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"We don't know these 320,000 acres. You do," said Caroline Byrd of The Nature Conservancy. Which is why TNC and the Trust for Public Lands held a public meeting in Evaro Wednesday evening, the first of many to be held in communities around Western Montana. About 20 people lined the wooden benches of the Evaro Community Center to learn about the nuts and bolts of the Montana Legacy Project. And, ...
New West Missoula - 10:08 a.m.
by jhwygirl Sent to me by an astute reader, Governor Schweitzer fired off a letter on Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, criticizing Wyoming’s elk feedgrounds, which many say are a breeding ground for brucellosis. Bravo! This was one of the developments out of Tuesdays Board of Livestock meeting - the other being the revival of the [...]...
4&20 Blackbirds - 8:09 a.m. - 2 clicks 
by jhwygirl Standing in front of a solar panel, Montana’s congressman, Representative “I-sleep-on-my-couch” Rehberg announced his plan for America’s Energy Independence. Rehberg has proudly supporting 7 bills: HR 3089 which builds more oil refineries and “making available more homegrown energy through environmentally sensitive exploration of the Arctic Energy Slope an...
4&20 Blackbirds - 7:01 a.m.
The Atlantic's summer fiction issue is out, and it includes a new story by Missoula's Aryn Kyle, who launched her career in that magazine in 2004 with "Foaling Season," which won a National Magazine Award. She later extended that story into her first novel, The God of Animals. Kyle's new story, "Nine," also features a young protagonist, and Kyle's deft way with children as characters is one of t...
New West Bozeman - Wed 7:34 p.m. - 4 clicks
The Nature Conservancy and The Trust for Public Land will be making presentations this week and next in Missoula County communities on the non-profits' purchase of 320,000 acres of Montana land owned by Plum Creek Timber Co., known as the Montana Legacy Project. The first meeting is tonight at 7:00 in Evaro. The full schedule is after the jump. For more on the Legacy Project, dubbed "the lar...
New West Missoula - Wed 2:03 p.m. - 8 clicks
The Atlantic's summer fiction issue is out, and it includes a new story by Missoula's Aryn Kyle, who launched her career in that magazine in 2004 with "Foaling Season," which won a National Magazine Award. She later extended that story into her first novel, The God of Animals. Kyle's new story, "Nine," also features a young protagonist, and Kyle's deft way with children as characters is one of t...
New West Missoula - Wed 2:03 p.m. - 5 clicks
by jhwygirl Saying brucellosis “does not belong in our future,” Suzanne Lewis, the superintendent of Yellow-stone National Park, pledged Monday to work with Montana’s Board of Livestock to eradicate the disease. That, from today’s Billings Gazette. …eradicate the disease”? From Yellowstone? While the Bridger-Teton National Forest, to the south, is approving ...
4&20 Blackbirds - Tue 7:03 p.m. - 11 clicks
Mark Finney, a scientist with the Forest Service's Fire Science Lab in Missoula put it pretty clearly when talking to Matthew Frank at NewWest.Net: "It's the paradox of fire: the more you suppress them, the worse they get," Finney says. By fighting every fire, "we end up destroying the very thing we're trying to protect." As fire season begins in the Rockies, the relative quietness of the season...
New West Bozeman - Tue 5:03 p.m. - 7 clicks
When I reached the other side of the pasture I looped the wire though an insulator and pulled hard. The wire snapped straight between the posts, raising a fence where there was none. I looked down the line as it angled from post to post and finally was lost to distance. My eyes were drawn across the grass and the broad expanse of the Deer Lodge Valley to the far horizon. I stared up at the jagged...
New West Bozeman - Tue 11:35 a.m. - 11 clicks
Why I Came West: A Memoir By Rick Bass Houghton Mifflin, 238 pages, $24 Rick Bass' new book Why I Came West is subtitled "A Memoir," but it's more of a cri de coeur. Bass spends a few pages discussing his life, explaining how he came to move to the remote Yaak Valley of northwest Montana after growing up in Houston, and devotes the rest of the book to a philosophical reflection on twenty years ...
