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Idaho governor, ranchers dispute slickspot peppergrass listing PDF Print E-mail
Written by ROCKY BARKER, Idaho Statesman   
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Gov. Butch Otter said the federal government has let down the ranchers and others in Idaho who stepped forward to help a rare flowering bush that grows in the Foothills and in wet areas of Southwest Idaho's desert - even though it was not protected under the Endangered Species Act.

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Montana ends wolf hunt 2 weeks early PDF Print E-mail
Written by Daily Inter Lake   
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
With seven wolves harvested over the weekend in Northwest Montana and three in Southwest Montana, the state’s wolf-hunting season officially closed Monday night.

 
Groups sue to stop uranium mine near Grand Canyon PDF Print E-mail
Written by CINDY COLE, Arizona Daily Sun   
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Three conservation groups filed suit Monday to block the first proposed uranium mine in northern Arizona in more than a decade, north of the Grand Canyon.

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Federal judge nixes Utah bidder's 'choice of evils' defense PDF Print E-mail
Written by KIRK JOHNSON, New York Times   
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
A college student who bid on and won more than $1.8 million in federal oil and gas leases last year without the intent or ability to pay will not be allowed to argue in court that he acted out of necessity to protect the environment, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

 
Federal agencies buy key parcels in Colorado, Montana, Nevada PDF Print E-mail
Written by DAVID FREY, NewWest.net   
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
The Bureau of Land Management announced on Monday it is buying a key piece of private land in the midst of southwest Colorado’s Canyon of the Ancients National Monument believed to hold hundreds of undocumented prehistoric sites.

 
Report: Montana's carbon dioxide emissions up 36 percent PDF Print E-mail
Written by MIKE DENNISON, Missoulian   
Monday, 16 November 2009

Montana's output of emissions that cause global warming has increased by 10 million metric tons since 1990, a 36 percent increase, according to a report compiled by Environment America, a national conservation group.

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Idaho, anglers take advantage of record run of steelhead PDF Print E-mail
Written by RICH LANDERS, Spokane Spokesman-Review   
Monday, 16 November 2009
The Snake River’s record run of steelhead has been parading upstream and delivering pleasure and profit from the mouth of the Columbia upstream 800 miles to the Salmon, Idaho, area— and beyond.

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Wild horses advocates head to court over BLM roundup plan PDF Print E-mail
Written by MARTIN GRIFFITH, Salt Lake Tribune   
Monday, 16 November 2009
Wild horse advocates say they have no recourse but the courts after federal land managers rejected their request for an immediate moratorium on mustang roundups.

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Company's coal lease in SE Montana puts pressure on state PDF Print E-mail
Written by MATTHEW BROWN, Great Falls Tribune   
Monday, 16 November 2009
Arch Coal Inc. has signed a lease agreement to mine the vast Otter Creek coal field in southeastern Montana — ramping up pressure on Gov. Brian Schweitzer and other state officials to lease adjacent coal tracts controlled by the state.

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Montana tribes' wolf plan is based on wolves' behavior PDF Print E-mail
Written by VINCE DEVLIN, Missoulian   
Friday, 13 November 2009
How the gray wolf population is managed on the Flathead Indian Reservation will largely be up to the wolves.

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Wyoming's beetle-killed forests could close areas near Yellowstone PDF Print E-mail
Written by Casper Star-Tribune   
Friday, 13 November 2009
Dozens of popular camping spots on public land around Yellowstone National Park could be closed next summer as the U.S. Forest Service focuses regional spending priorities on the effects of widespread bark beetle infestations in southern Wyoming and Colorado.

 
Nevada presses federal gov't to test aquifers for radioactivity PDF Print E-mail
Written by RALPH VARTABEDIAN, Los Angeles Times   
Friday, 13 November 2009
Reporting from Yucca Flat, Nev. - A sea of ancient water tainted by the Cold War is creeping deep under the volcanic peaks, dry lake beds and pinyon pine forests covering a vast tract of Nevada.

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BLM nominates stretch of Utah canyon for historic designation PDF Print E-mail
Written by MIKE STARK, Salt Lake Tribune   
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Parts of a remote central Utah canyon decorated with ancient Indian art are being nominated for the National Register of Historic Places.

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EPA study finds elevated levels of toxins in fish in 48 states PDF Print E-mail
Written by JOHN S. ADAMS, Great Falls Tribune   
Thursday, 12 November 2009
A new federal Environmental Protection Agency study shows concentrations of toxic chemicals in fish tissue from lakes and reservoirs in nearly all 50 states, though those levels aren't considered dangerous in the Montana lakes tested.

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USGS study ranks Utah 2nd in nation in per-capita water use PDF Print E-mail
Written by PATTY HENETZ, Salt Lake Tribune   
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
A federal study shows that Utah remains at the top of the list for per-capita water use even though the state has made great strides in conservation.

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Colorado reservoir south of Denver under construction PDF Print E-mail
Written by BRUCE FINLEY, Denver Post   
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
An armada of giant yellow earthmovers on the prairie south of Denver is racing to dig one of Colorado's biggest water-supply reservoirs in decades — a hole 180 feet deep across 1,400 acres — designed to wean suburbs off waning aquifers.

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Coalition sues USFS, NPS over Yellowstone-area bison PDF Print E-mail
Written by CORY HATCH, Jackson Hole News & Guide   
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
The National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service have repeatedly violated their own mandates by hazing and slaughtering thousands of bison attempting to leave Yellowstone National Park, according to a coalition that filed a lawsuit Monday. 

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USFS rejects 56 appeals of Montana forest management plan PDF Print E-mail
Written by Montana Standard   
Monday, 09 November 2009
Forest Service officials announced this week that they had rejected all 56 appeals to the management plan for the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest that was released this year, meaning the plan will be put into practice.

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Scientists: Storage of depleted uranium in Utah 'absurd' PDF Print E-mail
Written by JUDY FAHYES, Salt Lake Tribune   
Monday, 09 November 2009
Three scientists say federal nuclear regulators owe Utahns an apology -- and a policy change -- for allowing shallow burial of depleted uranium, including the 49,000 tons already at EnergySolutions Inc.'s landfill in Tooele County.

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Project puts the meander back into Nevada river PDF Print E-mail
Written by JEFF DeLONG, Reno Gazette-Journal   
Monday, 09 November 2009
Along the Truckee River east of Sparks, experts are laboring to correct well-intended mistakes of the past.

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