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Utah county tables approval of Rocky Mountain Power line route Rocky Mountain Power's plan to build a transmission line from the Idaho border to Weber County, passing through Box Elder County en route, will have to wait a bit for the Box Elder County Commission's approval, after the commission tabled the resolution approving the route, which is opposed by many residents of the Utah county. Salt Lake Tribune; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Colorado water district plumbs Wolford Reservoir's power potential The Colorado River District is investigating the possibility of putting a hydroelectric energy plant at Wolford Reservoir in Grand County. Vail Daily; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Stock market plunge takes down Wyoming institute, film fest Following Monday's precipitous drop in the stock market, the Jackson Hole Film Institute closed its doors; the Wyoming institute, which depends heavily on private donations for funding, had been struggling before Monday but the drop in the stock market sealed its fate. Jackson Hole Daily; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Wyoming prepares to ship a third of its National Guard troops overseas Gov. Dave Freudenthal said he'll ask for an additional $1 million for the trust fund created to aid dependents of National Guard troops after the Wyoming National Guard announced that more than 940 of its 2,900 troops will be shipped out to Iraq and Kuwait. Casper Star-Tribune; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Colorado communities feel pinch of national credit crisis Colorado Springs and Steamboat Springs put their bond issues on hold, and Colorado's $2-billion "checking account," for local government agencies put limits on withdrawals as the national credit situation creeps into the state. Denver Rocky Mountain News; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Tribes
Tribe takes Wyoming boundary dispute to federal court A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Wyoming by the Northern Arapaho Tribe against Fremont County challenges the county's ability to levy sales taxes and to require vehicle registration, but the meat of the matter is the tribe's claim to lands in the Riverton area as part of the Wind River Indian Reservation. Casper Star-Tribune; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Environment
Judge rules wolf-trapping OK in New Mexico if federal agents do it A federal district court judge ruled that a portion of a lawsuit filed by WildEarth Guardians against Catron County was moot, since the New Mexico county had amended its ordinance that allowed the county to remove problem wolves to indicate that the county would ask federal agents to remove problem wolves. Santa Fe New Mexican (AP); Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story N.M. minnows make their way through fish channel A tour taken Wednesday by Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials of a fish channel designed to give the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow a way around Albuquerque metro area's new water supply dam provided those officials a firsthand look at how the channel was working. You may have to view an ad to read this article. Albuquerque Journal; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Federal magistrate recommends travel restrictions in Montana forest U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy will make the final decision on a lawsuit involving the Gallatin National Forest Travel Plan, but on Monday, Federal Magistrate Jeremiah C. Lynch recommended that claims filed by motorized groups challenging the Montana forest's travel plan be rejected, and ruled in favor of a group of conservation groups that had challenged the plan because it allowed too much motorized access in an area that includes Gallatin Crest. Bozeman Daily Chronicle; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story USFS makes deep cuts to pay firefighting costs After the U.S. Forest Service reported it would incur $1.6 billion in firefighting costs in fiscal year 2008, it ordered regional districts to return some funding to cover a budget shortfall, and in Nevada's Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, the nation's largest national forest in the lower 48 states, the cuts had considerable impact on fuels-reduction projects. Reno Gazette-Journal; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story BLM postpones roundup of wild horses on Montana range The Bureau of Land Management postponed indefinitely its plan to round up and remove 38 horses from the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range in Montana, and since the plan to do so expires in March, a new proposal will have to go through an environmental review. Billings Gazette; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana citizens group question proposed Smith River plan Members of the citizens advisory group that worked with the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the Lewis and Clark National Forest to draft an updated travel plan for the Smith River said they were surprised to see some of the details contained within the draft plan released on Sept. 23, such as how the lottery was conducted to issue float permits, a rule requiring all human waste be packed out, and banning all pets from float trips. Helena Independent Record; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana center gives kids an on-the-ground look at wildfire's effects To teach fire ecology, the Beartooth Nature Center Connections program takes schoolchildren on a tour of an area burned by the Cascade Fire in Montana this summer. Billings Gazette; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Drought, climate change focus of Colorado conference Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter will host next week's event sponsored by the Colorado Water Conservation Board and the Governor's Conference on Managing Drought and Climate Risk scheduled Oct. 8-10 in Denver. Denver Rocky Mountain News; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Politics
Unions agree to pull 4 initiatives off Colorado ballot Just hours before the deadline to do so, Colorado labor unions agreed to pull four initiatives off the statewide ballot. Denver Rocky Mountain News; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Michelle Obama urges Colorado students to vote At a University of Colorado speech on Tuesday, Michelle Obama switched from campaigning for her husband, the Democratic Party's presidential candidate, to urging the crowd of nearly 9,700 to register to vote and then to vote. Denver Post; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Former S.D. senator campaigns for Obama in New Mexico Former U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle, who served on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee for about 18 years, was in New Mexico on Wednesday, where he made several stops to campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, stressing Obama's commitment to American Indian issues. Farmington Daily Times; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Former GOP presidential candidate stumps for Risch in Idaho Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who ran to be the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2008, was in Idaho on Wednesday, where he held a series of meetings with Republican Lt. Gov. Jim Risch, who is running for Idaho's open U.S. Senate. Idaho Statesman (AP); Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Review shows Utah gets meager slice of federal pie Only Nevada gets less federal funding per capita than Utah, due in part to the relatively younger population of the Beehive State. Deseret News; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Legislature
Harvard, Yale grads vie for Idaho state House seat The most expensive state House race in Idaho is in District 19, which represents residents of Boise's North and East ends, is being conducted by Yale-educated Democrat Brian Cronin and his Republican opponent, Princeton graduate Republican Kevin McGowan. Idaho Statesman; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Arizona's projected budget shortfall climbs to $800 million Arizona House Speaker Jim Weiers called a rare meeting of state legislators and legislative candidates to discuss the state's ballooning projected budget deficit, which Weiers said could reach $1.3 billion, but Gov. Janet Napolitano said it was too early in the fiscal year to make drastic cuts. Arizona Republic; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Economy
Micron slashes executives' pay 20 percent after another quarterly loss Falling memory prices pushed Boise-based Micron Technology into the red for the seventh consecutive quarter, despite the Idaho company's cost-cutting efforts. Idaho Statesman; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Montana electric co-ops put climate change at top of agenda Members of Montana Electric Cooperatives' Association held their annual meeting in Great Falls on Wednesday, where climate change was the top issue in several panel discussions. Great Falls Tribune; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story
Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter and representatives from 15 Idaho companies are traveling to Asia next week to meet with businesses in several cities in an effort to drum up global interest in the state's products and to help meet the goals of Otter's Project 60 initiative, unveiled last week to boost the state's Gross Domestic Product by $9.5 billion to $60 billion before Otter's term ends. Coeur d'Alene Press; Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story Hewlett-Packard buys Colorado data storage firm for $360M Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Boulder-based LeftHand Network, a data storage and software company, will allow HP to reach mid-range customers. Denver Post (Bloomberg News); Oct. 2 Add Comment View Comments(0) Email Story |
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