New West Bozeman - Tue 11:35 a.m. - 7 clicks
The U.S. Army is collaborating with honeybees, via Scott Debnam and other researchers working on the University of Montana Bee Project. Known as the "bee whisperer," Debnam spoke Monday at City Club Missoula forum at the Doubletree Hotel, enthusiastically conveying his love for bees and researchers' growing understanding of them -- even how they can assist the army in locating land mines and det...
New West Missoula - Mon 7:34 p.m. - 10 clicks
When I reached the other side of the pasture I looped the wire though an insulator and pulled hard. The wire snapped straight between the posts, raising a fence where there was none. I looked down the line as it angled from post to post and finally was lost to distance. My eyes were drawn across the grass and the broad expanse of the Deer Lodge Valley to the far horizon. I stared up at the jagged...
New West Missoula - Mon 1:36 p.m. - 10 clicks
A 100-acre grass fire that ignited northwest of Missoula Sunday night near the railroad tracks at Indreland Road, off Highway 93, has been contained, but is not out. Eight to ten firefighters from Frenchtown and the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) will continue to mop up the fire throughout today. It will most likely be a few days before it is declared totally out, however...
New West Missoula - Mon 1:36 p.m. - 5 clicks
Mark Finney, a scientist with the Forest Service's Fire Science Lab in Missoula put it pretty clearly when talking to Matthew Frank at NewWest.Net: "It's the paradox of fire: the more you suppress them, the worse they get," Finney says. By fighting every fire, "we end up destroying the very thing we're trying to protect." As fire season begins in the Rockies, the relative quietness of the season...
New West Missoula - Mon 1:36 p.m. - 8 clicks
by jhwygirl Don’t forget Jay’s ActBlue page for the battleground Montana House Seats. Deadline is tomorrow, folks. We blogged this one here. Well, I finally got after it - and threw some cash out there. Not much, but every bit helps. My favs: Jill Cohenour (HD-78 ) Jennifer Pomnichowski (HD-63) Jim Elliot (HD-13) Cohenour, out of Helena, [...]...
4&20 Blackbirds - Sun 5:05 p.m. - 13 clicks
by jhwygirl Late Friday, right here in Missoula, U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy granted an injunction requested by Earthjustice and 11 other environmental groups. While those groups celebrated, Idaho and other state officials weren’t so happy. Neither was the USFWS. Ed Bangs, of the USFWS “For an injunction, you have to show irreparable harm,” Bangs said. “The hunting [...
4&20 Blackbirds - Sat 6:32 a.m. - 14 clicks
A federal judge in Missoula ordered today that gray wolves in the Northern Rockies be returned to the endangered species list, effectively halting planned fall wolf hunts in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy granted the preliminary injunction to reinstate Endangered Species Act protections for the northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf, as requested by the twelve conservati...
New West Bozeman - Fri 6:37 p.m. - 12 clicks
Missoula is home to a plethora of artists who express themselves in a variety of media. Alexia Beckerling is venturing into the studios and performance venues of a handful of local artists and bringing back multimedia glimpses into their creative worlds. In this episode, meet Jason Bohman, a "music fusion" artist who paints on stage with the Miller Creek band....
New West Bozeman - Fri 5:37 p.m. - 13 clicks
Spain-based NaturEner officially (not literally) broke ground Thursday on the first phase of a 210-megawatt wind farm on the hills between Cut Bank and Shelby, the Great Falls Tribune reports. The $500 million, 140-turbine wind farm, the first phase of which is scheduled to be completed by October, will be Montana's largest. The only other of similar scale is Judith Gap (at 135 MW)....
New West Bozeman - Fri 5:37 p.m. - 13 clicks
Carter's Brewing of Billings is on the rails, right out the back door, in fact. At Carter's, one of Montana's newest breweries, it's not only about making craft beer, but also about railroads and trains. If you're into railway culture and history, and happen to enjoy great microbrew, add this taproom to your pub crawl....
New West Bozeman - Fri 2:35 a.m. - 14 clicks
One would figure that a person running for Montana State Superintendent of Public Instruction would know that. Many thanks to Montana Headlines for pointing to Herman's website. And I do beg to differ, MH. Without going into the details of......
A Chicken is not Pillage - Jul 8 - 5 clicks
