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A Flathead Lake watchdog group and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are suing the state of Montana for approving a new sewage treatment plant that they say could add nutrient pollution to Flathead Lake.

Forecasts following an unseasonably warm, dry May, indicate the largest freshwater lake in the West will be 1.5 feet below normal by mid-July

It was the end of the inaugural year of classes at the University of Montana. The students were about to take their first summer break from college, and one of their professors had some advice.

The SUBSEA research team will receive $9.5 million over the next five years to help refine details of ocean carbon cycling and ecosystem resilience.

At the request of a Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes company, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to keep more water in Flathead Lake this year.

Pesticides pollute lakes and streams across the nation, but no one knows how much pesticides affect Montana’s rivers. With the help of a federal grant, researchers intend to find out.

Dr. Rachel Malison, an assistant professor with UM’s Flathead Lake Biological Station, will use the funding to develop and implement a comprehensive and collaborative Pesticide Stewardship Partnership Program for Montana’s Upper Columbia River Basin.

Minimum levels would be kept up by releases from Hungry Horse Reservoir, and maximum levels would be ensured by releases out of Flathead Lake at the Seli’š Ksanka Qlispe’ Dam.

Lee Weber Koch writes, "Flathead Lake is one of the most beautiful places on earth; however, this summer’s low lake levels severely impacted residents, irrigators, fishermen, recreators, marinas, land and dock owners, and many other businesses directly or indirectly."

If you should happen to ride your horse into a Kalispell saloon and are arrested for disturbing the peace, we have a perfect defense prepared for you, courtesy of Colonel A.A. White of St. Paul, Minn., who used this very strategy in court in 1917.