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3 weeks ago | 
missoulian.com | Jess Abell
Snow is expected to return Saturday night through Sunday according to a statement released by the National Weather Service Friday afternoon. A spring storm system is likely to develop in Idaho County and portions of west-central and southwest Montana on Sunday. Accumulating snow is likely for terrain above 5,000 feet in these areas, including higher elevation mountain passes, according to the National Weather Service.
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4 weeks ago | 
missoulian.com | Jess Abell
Twenty-six wild horses found new homes during the Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro adoption event in Hamilton May 2-4. Of the 26 horses placed into new homes, 19 were adults and seven yearlings. With a 72% placement rate into private care, “the event demonstrated the public’s continued interest in adopting and caring for America’s iconic wild horses,” according to a BLM statement released Thursday.
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1 month ago | 
missoulian.com | Jess Abell
Fire season is off to an early start in the Bitterroot Valley this year after a wildfire was identified in the Big Creek area 9.5 miles west of Stevensville on Wednesday, May 7 by the Bitterroot National Forest (BNF). Fire managers conducted a reconnaissance flight on Thursday morning. An initial report identified the fire at 1 acre but after aerial reconnaissance and ground confirmation the fire is now estimated at 75 acres according to BNF.
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1 month ago | 
missoulian.com | Jess Abell
Researchers in the Bitterroot Valley have seen significant mortality in bighorn sheep over the winter, with all collared rams in the Skalkaho herd reported to have died. The news comes just weeks after a bighorn sheep die-off in northeastern Montana prompted a hunting closure in Hunting District 622, north of Fort Peck Reservoir.
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2 months ago | 
missoulian.com | Jess Abell
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2 months ago | 
missoulian.com | Jess Abell
Two dozen Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) employees lost their jobs on Tuesday, April 1 as part of the most recent round of federal layoffs impacting employees at the National Institutes of Health. The National Institutes of Health is expected to layoff about 1,200 people nationwide as part of an effort announced Tuesday to reduce the Department of Health and Human Services by thousands of workers.
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2 months ago | 
billingsgazette.com | Jess Abell |Jessica Abell
Research conducted at the Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton has identified several mosquito-borne illnesses that can cause encephalitis circulating in Montana with infection rates in humans as high as between 21% and 40%. The findings are detailed in a report recently published in Emerging Infectious Diseases. “Several viruses that can cause encephalitis (brain swelling) and are unfamiliar to most physicians are circulating in Montana mosquitoes…” a statement released by RML officials reads.
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2 months ago | 
mtstandard.com | Jess Abell |Jessica Abell
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