2+ hour, 44+ min ago  (934+ words) Below Chair 2 at Whitefish Mountain Resort on Friday, March 6. (Kelsey Evans/Whitefish Pilot) As of early April, when snowpack-monitoring stations in Montana are typically peaking, one-third of the longer-standing sites are posting record-low totals. The upshot of the bleak state…...

19+ hour, 34+ min ago  (530+ words) Recent intense windstorms have swept across the Kootenai National Forest, leaving several areas, across all land ownerships, heavily impacted." While wind events are a common and important disturbance dynamic for forest ecosystems, these recent events resulted in unprecedented levels of…...

4+ day, 34+ min ago  (328+ words) Snowpack in the Swan Range along the ridgeline to Mount Aeneas on Wednesday, Feb. 25. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Casey Kreider The gateway community to Glacier National Park set new daily high temperatures on eight occasions last winter, eclipsing the…...