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Idaho water officials take tour of newly obtained fish farm The Idaho Water Resource Board purchased the $26-million Pristine Springs fish farm in April to help solve surface water calls and Twin Falls' arsenic issues, and yesterday members of the board took a tour of the 450-acre operation that also includes cattle ranching facilities and two hydroelectric dams in the Snake River Canyon. Twin Falls Times-News; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Condo market in downtown Salt Lake City stalls Tighter lending markets that have hobbled the sales of single-family homes along Utah's Wasatch Front are taking their toll on the downtown condo market in Salt Lake City as well. Salt Lake Tribune; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Utah developer says new law makes citizens' lawsuit moot The company that wants to build the upscale $3.5 billion Mount Holly Club in Utah's Beaver County went to court the day after a new law took effect that prohibits voter initiatives on land-use rules, and asked the court to dismiss an appeal of Beaver County residents who lost their challenge of the county's approval of the Mount Holly development; the state's Attorney General has said he believes the new law is unconstitutional. Salt Lake Tribune; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes
Appeals court says Wyoming man must be tried for killing bald eagle The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Winslow Friday, a member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe, must stand trial for killing a bald eagle on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming in 2006, reversing a federal court decision that had dismissed the criminal charges against Friday. Billings Gazette (AP); May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
USFS upgrades review of Colorado land swap to full-scale study Officials with the San Juan National Forest in Colorado said that after an initial review of a proposed land swap, they decided to conduct a full-scale environmental-impact study that will consist of five options that address key issues of the deal. Durango Herald; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana wildlife officials OK the removal of 2 wolves along the Front Two more wolves will be removed from the Monitor Mountain Pack along Montana's Rocky Mountain Front for killing livestock; three wolves were removed from the pack in December after a series of livestock incidents. Great Falls Tribune; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Small college will use federal funds to launch Great Salt Lake Institute Westminster College, a small liberal-arts school in Salt Lake City, will use federal Energy and Labor funds to establish an institute to research the briny depths of the Great Salt Lake and provide educational opportunities for schoolchildren and undergraduates. Salt Lake Tribune; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story BLM auction of energy leases in Colorado nets nearly $4 million The U.S. Bureau of Land Management auctioned 46 parcels of energy leases on 28,546 acres in Colorado on Thursday, including a 2,060-acre parcel on the Parker Basin Ranch, the sale of which had been protested because it is a calving area for an area elk herd. Grand Junction Sentinel; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana biologists radio tag more trout in Clark Fork, Blackfoot river study In order to study the effects of removing a century-old dam and the accumulated mining sediment trapped by the dam on the Clark Fork River in Montana, state fisheries biologists are radio tagging trout and releasing them below the former dam site to see if they can make their way back up the Clark Fork and Blackfoot Rivers. Missoulian; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story BuRec plans spring release from Utah dam to aid fish The federal Bureau of Reclamation will increase flows from the Flaming Gorge Dam into the Green River over the next three weeks to aid endangered razorback suckers. Salt Lake Tribune; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story President Bush signs bill that expands Idaho's Minidoka monument Under legislation signed into law on Thursday by President Bush, the Minidoka Internment National Monument, a World War II internment camp in Idaho, will expand to four times its current size. Twin Falls Times-News; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Colorado charges Texas man in bison killings An Austin man was charged with 32 counts of aggravated cruelty to animals in the March shooting of 32 bison that wandered off a neighboring ranch onto his property in Colorado. Denver Rocky Mountain News; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
Montana governor says Democratic presidential contest should go on Montana's June 3 primary is the last in the nation, and Gov. Brian Schweitzer said he sees no harm in Democratic presidential contenders Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama continuing the race until Montanans have had their say. Billings Gazette (AP); May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Wyoming gets $51 million in abandoned-mine funds The federal Office of Surface Mining announced Wednesday that it was returning $51 million in abandoned mine funds to Wyoming, the second allotment of funds paid to the state this year; the federal agency is returning coal-tax funds that were collected but never appropriated, and Wyoming will at least $82.7 million annually over the next six years. Casper Star-Tribune; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
Canadian company decides against building ethanol plant in Idaho Canada-based Iogen Corp. had considered building a cellulosic ethanol plant near Shelley for two years, and had signed contracts with farmers to provide the wheat and barley straw, corn leaves and stalks, and switch grass needed to produce the biofuel, but on Wednesday, Iogen suspended its Idaho operations to allow it to focus on developing an ethanol plant in Saskatchewan. Twin Falls Times-News (Idaho Falls Post-Register); May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Expert: B.C. sawmill business will go from bad to worse A consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers said with housing starts in the United States at half what they were two years ago, and sawmill production levels remaining steady, more British Columbia sawmills will be shuttered over the next year. Vancouver Sun; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Washington state company plans wind farm near Reardan Spokane-based Avista Utility announced Thursday that it will build a $120-million, 50-megawatt wind farm in Washington state's Lincoln County. Spokane Spokesman Review; May 9 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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