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1 week ago |
billingsgazette.com | Brett French
With a goal to compensate the public following the spilling of 419,000 pounds of asphalt petroleum liquid into the Yellowstone River in 2023, state officials are considering several ways of measuring public impacts. A survey to establish how the recreationists' experiences were affected by the spill is one means of assessment, according to Katherine Hausrath, chief legal counsel for the Montana Natural Resource Damage Program (NRDP).
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1 week ago |
billingsgazette.com | Brett French
A Garfield County landowner has closed off an access point to a 20,250-acre Wilderness Study Area after placing a gate across a road that provides entry to the rugged badlands terrain south of Fort Peck Reservoir. The Seven Blackfoot Wilderness Study Area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management and includes a section of state land, which adds another 640 acres to the WSA.
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1 week ago |
billingsgazette.com | Brett French
To prevent Armstrong Creek from flooding cabins along the north shore of East Rosebud Lake, an engineering firm is proposing a 12-foot wide berm separating the creek from an overflow channel and two concrete weirs stretching 55 and 58 feet to divert the water. The details are included in a flurry of last-minute filings from attorneys representing the Stillwater Conservation District in its legal fight with neighboring Carbon Conservation District.
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2 weeks ago |
billingsgazette.com | Brett French
Now under new leadership and with many of its past department chiefs purged, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is working to improve the agency‚Äôs culture following a legislative audit that highlighted ‚Äúlow morale and other workplace culture issues.‚ÄĚ The report specifically analyzed FWP‚Äôs human resource practices from 2019 to 2023, finding that the agency was good about compliance regarding discipline activities but half of the 60 randomly selected hirings chosen for analysis did not...
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2 weeks ago |
billingsgazette.com | Brett French
RED LODGE – Brandon Lee Head Carrier, a 25-year-old Edgar man, was sentenced to 40 years in state prison on Wednesday, June 11, on a charge of mitigated deliberate homicide in the death of his 6-week-old son. Carbon County District Court Judge Matthew Wald rejected the defense attorney’s request for a 20-year sentence, saying the circumstances warranted a stiffer penalty despite Head Carrier’s history of mental health issues and that as a youth he was placed in 32 different foster homes.
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