Environment

The Bitterroot National Forest announced that U.S. Critical Materials and U.S. Critical Metals Corp. had sent a Notice of Intent that they will begin exploring for rare-earth elements on their Sheep Creek claim this year.

A GoFundMe campaign was created to raise money for litigation against the Marvin Rehbein Asphalt Plant and Gravel Pit pending on land less than 3 miles north of Arlee on the Flathead Reservation.

Under a federal judge’s order on Friday, the U.S. Forest Service may continue fighting wildfires with aerial retardants while obtaining the required permit under the Clean Water Act.

Republican Montana U.S. Rep. Matt Rosendale accused Interior Secretary Deb Haaland of violating federal public lands law by proposing the rule during an April 19 U.S. House Natural Resources hearing.

Now decades of climate change-driven drought, combined with the overpumping of aquifers, is making the valley desperately dry — and appears to be intensifying the levels of heavy metals in drinking water.

Taking into account anticipated mortality rates, Zack Bashoor estimates that the regeneration process will yield approximately one and a quarter million trees over a span of three years.

Supporters say proposal would put landscape protection ‘on equal footing’ with grazing and drilling.

As the threatened grizzly bear population grows, interactions with ranchers and cattle have prompted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to sign off on up to 72 bear kills over the next decade.

Conservationists and government accountability advocates pushed back on attacks of a proposed Bureau of Land Management rule that would clarify the BLM’s authority and duty to restore and conserve public lands as mandated under an existing law.

Limiting the government’s authority to regulate wetlands under the Clean Water Act, the Supreme Court ended a nearly two-decade-old dispute Thursday.