by Ashton Bunce | Dec 26, 2024 | News Release
Livingston-based nonprofit Montana Freshwater Partners was awarded nearly $300,000 from the Bureau of Reclamation this month to help enhance wetland and stream health in Park County. The $299,533 grant, to be distributed over three years, will go toward the Park Co....
by Ashton Bunce | Jun 5, 2024 | News Release
Montana Freshwater Partners (MFP) works to restore and preserve healthy rivers, streams, and wetlands by applying science-based practices to complex problems impacting water resources and communities throughout Montana. Considering that 80 percent of all life is...
by Ashton Bunce | Jun 5, 2024 | News Release
The machines are hard at work, kicking up clouds of dust on the dried gravel and sediment as they play pick-up-sticks. They’re compacting the earth, hauling out literal tons of logs and other wood on the banks of the Yellowstone River, swept to the shore by the...
by Ashton Bunce | Jun 5, 2024 | News Release
REED POINT, Mont. (AP) — Two months after a railroad bridge collapse sent carloads of hazardous oil products plunging into Montana’s Yellowstone River, the cleanup workers are gone and a mess remains. Thick mats of tarry petroleum asphalt cover portions of sandbars....
by Ashton Bunce | Jun 5, 2024 | News Release
On June 24, a train carrying molten asphalt derailed as a result of a bridge collapse plunging 10 loaded cars into the Yellowstone River near Columbus, Montana. As much as 500,000 pounds of liquid asphalt was spilled, contaminating the Yellowstone River for...
