by Wendy Weaver | Feb 7, 2019 | News Release
Prickly Pear Land Trust has formally protected the Sevenmile Creek Restoration Project as part of their “Peaks to Creeks” Initiative. Lewis and Clark County residents, PPLT staff, and elected officials deserve a big round of applause for their efforts,...
by Wendy Weaver | Aug 24, 2018 | News Release
More and more wetlands and streams are being impacted as development pressure increases. Even though there is a policy of “not net loss of wetlands,” mitigation work is not being done locally. The Gallatin Valley is losing our wetlands of great ecological...
by Wendy Weaver | Jun 10, 2018 | News Release
The floods we are seeing statewide are natural events that erode channel banks, entrain trees that stack up in logjams, and create new side channels, gravel bars and sand deposits on the floodplain as they have for millennia. While flooding damages homes and...
by Wendy Weaver | Aug 23, 2017 | News Release
State officials have found dead fish in the Yellowstone River for the first time this year and they are waiting on test results to find out whether the deaths are due to the same parasite that killed thousands of mountain whitefish in the stream a year ago. Montana...
by Wendy Weaver | Aug 20, 2017 | News Release
Snow fell this winter. A bunch of it, especially way up the Yellowstone River basin. The mountains were loaded when the snow began to melt. Anglers and river users were optimistic about this summer, and the optimism hasn’t disappeared. Even as July and August got hot,...
by Wendy Weaver | Aug 18, 2017 | News Release
JARDINE— A Canadian mining company inked deals with two conservation groups Thursday that are meant to preserve elk habitat and cold water for trout just north of Yellowstone National Park. Kinross Gold, a Toronto-based company, will donate its water rights to Trout...