Saturday, February 11, 2012
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Yellowstone National Park administrators plan to capture and ship to slaughter potentially hundreds of wild bison if they migrate into Montana this winter in a bid to reduce disease and control the population of the animals. The captures could begin as soon as mid- ...
Saturday, February 04, 2012 2:27 PM
KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) -- Wildlife officials in Montana added a third day in their effort to capture bighorn sheep from Wild Horse Island in Flathead Lake. Officials through Friday had captured 29 bighorns as part of their plan to transplant 50 to the Tendoy mountains, about 40 miles south of Di ...
Saturday, February 04, 2012 2:27 PM
JAMESTOWN, N.D. (AP) -- The nonprofit Farm Rescue organization is accepting requests for spring planting help from farmers in the Dakotas, Minnesota and eastern Montana. The North Dakota-based operation provides planting and harvesting aid to farm families who have gone through a major i ...
Friday, February 03, 2012 8:37 AM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A Hutterite colony near Cut Bank has been ordered to pay $90,274 after two horses belonging to neighboring ranchers died of strychnine poisoning. The Seville Colony and farm boss Thomas Wipf pleaded guilty in October to misapplication of pesticides after the horses ate str ...
Monday, January 30, 2012 3:40 PM
ST. MICHAEL, Minn. (AP) -- A Minnesota wholesaler is recalling more than a ton of beef sirloin products because the labels fail to indicate that one ingredient is milk, a possible allergen. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says J&B Group Inc. of St. Michael is recalling about 2,645 pounds ...
Saturday, January 28, 2012 2:18 PM
on Monday. The lawsuits are similar to one filed by Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Hill and other investors against a different set of financial advisers over investments through DBSI, of Boise, Idaho. One of the lawsuits against AZ was filed by Billie Redding of Lewis and Clark ...
Monday, January 23, 2012 9:32 AM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The state Board of Livestock is opting to wait until at least March before deciding whether to scrap a rule requiring milk be sold within 12 days of being pasteurized. Lee Newspapers of Montana reports the board made the decision on Wednesday. A 21-day sell-by date is ...
Sunday, January 22, 2012 5:11 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Max Baucus says a global wind energy company headquartered in China plans to build a 20-megawatt wind farm in central Montana. Baucus says that the wind farm is for proposed for a site near Shawmut, a small community about 75 miles northwest of Billings ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:48 AM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A winter storm dumped a foot of snow on Helena and Missoula and nearly a foot the Billings area, where at least three vehicles collided with snowplows trying to clear the roads. Schools in western Montana pushed back the start of classes by two hours on Thursday mor ...
Thursday, January 19, 2012 8:48 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana officials are proposing another extension of the state's gray wolf hunt as harvest numbers continue to lag original expectations. Hunting in a portion of the Bitterroot Valley along the Idaho border would be allowed through April 1 or until hunters meet the area' ...
Monday, January 16, 2012 7:43 AM
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) -- Hunters in Butte want more wolves, black bears and mountain lions killed to increase deer, elk and moose numbers. Hunters told Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologists last week that more predator control is needed so more game species are available for hun ...
Monday, January 16, 2012 7:43 AM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Thursday that snowpack in the Missouri River Basin headwaters is below normal so far this winter, and far below levels seen last year when heavy snowfall in the mountains was a big factor in floods downstream. So far, snowpack in th ...
Friday, January 13, 2012 10:12 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Opponents of a plan to relocate 68 wild bison to two American Indian Reservations in Montana have filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the transfer of the animals. Wednesday's lawsuit was filed in state District Court in Blaine County by a coalition of property owners, ranche ...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 5:14 PM
LIVINGSTON, Mont. (AP) -- Wildlife officials are monitoring bighorn sheep from a southern Park County herd that was hit by pneumonia to gauge the risk of a large-scale die-off of the animals. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist Karen Loveless told the Livingston Enterprise that five shee ...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012 7:45 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Wolf hunting restrictions in portions of Montana bordering Yellowstone National Park are successfully protecting the park's animals from a repeat of a previous hunt when four members of a well-known pack were killed, federal and state officials said Wednesday. Yellowst ...
Wednesday, January 04, 2012 3:06 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Repairs to the Huntley Irrigation Project in southeastern Montana should be completed by early January after last year's disastrous flooding caused about $2.4 million in damages, officials said. Mild weather at the end of the year helped efforts to return Pryor Creek to ...
Monday, January 02, 2012 12:34 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The return of gray wolves has dramatically altered the landscape in portions of Yellowstone National Park, as new trees take root in areas where the predators have curbed the size of foraging elk herds, according to scientists in a new study. Stands of aspen, willow an ...
Monday, January 02, 2012 7:43 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer says he will allow some trout eggs to be shipped from a federal hatchery after blocking out-of-state shipments last week in a wildlife management dispute with the Interior Department. Schweitzer said Wednesday two shipments totaling 14 ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:42 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana officials are holding up shipments of tens of thousands of trout eggs from a federal fish hatchery to other states, as Gov. Brian Schweitzer seeks to pressure the Interior Department into changing the way it manages another species -- bison. Federal and ...
Thursday, December 22, 2011 1:31 PM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- A sprawling ranch that spans three counties and includes more than 20 miles of the Sun River west of Great Falls is on the market for $132 million. The 123,000-acre Broken O Ranch near Augusta was assembled during the last two decades by William and Desiree Moore, f ...
Thursday, December 22, 2011 9:10 AM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did what it could with the record flooding on the Missouri River this year although proposed changes could help avoid a disastrous repeat, especially since such floods could become more frequent, an expert panel said in a report released T ...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011 2:19 PM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Members of an influential Montana livestock group say they are not ready to allow wild bison to roam freely outside Yellowstone National Park until more is done to control a disease carried by the animals. The Montana Stockgrowers Association rejected calls to show ...
Friday, December 16, 2011 1:16 PM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Jon Tester's plan for more logging and wilderness areas in Montana is falling prey to partisan differences accentuated by his heated 2012 Senate race with U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg. Tester, a Democrat, has been trying to attach his Forest Jobs and Recreation ...
Friday, December 16, 2011 9:36 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- State wildlife officials say they plan to allow bison back into the Gardiner Basin north of Yellowstone National Park this winter. Hundreds of migrating bison were allowed into the basin last year for the first time in decades. But Montana officials said they woul ...
Friday, December 16, 2011 8:55 AM
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- The federal government is considering moving dozens of bison captured outside Yellowstone National Park to federal lands in South Dakota, Colorado and elsewhere, according to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. In a letter obtained by The Associated Press, Salazar told Mo ...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:14 AM
HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Montana officials on Friday approved the relocation of 68 quarantined bison from Yellowstone National Park to two Indian reservations amid intense debate over whether the animal that once populated the American West has a place on today's landscape. The Fish, Wildlif ...
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