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High waters takes toll on Montana bridge The Ninth Street Bridge that crosses the Yellowstone River in Livingston is closed after high waters caused a bridge, which also carries a natural gas line to an island in the river, to buckle. Bozeman Daily Chronicle; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story FEMA analysis: Flood risk high in 7 Front Range counties in Colorado As part of a national effort to assess flood risks, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is mapping Colorado counties' flood risk, and the agency classified Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, El Paso, Jefferson and Larimer as high-risk flood zones. Denver Rocky Mountain News; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes
U.S. Senate considers bill to boost tribes' law enforcement efforts Senate Indian Affairs Committee Chairman Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., submitted draft legislation that would give tribes more federal resources and assistance to combat and prosecute crimes. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (AP); June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Congress begins effort to find new trustee for Utah Navajo Trust Fund At the request of U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, the House Natural Resources committee began exploring options to replace the state of Utah as trustee of the Utah Navajo Trust Fund that included the Navajo Nation stepping in; the seven tribes in Utah creating a nonprofit organization to manage the funds; or allowing the Navajo Health System in Montezuma Creek to assume responsibility for the fund. Salt Lake Tribune; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Red Feather helps build reservation housing, one home at a time The Red Feather Development Group, which helps tribal members construct their own homes, was in Montana this week, helping build a third straw-bale house on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. Billings Gazette; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
Rey asks Rainbow Family to move its gathering At a meeting Thursday evening, members of the Rainbow family met with Wyoming residents and U.S. Forest Service officials, including Mark Rey, the federal undersecretary who oversees the Forest Service, who made the trip from Washington D.C. to ask the Rainbow Family to move its July gathering to one of four sites in the Bridger Wilderness better suited to handle the impact of thousands of campers. Casper Star-Tribune; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(1) Email Story Group seeks national designation of Utah's Nine Mile Canyon At a meeting Thursday of the Utah Board of State History, some board members said they supported adding Nine Mile Canyon to the National Register of Historic Places, but they said that request had to be made by the Bureau of Land Management. Salt Lake Tribune; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Workers chain-saw defensible space around Colorado resort town The U.S. Forest Service, Eagle County and Vail launched a multi-year effort to remove beetle-killed timber from around homes in the Colorado community to reduce wildfire risk. Vail Daily; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Crews have Utah's first wildfire of the season nearly contained The Corn Creek fire near Escalante burned more than 2,269 acres in the Dixie National Forest in Utah. Salt Lake Tribune; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Sun Road in Glacier National Park in Montana still snowbound Last week's snowstorm dumped a couple of feet of new snow on the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, and park officials said the entire 52-mile road through the park in Montana may not be cleared of snow until after the 4th of July. Missoulian; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
Alberta finance minister says province will be hit hard by 'carbon tax' Unlike Ontario and Quebec, which rely more heavily on clean hydropower, Alberta's electricity is mostly generated by coal and oil, which means residents of Alberta will be hit hardest by the federal Liberal proposed carbon tax plan. Edmonton Journal; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story
Four of the six candidates seeking to fill Wyoming's lone congressional seat attended a forum hosted by the Wyoming Mining Association, where they acknowledged the state's role in the nation's energy picture and discussed addressing energy needs and environmental concerns. Casper Star-Tribune (AP); June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Burns won't speak on McCain's behalf at Montana GOP convention Former U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns is Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign chairman for Montana, but Burns won't be speaking on McCain's behalf at the Montana GOP state convention this weekend, having been replaced with Rod Knutson, who spent time in Vietnamese prisoner of war camps with McCain. Billings Gazette (AP); June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Legislature
N.M. governor says there will be special session on health care Some New Mexico lawmakers aren't so sure they'll show up for a special session Gov. Bill Richardson has vowed to call later this summer on the state's health care plan. Santa Fe New Mexican (AP); June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana municipalities promise to pursue local option sales tax The Montana League of Cities and Towns said it will work to push a local option sales tax through the state Legislature in 2009. Missoulian; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
B.C. timber company lays off 2,000 workers Western Forests Products officials said a decline in demand for cedar products forced them to shut down its sawmill on Vancouver Island and suspend half its logging operations in July and August. Vancouver Sun; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Groups get an on-the-ground look at wind-farm site in Idaho Portland-based Renewable Energy Systems America Developments, the company that wants to build a 185-turbine wind project southwest of Rogerson near the Idaho-Nevada border, took members of Bureau of Land Management resource advisory councils from Idaho's Twin Falls District and Nevada’s Northeastern Great Basin on a tour of the proposed site on Thursday. Twin Falls Times-News; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Aspen Skiing Co., USFS team up on wind project The U.S. Forest Service and Aspen Skiing Co. will install a 33-foot-tower on the top of the Cirque at Snowmass Ski Area with a device designed to determine in there is enough wind to power wind turbines, and if that pans out, the Forest Service would install three 1.7-megawatt turbines. Aspen Times; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Nonprofits make up Wyoming's fourth-largest economic sector According to the National Center for Charitable Statistics, Urban Institute, the number of nonprofits in Wyoming grew from 531 to 895 between 1995 and 2005, fueled by an increase in needs and a heightened awareness of philanthropy. Casper Star-Tribune; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Report ranks New Mexico 37th in nation in personal income growth A report issued Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis said personal income across the nation grew by 1.1 percent in the first quarter of 2008; Utah, Arizona and Colorado had the highest increase in personal income, while Montana, Idaho and Nevada were ranked in the lowest quintile. Farmington Daily Times; June 20 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story
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