Friday, September 10, 2010
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- If Canada makes good on its promise to shutter a little-used border post between Montana and Saskatchewan, there may be no choice but to close the U.S. side, even in the middle of an $8.5 million stimulus-funded upgrade, Sen. Jon Tester said Wednesday. No decisio ...
Friday, September 10, 2010 8:08 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal's endangered status in every state except Alaska and Minnesota. Va ...
Tuesday, September 07, 2010 2:09 PM
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) -- Members of the Flathead Lake Cherry Growers co-op picked about 2.75 million pounds of the fruit this summer -- more than doubling last year's harvest. Brian Campbell with the Selah, Wash.-based Monson Fruit Co., which processes, packs and ships the cherries, says las ...
Sunday, September 05, 2010 11:29 PM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Gov. Brian Schweitzer says a $16.5 million deal has been finalized for the state to buy a big ranch near Deer Lodge that is home to prized elk habitat. The deal, wrapped up Thursday, was approved by various state boards and commissions before Schweitzer gave his ...
Sunday, September 05, 2010 2:49 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Construction is slated to begin as soon as next week on a fence that officials say will keep wild horses off parts of Montana's Custer National Forest. Horse advocates said Friday that the fence along the edge of the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range would harm a ...
Sunday, September 05, 2010 2:49 PM
Defenders of Wildlife changes focus as government creates similar program BOISE (AP) -- A conservation group is ending its program to compensate ranchers for livestock killed by wolves, prompting criticism from Idaho officials including Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter. The program by The Defenders of ...
Saturday, September 04, 2010 10:09 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Scientists from universities in Montana, Colorado and Idaho announced Wednesday the start of a 5-year, $3.85 million research project into how a changing climate will influence wildfires. The project is being pursued in partnership with the U.S. Forest Servic ...
Saturday, September 04, 2010 9:29 AM
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) -- Montana's heavy moisture in late spring and early summer may not have been ideal for those who tire of mowing their lawns, but for hay producers who love seeing tall grass, it was a beautiful greeting to the growing season. After the summer's first cutting, hay ...
Saturday, September 04, 2010 9:09 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- State officials sought Tuesday to revive gray wolf hunts in the Northern Rockies, even as they entered talks with wildlife advocates whose lawsuit recently restored the animal's endangered status. Hunters in Idaho and Montana killed 260 wolves last year in the firs ...
Thursday, September 02, 2010 9:29 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A federal judge says wild horse advocates can press forward with a lawsuit challenging government roundups of a herd of the animals in southern Montana. The ruling from U.S. District Judge James Gwin of Washington, D.C., also says the government must defend a ...
Sunday, August 29, 2010 9:09 AM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- An advisory council endorsed a state plan Thursday to pay $16.5 million to buy and maintain a 27,000-acre ranch near Deer Lodge for hunting, fishing and recreation. Members of the Natural Resource Damage Trustee Council voted unanimously to recommend the purchas ...
Sunday, August 29, 2010 8:49 AM
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) -- A Wolsey woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $38,200 while working at South Dakota Wheat Growers. Thirty-three-year-old Leslie Schweigert admitted to stealing money from the sale of grain between September 2008 and March 2009. She faces up to ...
Saturday, August 28, 2010 8:48 AM
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- Three former managers and a former bookkeeper at a Bozeman-based dairy cooperative have pleaded not guilty to using company credit cards to make more than $100,000 in unauthorized purchases. Michael E. Monforton, Jeffery N. McCown, Jeanette S. McCown, and Scott M. McCo ...
Friday, August 27, 2010 7:49 AM
LEWISTON, Idaho (AP) -- A judge on Tuesday revoked special permits allowing a company to truck four oversized loads of oil refinery equipment through a federally protected river corridor, saying the state failed to address public concerns. Second District Judge John Bradbury ordered the Idah ...
Thursday, August 26, 2010 5:29 PM
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) -- State wildlife officials say pneumonia has been confirmed in a herd of about 300 bighorn sheep west of Anaconda. Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist Ray Vinkey collected samples from four members of the Lost Creek herd that were shot on Aug. 20 because they exhibited s ...
Wednesday, August 25, 2010 2:28 PM
LEWISTOWN, Mont. (AP) -- Rural residents of eastern Montana say they are digging in for a protracted fight against the possible designation of another national monument in the region. At a Friday forum hosted by Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg, several ranchers said a tentative monument pro ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010 5:29 PM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Montana officials, ranchers, and hunters frustrated by a federal judge's ruling that restored Endangered Species Act protections for wolves say it may be time to bypass the courts with congressional action. Members of the newly formed coalition lashed out Friday a ...
Sunday, August 22, 2010 10:08 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The Bureau of Land Management says it is considering giving fertility control vaccines to more wild horses in the Pryor Mountains. BLM spokesman Greg Albright said Wednesday that about 70 percent of mares in the approximately 150-horse herd have been given fer ...
Saturday, August 21, 2010 9:09 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana officials plan to rewrite the rules that allowed tens of thousands of rural homes to be built without water permits. Tom Schultz heads the water resources division with the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. He said Wednesday the agency ...
Friday, August 20, 2010 4:49 PM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The state Land Board led by Gov. Brian Schweitzer is giving its approval to a Fish, Wildlife and Parks plan to buy a 28,000-acre ranch near Deer Lodge for hunting, fishing and recreation. The Land Board unanimously endorsed the idea Monday. The $16.5 million to buy ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 11:08 AM
GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana fish and wildlife officials are proposing to conserve more than 1,600 acres of private ranch and farm land along the Missouri River, saying the wildlife habitat is in danger of becoming another housing subdivision. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks estimates ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:09 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Wildlife officials are dropping their proposal for a "research hunt" for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies. Instead, they are considering proposing a possible "conservation hunt" to trim the predators' population in the name of reducing livestock attacks. ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010 4:18 PM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- PPL Montana is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the state of Montana from seizing ownership of riverbeds and forcing rent payments, arguing other states may copy the move. PPL Montana is fighting for relief from a state Supreme Court decision forcing it to pa ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010 4:18 PM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Forest restoration projects in Montana and Idaho are among 10 nationwide that have been chosen to share $10 million under a new federal program meant to unite groups such as loggers and conservationists that may have once had competing interests. The restoration p ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010 4:18 PM
POLSON, Mont. (AP) -- On Monday, Tim Berg thought he might be running a school that would incur a near-100 percent dropout rate by the next day. But on Tuesday, 118 students showed up. Weekend thundershowers that threatened to wreak havoc with this year's Flathead Lake cherry crop did sign ...
Thursday, August 12, 2010 10:58 AM
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) -- Two rail cars carrying grain from Montana overturned in Vancouver, Wash., and dumped an estimated 15 to 20 tons of grain into streets on the edge of the city's downtown. The Columbian newspaper reports that the derailment happened at about 8 a.m. Thursday ...
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