally funded predator-elimination programs.

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Carson Rife, vice president of operations at Revett Minerals Inc., said that mine managers are poised to begin digging dirt within a matter of months.

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The Wild Sky Wilderness Area was supposed to be a slam dunk in the new Democratic-controlled Congress: But a conservative Oklahoma senator has succeeded in blocking its enactment at least until early next year.

Better late than never.

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The Assembly Government aims to create 75 acres of new woodland a year by planting a native broadleaf tree for each of the 35,000 babies born and adopted child in Wales.

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However, federal officials have made a number of changes to the state plan, some of which could impact the management of roadless lands on the Sawtooth National Forest. One of those would put fewer restrictions on uses of the southern Pioneer Mountains.

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The U.S. Forest Service is closing an off road vehicle trail system in the Nantahala National Forest to limit damage and muddy runoff into trout streams. Intensive use has turned some of the ORV trails into ditches more than seven feet deep.