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BLM document on monument proposals made public

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Written by KARL PUCKETT, Great Falls Tribune
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
A 21-page U.S. Bureau of Land Management planning document that discusses the possibility of creating a grasslands national monument in northeastern Montana was made public Monday by U.S. Sen. Jon Tester. Read more... Add Comment (0)

AP Enterprise: Old-style coal plants expanding

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Written by MATTHEW BROWN, Washington Post
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
Utilities across the country are building dozens of old-style coal plants that will cement the industry's standing as the largest industrial source of climate-changing gases for years to come. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Documents reveal ‘monumental’ plans for land by BLM

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Written by GARY HARMON, Grand Junction Sentinel
Monday, 16 August 2010
Broad swaths of western land, equivalent to the size of Colorado and Wyoming combined, should be considered “treasured lands” and managed without regard to state lines or other jurisdictional boundaries, according to an internal Bureau of Land Management document. Read more... Add Comment (0)

PPL Asks US Supreme Court to Hear Dams Case

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Written by MATT GOURAS, Flathead Beacon
Monday, 16 August 2010
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. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Gov: feds should pay for wolves in Wyoming

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Written by ANGUS M. THUERMER, JR., Jackson Hole News & Guide
Monday, 16 August 2010
Gov. Dave Freudenthal said Wednesday that if the federal government wants to set the rules for wolves in Wyoming, it can pay for their management. Read more... Add Comment (0)

A Battle in Mining Country Pits Coal Against Wind

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Written by TOM ZELLER JR., New York Times
Monday, 16 August 2010
Lorelei Scarbro’s husband, Kenneth, an underground coal miner for more than 30 years, is buried in a small family cemetery near her property here at the base of Coal River Mountain. The headstone is engraved with two roosters facing off, their feathers ruffled. Kenneth, who loved cockfighting, died in 1999, and, Ms. Scarbro says, he would have hated seeing the tops of mountains lopped off with explosives and heavy machinery by mining companies searching for coal. Read more... Check out the NY Times video Business: A Fight for a Mountaintop Add Comment (0)

Montana aims to settle lawsuit or remove, kill gray wolves

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Written by MIKE DENNISON, Missoulian
Friday, 13 August 2010
Montana's top wildlife official said Thursday if the state can't settle a lawsuit that has derailed this year's fall wolf hunt, it will press for authority to kill certain wolves to control their population. Read more... Add Comment (0)

New Colorado mining rules aimed at protecting groundwater

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Written by BRUCE FINLEY, Denver Post
Friday, 13 August 2010
Colorado mining regulators on Thursday set new rules aimed at protecting groundwater against damage from some uranium mining. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Parcel near Collbran fetches highest per-acre price at oil and gas lease sale

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Written by DENNIS WEBB, Grand Junction Sentinel
Friday, 13 August 2010
A Mesa County parcel received the highest per-acre bid Thursday in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s quarterly oil and gas lease sale in Colorado. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Feds recommend lifting block on oil leases in Montana, Dakotas

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Written by Billings Gazette
Friday, 13 August 2010
Federal officials want to move forward with oil and gas leases on more than 160,0000 acres in Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota that have been held up over climate change concerns. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Ugly but tasty aquatic creature found in Green River

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Written by AMY JOI O'DONOGHUE, Deseret News
Friday, 13 August 2010
It's ugly, a ferocious predator to other fish and was found late last month in the Green River below Flaming Gorge. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Judge halts Forest Service project

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Written by ALECIA WARREN, Coeur d'Alene Press
Friday, 13 August 2010
Keep the trees. A District Court judge ruled in favor of a Lands Council lawsuit this week by halting a Forest Service project on more than 2,000 acres in Shoshone County. Read more... Add Comment (0)

New government report: Housing poses threat to private forests

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Written by Portland Oregonian
Friday, 13 August 2010
Housing development on privately owned forest land needs to be added to the list of threats to the nation's forests, according to a U.S. Forest Service report issued today. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Polis makes wilderness plan public

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Written by RANDY WYRICK, Vail Daily
Friday, 13 August 2010
Wilderness opponents say the latest Hidden Gems proposal is an improvement for recreation, but they'd be happier if there was no proposal. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Red-letter days for Idaho Redfish

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Written by ROGER PHILLIPS, Idaho Statesman
Friday, 13 August 2010
The era of Lonesome Larry - the sole sockeye salmon to return to Idaho in 1992 - may be history. Between 1,300 and 1,500 are expected this year, which could be the most on record since 1956, when 1,381 came back. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Moab cleanup reaches 2 million ton milestone

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Written by AMY JOI O'DONOGHUE, Deseret News
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Enough uranium mill tailings to fill a 60-story building have been removed so far from a pile near the banks of the Colorado River, according to a press release issued Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Energy. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Local sportsmen group asks state to control wolves

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Written by PERRY BACKUS, Ravalli Republic
Friday, 13 August 2010
With elk populations teetering on collapse in portions of the upper Bitterroot Valley, a local sportsmen organization is asking state and federal wildlife agencies to significantly reduce the number of wolves in the region under a process allowed by the Endangered Species Act. Read more... Add Comment (0)

BLM plans wild-horse roundups

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Written by Deseret News
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Fillmore Field Office has announced plans to remove excess wild horses from the Conger Complex Herd Management Area near Garrison, east of the Nevada state line, to reduce the herd's population levels. Read more... Add Comment (0)

Idaho county dropped from consideration for site of nuclear power plant

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Written by ROCKY BARKER, Idaho Statesman
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
The developer of proposed nuclear reactor in Idaho has dropped plans to build it in Elmore County and is now focused on Payette County. Read more... Add Comment (0)

PSC grants Canadian oil pipeline eminent domain powers, but regulates access

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Written by MIKE DENNISON, Missoulian
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
State regulators have granted condemnation powers to the proposed Keystone oil pipeline across eastern Montana, but not until its developer agreed Montana has power to regulate local oil producers' access to the line. Read more... Add Comment (0)

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