David Reese
Environmental group sues feds over grizzly bear recovery plan
The federal government has failed to address grizzly bear recovery in the bear’s historic range in certain Western states, the Center for Biological Diversity said in a lawsuit filed in Montana Thursday.
Feds sued to stop use of bear bait by hunters in Idaho, Wyoming
The groups say the government has violated the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act by allowing incidental kills of grizzlies by black bear hunters using bait.
Neo-Nazi website founder forfeits defense in ‘troll storm’ suit by Whitefish family
The publisher of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website who unleashed a “troll storm” on a Jewish family in Montana failed to show up for a deposition in New York, leading to an entry of default against him Tuesday. Andrew Anglin publishes the Daily Stormer, a modern-day version of the Nazi-era anti-Semitic newspaper Der Sturmer.
Montana ACLU takes on bounty hunters in Missoula bail-bond lawsuit
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against private companies that use armed bounty hunters to capture people who jump bail, claiming they did not have authority to drag a Montana man who missed a court hearing out of bed at gunpoint.
Watchdog groups object to government’s revisions to rules on information requests
Claiming that its workload in the last two years has become increasingly burdensome, the Department of Interior is seeking to tighten rules that cover Freedom of Information Act requests.
Study: Vast forests needed to offset effects of burning coal for electricity
The study, published in Scientific Reports, said a coal-fired generator that creates one gigawatt of electricity – enough power for about 700,000 homes – would require a new forest larger than the state of Maryland to neutralize all the carbon it emits.
Blue wave slow to rise in Montana, other Western states
The blue wave that Democrats had hoped would carry them to a Senate majority didn’t quite wash over the West on Tuesday night, with losses in Utah and North Dakota, and a race too close to call in Montana.
Montana judge: Feds failed to protect endangered Canada lynx from trappers
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service failed to adequately protect endangered Canada lynx from being accidentally killed or injured by bobcat trappers, a federal judge ruled.
Floating the Missouri with the ghosts of Lewis and Clark
After a while, your neck gets sore. Not from the paddling so much as from the gawking — staring up at the colossal spires rising from the sagebrush along the Upper Missouri River.
Montana farmers, ranchers brace for retaliatory Chinese tariffs
Montana farmers and cattle ranchers have mixed emotions this year as Independence Day approaches. That’s because July 6 is the date when the Chinese government has vowed to begin collecting a 25 percent additional tariff on agricultural imports from the U.S.