The Clark Fork River and its tributaries drain most of western Montana. The upper river and headwaters were heavily impacted by wastes from over a century of mining. Today, the area is the largest Superfund environmental clean-up site in the nation.
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Clark Fork Info > News > Archive > December 2008
December 29th, 2008:
Montana Standard: Logging fight is over
Montana Standard: Justice Department reconsidering bull trout stance
Montana Standard: County seeking share of major stimulus bill
Missoulian: More cleanup of Bozeman asbestos proposed
Missoulian: State to purchase 415 Milltown acres
Missoulian: Grant funds move land, water projects forward
Missoulian: State OKs land purchase northeast of Malta
Missoulian: Glacier's classroom ready for students
Missoulian: Seidensticker's life truly for the birds
Missoulian: FWP gauges results of extended elk hunting season
Missoulian: Biologists undertake frigid egg hunt to battle invasive trout
Missoulian: White House reconsiders decision on bull trout
December 23rd, 2008:
Montana Standard: Council recommends funding Butte restoration projects
Montana Standard: Milltown sediment might stay put
Montana Standard: Council OKs money for trail, fish projects
Montana Standard: EPA: 7 Western states fall below new air standards
Montana Standard: Stream access bills to come before Legislature
Montana Standard: Snowpack in area is below average
Missoulian: Some tainted Milltown Reservoir sediment may now stay in Milltown
Missoulian: Native stories, our stories: Sleuthing Salish names gives sense to place, culture
Missoulian: Molloy to hear suit over BLM, greenhouse gases
Missoulian: Two Montana species make group's most-threatened list
Missoulian: >Gallatin and Custer national forests will combine management in 2009 to save money
Missoulian: Blackfoot River: Pipeline drilling pushes through
December 19th, 2008:
Missoulian: Lawsuit against Stimson Lumber Co. seeks removal of berm
Missoulian: Room to run - County works out conservation easement for 177 acres
Missoula Indpendent: Saving Grace - Four years after U.S. attorneys first filed charges against W.R. Grace executives, the criminal trial finally begins this February in Missoula
December 15th, 2008:
Montana Standard: River projects before NRDP this week
Missoulian: Group files suit against tribes' deal on Bison Range
Missoulian: Conservationists, biologists helping Big Lost fishery
Missoulian: Wildlife Media Center to mark remodeled facade
Missoulian: Forest use mostly drops, but up in Bitterroot, surveys find
Missoulian: Attorney: Avista may still manage Cabinet Gorge land
Missoulian: Making connections for Indian education
Newwest.net: Pat Williams on Wilderness and the Beaverhead-Deerlodge Partnership
EPA Milltown Dam Site Update (pdf)
Butte Event: "Arsenic is Good for You!" - A short play about arsenic levels in Butte and Anaconda (click for full pdf poster)
Dec. Public Notices from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks: Hay Creek Land Acquisition Amended Draft Environmental Assessment (Flathead River); Foy's Bend Land Acquisition Amended Draft EA (Flathead River); et al.
Dec. Headlines from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks: Public Must Wait to Recreate on the Mitchell Slough (Bitterroot River), et al.
Montana Dept. of Natural Resources & Conservation News: State trust lands deliver $70 million to public schools; DNRC director: State agencies moving on plans to aid wood products industry; DNRC loan will fund water district project (Missoula)
December 5th, 2008:
Montana Standard: State completes portion of cleanup
Montana Standard: NRD hiring in Butte
Missoulian: Agency, Great Falls refinery settle environmental cases
Missoulian: BLM is ready for new federal Powder River resource plan
Missoulian: State Supreme Court voids Rock Creek Mine's water discharge permit
Missoula Independent: Still howling wolf - Will Westerners finally learn how to live with Canis lupus?
December 1st, 2008:
Montana Standard: Some called back to Stillwater mine
Montana Standard: Philipsburg to Discovery road still on hold
Montana Standard: Bridge access question still festers in 2009 Legislature
Montana Standard: Manganese project gets OK
Montana Standard: Feds enter next phase of wolf delisting push
Missoulian: Nocturnal calling - Owl expert built a world-class institute on his fascination with bird of prey (video link included in article)
Missoulian: DEQ pauses power plant construction
Missoulian: At 35, MEIC studying its work, name
Missoulian: Highwood plant faces protest
Missoulian: Investigators of mine pollution await test results
Missoulian: Glacier Park seeks wilderness designation
Missoulian: Canada: Mine planned atop habitat for bull trout
Missoulian: Nominations sought for reservoir planning group