The Custer Gallatin National Forest finalized a plan on Friday that will guide forest management over 3 million acres in Montana and South Dakota for the next 10 to 15 years.
The 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.
Amid drought conditions, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks approved emergency grazing leases on wildlife management areas on Monday. The majority of public comments received on the proposal were in opposition to allowing livestock on wildlife lands.
Experts say low precipitation and hot temperatures have resulted in exceptionally dry soil conditions, a drought indicator that could impact crop yields.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rachel Cramer/The Custer Gallatin National Forest finalized a plan on Friday that will guide forest management over 3 million acres in Montana and South Dakota for the next 10 to 15 years.
Amid drought conditions, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks approved emergency grazing leases on wildlife management areas on Monday. The majority of public comments received on the proposal were in opposition to allowing livestock on wildlife lands.
