environment

A new policy adopted by the Bureau of Land Management would open up 71 million acres of land to oil and gas drilling, as well as mining.

Randy Newberg writes, "Congress is considering a fast-track move that could open the headwaters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to a massive copper-sulfide mine by overturning a 20-year leasing moratorium."

The U.S. government currently defines about 60 critical minerals that are essential to economic or national security and that have supply chains vulnerable to disruption.

Climate Smart Missoula writes, "What is actually crazy is that the Trump administration moved to revoke the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 Endangerment Finding just a few days later."

Four wildlife groups are suing the Forest Service for eliminating regions where it should have to take Canada lynx into consideration when approving logging projects.

Another conservation group has filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s delay in determining critical habitat for wolverines, a federally listed threatened species.

Under a partial injunction, dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers must lower reservoir levels and increase fish spill.

When confronted by reporters from the Washington-D.C.-based publications, he balked at questions, saying that he wasn’t commenting on his own personal house.

Thomas Baumeister writes, "If a private landowner can graze cattle on public land without risking permit loss, why should a neighbor who grazes bison be punished for doing the same thing."

On the Clark Fork, the ambassadors will cover roughly 8.5 miles from Sha-Ron and Milltown down to Silver Park and points in between. On the Bitterroot, they'll work nine miles of river from Lolo north to Kona bridge.