Tristan Scott is a Managing Editor at various publications, including the Billings Gazette Communications and the Helena Independent Record. He focuses on themes such as climate change and the environment, construction and real estate, as well as regional interest and world news, with a particular emphasis on environmental services, forestry, and natural resources. Tristan's work has been featured in notable outlets like KPVI-DTV, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, and The Times of Northwest Indiana.
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Tristan Scott's articles predominantly cover local government announcements, legal policy regulations, and events in the Flathead Valley area of Montana. The topics covered include Glacier National Park, BNSF Railway, Flathead Valley, conservation, and hunting.
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By: Tristan Scott
For anglers, blue-ribbon trout streams are characterized by free-flowing water that’s clear, cold and full of fish. But in the past decade, the chilly streams that sustain Montana’s prized trout species have been warming up and drying out as a result of rising global temperatures. As stream gauges across the state register historic high temperatures […]
The Basics Glacier National Park closed out 2025 as its third-busiest year on record, surpassing 3.1 million visitors and marking the fifth time in Glacier’s 116-year history that it’s broken the 3-million-visitor barrier. Even so, park officials have decided to scrap a controversial vehicle-reservation system aimed at mitigating summertime symptoms of over-visitation in favor of […]
By: Tristan Scott
Local conservation groups on June 5 sued the Flathead National Forest for authorizing a timber sale in grizzly bear and bull trout habitat under an emergency exception to the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Rather than examine the potential effects of logging road construction on federally protected species, plaintiffs in the lawsuit, the Swan View Coalition […]
By: Tristan Scott
The initial phase of a project to secure public access and remove development rights on 47,907 acres of private timberland in the Upper Thompson River drainage moved forward last week when the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission approved the purchase of a conservation easement. On June 12, the commission’s unanimous vote in support of the […]
By: Tristan Scott
As a fisheries biologist with the Flathead National Forest, Pat Van Eimeren spent much of his 30-year career evaluating logging projects to ensure they didn’t jeopardize native fish habitat. Today, Van Eimeren is retired, which means he spends more time in his own natural habitat, hunting and fishing in remote corners of northwest Montana while […]
By: Tristan Scott
As Glacier National Park braces for another busy summer season, driven by record crowds that continue to set the park’s agenda and define its path forward, the park’s operating budget has remained stuck in the past. Fortunately, Glacier’s longtime fundraising partner is helping the park, and its millions of visitors, keep pace with the future. […]
By: Tristan Scott
Although northwest Montana and Glacier National Park have historically remained one of the best strongholds for native bull trout in the state, the region has seen its wild populations of the threatened species decimated by the explosion of invasive lake trout, as well as through hybridization with other nonnative species. Fisheries managers also blame reduced […]
By: Tristan Scott
An unlikely alliance of corporate timber interests, conservation advocates, state wildlife managers, and federal grantmakers this week completed the initial phase of a land deal to secure public access and remove development rights across more than 34,600 acres of private timberland in northwest Montana’s Upper Thompson River drainage. The diverse group of stakeholders closed on […]
By: Tristan Scott
Depending on whom you ask, the Flathead County Republicans either did or did not call a lawful meeting to order on Thursday night. Although precinct leaders and executive committee members of the Flathead County Republican Central Committee (FCRCC) could not reach consensus on even that seemingly straightforward question — of whether a valid meeting to […]
Late last year, following a strategic purchase that blocked development plans at a hub of outdoor recreation in the Flathead Valley, the stewards of the Whitefish Trail began laying plans for a newly acquired 35-acre property in the Beaver Lakes area north of town. On Wednesday, July 15, from 4-8 p.m., the nonprofit Whitefish Legacy […]
