Forest Service tentatively approves Crazy Mountain land swap
The U.S. Forest Service announced that it has tentatively approved a land swap several years in the making involving more than 15 square miles of land located in two Montana mountain ranges.
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‘Turning a corner’: Stakeholders cautiously optimistic about clean-up of Smurfit-Stone pulp mill
More than a decade after a pulp mill along the Clark Fork River closed, stakeholders are encouraged by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s pledge to assess contamination risks posed by climate change.
Discovery Ski Area goes solar
Discovery Ski Area anticipates a new solar array supported by a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant will offset the electricity demand for one of its primary chair lifts by 70% — and shave $11,000 off the business’ annual power bill. Funding available to support such projects has increased substantially since Congress passed the Inflation Reduction…
Environmental groups challenge logging project bordering Yellowstone National Park
In a notice of intent to sue the Custer Gallatin National Forest, the Center for Biological Diversity, Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Council on Wildlife and Fish argue that the South Plateau Project’s clear-cuts, commercial thinning and road-building will threaten grizzly bears and lynx, both of which are federally protected under the Endangered Species…
Solenex will retire last oil and gas lease in Badger-Two Medicine
The Sept. 1 settlement puts to rest a decades-old fight over energy development in a remote area of the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest bordering the Blackfeet Reservation.
EPA scales back federal wetland protections to comply with Supreme Court order
Federal rules codifying which waterways are afforded Clean Water Act protections under the “Waters of the United States,” or WOTUS, rule have been changed once more, continuing a back-and-forth regulatory saga shaped by presidential administration changes and court rulings going back at least a decade.
Will Biden and Trudeau find a framework to rein in coal-mining pollution?
The clock is running out on President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau’s self-imposed deadline to address coal-mining pollution flowing into U.S. waterways.

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