The timeless image of a lone forest ranger winding through a mountain pass, trailing a string of pack mules is as ingrained on Western culture as the cowboy riding into the sunset. Next to Smokey the ...

A project that could have taken weeks with human power has been greatly shortened with the help from some furry friends from Wyoming. For the past week, local Forest Service managers partnered with ...

The Forest Service is taking a team approach to restoring a fire lookout on a peak overlooking the Clark Fork River. Although many helping hands are involved, the heavy lifting was done last week by a ...

The Rocky Mountain Regional Specialty Pack String gave a pack mule demonstration Saturday at Chadron State College’s Coffee Ag Pavilion. As part of the Forest Service for the South Platte Ranger ...

Patrick Hoppe and the mule pack move across one of the wide meadows that Buffalo Fork Creek winds through in this photo taken earlier this month. (Brett French/The Billings Gazette) Patrick Hoppe, of ...

There were three options: Use human labor to hike in lumber to repair a bridge along the Gore Range Trail, use mules to hike it in, or don't repair the bridge at all. Thankfully (for the trail teams) ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Northern Region Pack Train will be working on the Little Missouri National Grassland in western North Dakota through June 18. The Pack Train uses a ...

The best teachers at the Ninemile Remount Depot’s packing class never say a word, and might kick you into next week if you get a lesson wrong. Bert, Bart, Ernie and Palmer keep an impassive watch on ...

EDGEMONT - The U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Regional Specialty Pack String will be host to the 100th anniversary celebration of the Fall River County Fair, held this week in Edgemont. As part of ...

BUFFALO FORK GUARD STATION, Mont. -- The rain is pouring down hard enough to soak through "waterproof" boots. Snow and low clouds shroud the surrounding mountaintops. Across this vast and uninviting ...