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Written by ROCKY BARKER, Idaho Statesman
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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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Written by Daily Inter Lake
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 |
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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.
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Written by CINDY COLE, Arizona Daily Sun
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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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Written by KIRK JOHNSON, New York Times
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 |
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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.
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Written by DAVID FREY, NewWest.net
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 |
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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.
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Written by MIKE DENNISON, Missoulian
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Monday, 16 November 2009 |
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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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Written by RICH LANDERS, Spokane Spokesman-Review
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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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Written by MARTIN GRIFFITH, Salt Lake Tribune
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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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Written by MATTHEW BROWN, Great Falls Tribune
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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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Written by VINCE DEVLIN, Missoulian
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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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Written by Casper Star-Tribune
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Friday, 13 November 2009 |
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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.
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Written by RALPH VARTABEDIAN, Los Angeles Times
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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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Written by MIKE STARK, Salt Lake Tribune
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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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Written by JOHN S. ADAMS, Great Falls Tribune
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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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Written by PATTY HENETZ, Salt Lake Tribune
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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. Read more... |
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Written by BRUCE FINLEY, Denver Post
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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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Written by CORY HATCH, Jackson Hole News & Guide
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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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Written by Montana Standard
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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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Written by JUDY FAHYES, Salt Lake Tribune
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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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Written by JEFF DeLONG, Reno Gazette-Journal
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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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