CFWEP | Clark Fork Watershed Education Program
CFWEP | Clark Fork Watershed Education Program
What is the Clark Fork Watershed?
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 > March 2010

March 29th, 2010:
Montana Standard: Seeing is believing
Montana Standard: Judge blocks mine beneath Cabinet Mtn. wilderness
Missoulian: Green and clean: Innovators hope to build plant in Montana to turn trees, shoes into fuel
Missoulian: Columbia Falls' Loren Kreck, longtime advocate for the Montana outdoors, dies
Missoulian: Grizzly bears move east from Rocky Mountain Front, prompt community meetings
Missoulian: Poplar project takes aim at waste, power
Missoulian: Missoula looks at North Hills, Marshall Canyon open space deals
Missoulian: Montana livestock board pays for 369 wolf kills in 2009
Missoulian: Groups vow to sue because sage grouse unprotected

March 26th, 2010:
EPA Site Update - Milltown - Mar. 24, 2010 (pdf)
Montana Standard: Montana backs off plan to restrict Blackfoot use
Montana Standard: Urban wildlife
Montana Standard: Suit challenges bison transfer to Turner
Missoulian: Signs of spring: Grizzlies emerge along Rocky Mountain Front
Missoulian: Downstream water users warned of cow carcasses in Yellowstone River
Missoulian: FWP Blackfoot plan release (pdf)
Missoulian: State approves plan to restore native trout in Smith River drainage
Missoulian: Panelists say final Blackfoot River management proposal 'gutted'
Missoulian: MARK WARD: Fishing is picking up on region’s lakes and rivers
Missoulian: Proposed open space land purchases (pdf)
Missoulian: FWP approves 3-year study of elk survival in Bitterroot's east, west forks
Missoulian: UM professor: Wolves to stay in Bitterroot, elk on menu
Missoulian: FWS extends bull trout critical habitat comment period
Missoulian: Gallatin forest plans to thin, burn in Bozeman watershed
Missoulian: Whitehall taxidermist found not guilty of illegally buying trophy bighorn
Missoula Independent: Agriculture The beet goes on
Missoula Independent: Bitterroot Stoking the fire
Missoula Independent: Winds of change Wyoming's turbine tax provides a positive model

March 22nd, 2010:
Montana Standard: Asarco cleanup to wrap this summer
Montana Standard: Elk injured last fall euthanized
Missoulian: Deadline is Monday to get involved in land stewardship program
Missoulian: Defense in trial for bighorn killing argues FWP game warden wasn't in danger

March 19th, 2010:
Montana Standard: Bears are opportunistic eaters after long winter nap
Montana Standard: Boulder trial: Had to shoot, warden says
Montana Standard: Montana OKs sale of coal tracts to mining giant, Arch
Montana Standard: Energy efficiency
Montana Standard: Highland site slated for cleanup
Missoulian: Land Board OKs resolution to protect North Fork of Flathead after controversey
Missoulian: Schweitzer: Otter Creek is precedent for North Fork protection agreement
Missoulian: Schweitzer North Fork letter to Salazar (pdf)
Missoulian: Arch Coal bids $86M on Otter Creek coal; Schweitzer says it may alter budget picture
Missoulian: 2nd phase of Montana Legacy Project puts 112K acres of forestland in public ownership
Missoulian: Pike story: Big fish in Bitterroot – but good luck hooking one
Missoulian: Schweitzer asks feds to cancel oil and gas leases near Glacier Park
Missoulian: Many modes of transport to be allowed at antler hunt
Missoulian: Fish and Game officials count 843 wolves in Idaho
Missoula Independent: Yellowstone bison numbers up slightly; northern elk herd holds steady
Missoula Independent: Environment  Is Schweitzer overstepping?
Missoula Independent: City Council  Judge quashes land grab

March 11th, 2010:
CFWEP Restoration & Education Newsletter: February 2010 (pdf)
Montana Standard: Montana EPA office has new director
Montana Standard: New park moves step closer
Montana Standard: Court overturns grazing ruling
Montana Standard: Wolf watching…
Montana Standard: Forest lawsuits high in region: Montana groups top in nation for fighting wildfire reduction projects
Montana Standard: Lake project gets OK
Montana Standard: Planning board OKs 1880s subdivision
Montana Standard: Wolf count grows
Montana Standard: Politics, poaching collide for Vogel
Missoulian: Signs of health: Clark Fork River begins to settle after Milltown Dam removal
Missoulian: Looking dry: March flurries won’t bring snowpack anywhere near normal
Missoulian: Acreage down, price up in Fish Creek state park plan
Missoulian: MARK WARD: Across state, weather all over the place
Missoulian: Plan will send some Bonner mill toxic waste to Missoula landfill, worst out of state
Missoulian: Montana FWP Commission OKs Fish Creek land purchase

Missoulian: GREG TOLLEFSON: License makes fishing legal, fish plentiful
Missoula Independent: Quarry quarrel DEQ prepared to step in on Chief Cliff land dispute
Missoula Independent: Wildlife Preserving Fish Creek
Missoula Independent: Stepping up Environmental groups brace for new wave of green bosses
Missoula Independent: Hunting Philippine flop
Missoula Independent: Life in full One man's step from scientist to world-changing activist
Missoula Independent: Pine beetles Shell serum shows promise

March 8th, 2010:
Press Release: Clark Fork Coalition and Montana Water Trust Join Together to
Build a Healthier Watershed

The Montana Conservationist Newsletter, February 5, 2010
Montana Standard: Feds worry storm drain pulling water from creek
Montana Standard: Commission wants wildlife-friendly fences, no docks, gravel road
Montana Standard: Prescribed burns planned for Butte, Fleecer areas
Missoulian: Bozeman raptor center treats four eagles for lead poisoning, two die
Missoulian: Agriculture secretary endorses Montana wilderness bill, logging mandate as 'pilot project'
Missoulian: Forest Service slowly embraces Tester plan to log 10,000 acres a year for 10 years
Missoulian: Too many wolves: FWP gives wildlife agents more authority to kill problem predators
Missoulian: Ag chief hears out Montana farmers and ranchers
Missoulian:
Seeing is believing: Photography project set out to showcase the Canadian Flathead and save the pristine valley from development

March 3rd, 2010:
Montana Standard: Open burning season begins
Montana Standard: Calendar
Montana Standard:
Open house tonight on fishing regs
Montana Standard: Decision postponed on lake subdivision
Montana Standard: Georgia men convicted of horse abuse jailed, fined
Missoulian: EPA proposes Superfund cleanup at Black Eagle smelter, refinery
Missoulian: Symposium on Clark Fork Basin conservation efforts to be held at UM
Missoulian: FWP says 40 bighorns successfully transplanted from Flathead's Wildhorse Island
Missoulian: Spring restrictions affect stock, dogs, motorized boats on Flathead Reservation
Missoulian: Bitterroot forest walks fine line between ponderosa health, campground aesthetics
Missoulian: State defends price of Otter Creek coal leases
Missoulian: To save a princess: Group concerned quarry could endanger Chief Cliff
Missoulian: Wolf Point man, 10 out-of-state hunters sentenced for poaching
Missoulian: Bighorn sheep die-offs hit herds all across West this winter

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