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Olivier DJIANN/Getty Images/iStockphoto/iStockphotoThe National Weather Service is calling this Saturday "Citizens Science Day." The Billings weather office will use Facebook to highlight their weather spotters and observers and share what weather is all about. -
Power to more than 10,000 Flathead Electric Cooperative members went out Monday night in northwest Montana as strong winds pushed across the region. Thousands of people remain without power.
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Experts say low precipitation and hot temperatures have resulted in exceptionally dry soil conditions, a drought indicator that could impact crop yields. -
Amid drought conditions, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is considering emergency haying and grazing on wildlife management areas across the state.
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Farmers along the Gallatin River are getting their irrigation waters cut off amid low stream flows and hot temperatures. For some, it’s starting to hurt crop production.
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Updates are underway for the Waterfowl Protection Plan designed to keep birds out of the toxic Berkeley Pit. Cannons, sirens, drones and lasers have been effective in minimizing bird deaths, according to the project's bird protection specialist.
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BOULDER, Mont. — Twice a year, Brian Tichenor makes the 1,200-mile drive each way from his home in Kansas to a defunct uranium mine in Montana, where he takes an elevator 85 feet below the surface to sit amid radioactive radon gas to ease the pain from his chronic eye condition.
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State environmental regulators last month dropped their case to disqualify Hecla Mining from getting future mining permits in the state. The company’s CEO was previously an executive with Pegasus Gold, which abandoned mines near the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in the ‘90s, costing taxpayers $35 million to clean up.
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Additional fishing restrictions took effect Monday for rivers in western Montana. The restrictions are intended to prevent fishing during the heat of the day, when high temperatures can stress trout and other cold-water species.
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Montana’s hot, bone-dry weather this summer has been anything but ”juicy,” but that may be about to change. That’s the word National Weather Service-Missoula forecasters used this week to characterize weather expected to bring wetting rains to north-central Idaho and western Montana starting Sunday.
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A Flathead County District Court judge ruled July 21 that a Montana Department of Environmental Quality review failed to consider the full effects of a water-bottling plant near Creston.
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The City of Polson has declared a water emergency, and is the latest Montana community to implement temporary water restrictions. Water to 60 homes in the city was shut off Monday as the region faces extraordinary demand and low supply.
