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Group seeks grant to study aquifer underlying 6 Montana counties The Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology is seeking funding to study the Madison aquifer, which supplies ranchers, communities and industry with water in six Montana counties, and on Tuesday the Cascade County Commission voted to support the bureau's grant application for funding from state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. Great Falls Tribune; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana rancher puts beef on the shelves of local food bank As part of the Montana Cattlemen’s Association Charitable Foundation effort to donate meat from 100 head of cattle to charitable organizations in 2008, a rancher in the Centennial Valley donated 2,500 pounds of beef -- about five animals' worth -- to the Gallatin County Food Bank. Bozeman Daily Chronicle; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes
Wal-Mart signs lease with tribe for new store in Arizona The Colorado River Indian Tribes will lease 11 of a 23-acre site in Parker to Wal-Mart to build a 100,000-square-foot store, which should be built and open by mid-2009, bringing about 200 new jobs and up to $400,000 in sales tax revenue for the Arizona tribe. Indian Country Today; May 13 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Senate panel hears tribes' frustration with BIA processes Montana Sen. Jon Tester and Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso were among the Senate panel members who heard from tribal leaders about their frustration with the Bureau of Indian Affairs on Tuesday, and the need for federal legislation to expand tribes' self-governance. Casper Star-Tribune; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
Idaho ranchers sign on for non-lethal wolf control project The Blaine County Commission authorized spending $1,500 to help fund a joint project with the federal Wildlife Services and the Idaho Fish and Game Department that will help three ranching outfits with grazing rights on the Sawtooth National Forest's Ketchum Ranger District put non-lethal measures to ward off wolves into place, including electrified pens for livestock and radio-activated guard boxes that blare loud noises to deter wolves. Idaho Mountain Express; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tiny Colorado moth flies off to Washington D.C. for a name The tiny moth captured by Grand Junction residents and sent along to Bob Hammon, the area extension agent from Colorado State University, isn't new to the state, but apparently no one ever cared enough about the bug to give it a name, a situation that will be rectified now that the moth has been sent to the Smithsonian Institution to get one. Grand Junction Sentinel; May 13 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story NPS grant pays off mortgage for Montana compost facility Gallatin County's $3.7 million mortgage for its West Yellowstone-Hebgen Basin Composting Facility was paid off with money from a $4 million grant from the National Park Service, which sends every shred of compost-ready material to the Montana facility. Bozeman Daily Chronicle; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Oklahoma company plans seismic survey of Wyoming leases The plans of Oklahoma-based Devon Energy to drill two exploratory wells near Little Mountain south of Rock Springs has drawn a lot of opposition, including from Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal, and now the company is planning to conduct a seismic survey of its leases to help determine where best to drill the two wells. Casper Star-Tribune; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story
Mule deer populations in an area burned by the 2006 Derby fire fell to the lowest level in 28 years, and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials said the destruction of sagebrush habitat led to abnormally high mortality rate of adult mule deer this winter. Billings Gazette; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Crews perform 'open-heart surgery' on Montana creek Under the Future Fisheries Improvement Program, a statewide partnership of government agencies, landowners, nonprofit groups and private foundations, a tributary of Montana's Blackfoot River, Lincoln Spring Creek, is being reconstructed. Missoulian; May 13 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
Bill Clinton tells Montanans: 'This race is not over' More than 2,800 Montanans turned out on a chilly, rainy evening in the Flathead Valley to hear former President Bill Clinton talk about Sen. Hillary Clinton's plans for healthcare, renewable energy and the war in Iraq. Flathead Beacon; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Nevada state lawmaker officially joins race for Congress State Sen. Dina Titus announced her candidacy for the Democratic Party's nomination for Nevada's 3rd Congressional District seat, now held by Republican Rep. Jon Porter. Las Vegas Review-Journal; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Nuclear power, dairy odors on agenda at Idaho county debate The four candidates for the Jerome County Commission fielded questions on nuclear power, rules governing dairy operations and how they would respond to concerns presented by residents of the Idaho county at a debate Tuesday night. Twin Falls Times-News; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Legislature
Montana DEQ, gravel industry ask lawmakers to revisit open-cut laws After recent district court rulings that forced the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to issue open-cut mining permits for four Gallatin County gravel pits without completing required environmental reviews because the DEQ could not complete the work done in the 30-day timeframe, DEQ and industry officials asked the legislative Environmental Quality Council to do something in the 2009 legislative session to fix open-cut mining laws. Great Falls Tribune; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Arizona lawmakers cram bill to ease graduation rules through Senate The Arizona House must again give approval to legislation that would allow high school students that have good grades but failed one portion of the state's required graduation test to graduate. Arizona Republic; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
Wyoming panel continues hearing on Exxon's CO2 venting The hearing before the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission on allowing Exxon Mobil to continue venting carbon dioxide from its Shute Creek gas plant in Lincoln County was continued until next month; the commission is mulling whether the CO2 is marketable. Casper Star-Tribune; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story B.C. forest company to sell timberlands to pay down debt Like other British Columbia-based forest companies, Western Forest Products has been hit hard by declining demand for its products and the higher value of the Canadian dollar, and with a first-quarter loss of $17 million, the company has hired an investment banker to help sell 64,200 acres of its land, most of it on Vancouver Island. Vancouver Sun; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Idaho millworkers move on after Coeur d'Alene mill closes Stimson Lumber Co.'s DeArmond Stud Mill will process its last log on Friday, and the 70 or so employees of the Idaho mill are preparing to move on, some literally, to jobs locally or in Oregon and other states, while others are contemplating going back to school. Coeur d'Alene Press; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Engineering firms help build demand for office space in Denver Demand for commercial office space in Denver has defied national trends and is on the rise, and three national engineering firms are among the companies driving up demand for office space in the Colorado city. Denver Post; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story RealtyTrac: Foreclosures up 79 percent in Idaho A report from California-based RealtyTrac Inc. that tracks foreclosures across the nation said that foreclosures in April in Idaho were up 15 percent from March, and 79 percent from April of 2007. Idaho Statesman; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Utah job market holds steady A report from the Utah Department of Workforce Services said the state's 2 percent job growth in April was virtually unchanged from March's 2.1 percent, and considerably higher than the national job growth rate of 0.3 percent. Salt Lake Tribune; May 14 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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