March 30th, 2009:
Montana Standard: Arts foundation bringing science exhibit to Butte
Montana Standard: Clark Fork finally runs completely free
Montana Standard: Senators: Montana communities to receive $15.5 million to create jobs
Montana Standard: Ruby Dam woes - Repairs needed, but project cut from budget
Montana Standard: Senate to vote on stream-access bill
Montana Standard: Loon listing
Montana Standard: Get kids outside, hiking
Missoulian: UM to add minor in climate change
Missoulian: Free-flowing for real: Demolition of gravel dam at Milltown marks historic step in watershed transformation (video link included in article)
Missoulian: Cloistered judges rule on wildlife films
Missoulian: Hybrid trout make it difficult to count westslope for ESA listing

March 25th, 2009:
Montana Standard: Environmental education group honors local field coordinator
Montana Standard: Columbus Superfund mostly cleaned up
Montana Standard: Students to ride train to learn about Superfund cleanup
Montana Standard: Beaverhead-Deerlodge Partnership: Legislators support joint effort
Montana Standard: Bridge access sponsor believes differences can be worked out
Montana Standard: Scientific evidence: Global warming drying Montana
Missoulian: Montana man to head U.S. conservation agency
Missoulian: Wetlands protection efforts get $1 million
Missoulian: City eyes Jumbo acreage
Montana Public Radio Commentary: Rally Round the Creek

March 19th, 2009:
Montana Standard: Milltown Dam river rerouting project advances
Montana Standard: Blackfoot River work reveals old, usable logs
Montana Standard: Council votes to support forest partnership
Montana Standard: Bill proposes stiff fines for off-roading on closed lands
Montana Standard: Man lands record-tying pygmy whitefish
Missoulian: It all falls down: Crews demolish final barrier of Milltown Dam in Clark Fork's original channel (video link included in article)
Missoulian: Flathead land trust gets $1M grant for wetlands projects
Missoulian: Badger-Two Medicine: Motors banned from area
Missoula Independent: The age of aquaculture
EPA Milltown Site Update (pdf)
Film Showing, Tues. March 24, 5:30-7pm: Director Rainer Komers will discuss his current project, Breathless!, about the Clark Fork River Superfund complex, and show some of his previous work. For full details, click here (pdf).
Upcoming Big Hole River Volunteer Opportunity, March 30-April 2: For full details, click here (pdf).
Watershed Central: A new online resource from EPA (www.epa.gov/watershedcentral) including the new Watershed Central Wiki. A webcast on the site will take place on April 15. Please visit www.epa.gov/watershedwebcasts to learn more about this Webcast; registration will open in early April. Also, at this URL you can find archives of 39 past Webcasts on a variety of watershed management topics.

March 16th, 2009:
Montana Standard: Groups say designated lynx habitat inadequate
Montana Standard: Yellowstone algae detoxifies arsenic
Montana Standard: Tech science fair winners listed
Montana Standard: Asarco offers $1.1B for cleanups
Montana Standard: Asarco seeks to settle environmental claims
Montana Standard: NW Montana wetlands project to get $6.6M
Montana Standard: Wildlife group donates documents to UM library
Montana Standard: Snowpack below average, but snow months remain
Missoulian: Milltown will be a ‘Superfun' site April 18
Missoulian: Milltown Dam's final vestiges coming down

March 11th, 2009:
Montana Standard: Jobs vs. environment
Montana Standard: Coal plants checked by enviro campaigns, costs
Montana Standard: Museum takes on assessment program
Montana Standard: Complete Science Fair results, awards listed here
Montana Standard: Babb pitches stimulus-spending ideas
Montana Standard: Mountain lion killed in Whitefish city limits
Montana Standard: Retired Forest Service brass press for wilderness legislation
Missoulian: Ice sheet falls off Noxon Dam, causes oil spill in Clark Fork River
Missoulian: Noxon oil spill downgraded
Missoulian: Looking to the future: EPA, state officials heading to Superior to discuss plan for cleanup of toxic mine tailings
Missoulian: Conservation groups saw ‘one shot' for deal with Plum Creek
Missoulian: Parks and Rec seeks input on managing open space
Missoulian: Ex-official hopes road amendment is revived from Plum Creek talks
Missoulian: Tales of misguided conclusions
EPA Milltown Site Update (pdf)
Environmental Research and Education Report Released: The National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) has released a new report, Environmental Research and Education Needs: An Agenda for a New Administration(pdf). The report organizes the recommendations relating to environmental and sustainability research and education policy from NCSE's first eight annual National Conferences on Science, Policy and the Environment (2000-2008).

March 2nd, 2009:
Montana Standard: Superior may be Superfund site
Montana Standard: Ideas plentiful for proposed fishing pond, recreation area
Montana Standard: Funding offered for trail grants
Montana Standard: USFS releases draft study of proposed mine
Montana Standard: Catching the wind
Missoulian: Wolves in the sights: Hunters complain predators are wiping out elk
Montana Public Radio Commentaries: Good Public Policy by Brianna Randall, Clark Fork Coalition
March Public Notices from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks
March Headlines from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks: Meeting to Discuss Mountain Lion Management and Quotas in Southwest; Hunter Education Classes Scheduled; Smith River Float Permits Out; Public Meeting on Big Spring Creek Restoration Project; et al.
March News from the Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality
Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality seeks public comment on Big Hole River Total Maximum Daily Load Documents
The Montana Conservationist (Montana Conservation Districts Newsletter) (pdf)

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