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1 month ago | 
ravallirepublic.com | Joshua Murdock |Joshua Murdock
Localized flooding is possible from Saturday afternoon through Monday as rain and unseasonably warm temperatures drench and melt western Montana's snowpack this weekend. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch from Saturday afternoon through Monday afternoon for much of western Montana, including Ravalli, Missoula, Granite, Mineral, Lake, Sanders, Flathead and Lincoln counties.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
billingsgazette.com | Joshua Murdock
Montana's first real cold snap of winter is forecast to plunge the holiday weekend into frigid temperatures. But this stint of arctic chill won't be as cold or as prolonged as other cold spells the past couple winters. The coldest temps — overnight lows that usually bottom out just before dawn — were predicted to be anywhere from just above zero degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday to double-digits below zero Monday morning across Eastern Montana.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
helenair.com | Joshua Murdock
Chronic wasting disease, an incurable and always-fatal neurological disease found in large game like deer, elk and moose, has been found on the Flathead Reservation north of Missoula for the first time. Please subscribe to continue reading… Joshua Murdock covers the outdoors and natural resources for the Missoulian. He previously served as editor-in-chief of The Boulder Monitor in Jefferson County, Montana, and has worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer in rural towns in Idaho and Utah.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
goodrx.com | Joshua Murdock
There are several weight-loss medications on the market, but which one will be the best fit for you? Compare popular weight-loss pills and see common FAQs
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
helenair.com | Joshua Murdock
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
helenair.com | Joshua Murdock
One week after a series of back-to-back waves of precipitation brought significant snowfall to western Montana's mountains, many areas have switched from having less snow than normal to having about average or more snow than normal for late December. According to data compiled and published online by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Bitterroot River basin held 91% of its historical normal snow-water equivalent — the amount of liquid water contained in the snowpack — as of Tuesday morning.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
helenair.com | Joshua Murdock
MTCX Skis, Bikes & Events, a Missoula-based organizer of cycling and Nordic ski races across western Montana, is launching a new bicycle race series in 2025 that incorporates both mountain bike races and gravel road races. One of the races, a six-hour mountain bike event at Marshall Mountain, is the revival of a previous ultra-endurance race held there years ago.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
billingsgazette.com | Joshua Murdock
Neptune Aviation, a Missoula-based aerial firefighting company that operates large air tankers nationwide, will upgrade its fleet of jets in the coming years to the Airbus A319, the company announced Tuesday. The 31-year-old company currently operates a fleet of nine BAe-146 aircraft, a four-jet narrow-body airliner converted to carry 3,000 gallons of aerial fire retardant.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
helenair.com | Joshua Murdock
In December 2022, Missoula-based grizzly bear biologist Mike Bader said the proposed Clark Fork Face Project — a mix of logging, timber and vegetation thinning, and prescribed burning in the Garnet Mountains east of Missoula — was "a fat target" for a lawsuit.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
helenair.com | Joshua Murdock
For backcountry skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers in the Bitterroot, Missoula and Seeley areas, it’s a ritual as familiar as waxing skis or tuning a snowmobile when winter sets in: checking avalanche danger forecasts and other related reports from the West Central Montana Avalanche Center. This year, those potentially life-saving forecasts and bulletins like avalanche warnings almost certainly will not arrive on time the first week of December, despite early snowfall piling up.
