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Your help is needed for Clean Up day near Butte

June 7, 2011

Homestake/Delmoe Clean up As most of you are aware Butte is home to the Homestake/Pipestone trail network.  The access road loops from Homestake to Delmoe Lake and on to Pipestone.  This main road unfortunately sees a lot of full size vehicle traffic resulting in much litter.  Mining City Trail Riders has decided to clean up the barrow pits [...]

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DOI Drops Wild Lands for Now

June 6, 2011

Salazar Gives Up on Wild Land designation  Salazar Gives Up on Wild Lands In a nod to the Congressional opponents of Secretarial Order 3310, Interior Secretary Salazar announced on June 1st that the Bureau of Land Management would not be designating any federal lands as “Wild Lands.” The 2011 Continuing Resolution, (Public Law 112-10), contained [...]

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Wolf predations start again.

April 27, 2011

Previously unknown wolf pack kills Park County calf — Wildlife officials say a previously unknown pack of wolves is responsible for killing a calf in the Tom Miner Basin area of Park County. Yellowstone Cattle Co.’s Mike Hubbard said he found the carcass April 18, and officials with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks determined two [...]

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New Yellowstone River Plan

April 27, 2011

Army Corps issues new management plan for upper Yellowstone River The Army Corps of Engineers has released a long-awaited plan that provides a new way to manage the Upper Yellowstone River. The plan, called the Upper Yellowstone River Special Area Management Plan, directs the Corps to evaluate how a project may affect the entire watershed, [...]

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Bison damage private property

April 22, 2011

Wandering bison causing trouble in Gardiner Joe Sperano Sr. doesn’t blame the bison for the torn-down fencing or the irrigation pipes that have been bent in the past few weeks. “I’m not an anti-wildlife guy,” he said while standing in his driveway Wednesday. “I live in the wrong place for that.” What angers Sperano is that [...]

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Frontier Airlines position denies Multiple Use on Public lands

April 18, 2011

   Frontier Airlines Partners With The Wilderness Society http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110412006663/en/Frontier-Airlines-Partners-Wilderness-Society  April 12, 2011 12:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time  Commits to protect wilderness and connect people with wild places DENVER–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In further support of the communities in which it flies, Frontier Airlines is pleased to announce a partnership with The Wilderness Society, a leading public-lands conservation organization working [...]

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BLM Advisory seats positions open for nominations

April 18, 2011

NEWS                                                              Western MT BLM United States Department of Interior                                                                                                           Contact:  David Abrams Bureau of Land Management, Butte Field Office                                                                                     Phone:    (406) 533-7617 106 North Parkmont Butte, MT  59701 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOMINATION PERIOD OPEN FOR SEATS ON BLM ADVISORY COUNCIL             BUTTE (April 4, 2011) — The Bureau of Land Management in Montana [...]

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Alert: Forest Plan Rule public meetings scheduled

March 16, 2011

Forest Planning Rule meetings scheduled  Three meetings have been scheduled by the Forest service to present and answer questions regarding the release of the new proposed forest Planning Rule.These are important meetings to attend.   CBU is currently reviewing the  253 page DEIS and should have information available very soon on the affect this new [...]

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Forest Service Planning Rule Released

February 11, 2011

Citizens for Balanced Use Forest Service Planning Rule Released      The new Forest Service Planning Rule has just been released. I was going through it a bit and came across the following statement under 219.62   Decision memo. A concise written record of the responsible official’s decision to implement an action that is categorically [...]

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Cooke City Avalanche Workshop

February 7, 2011

Cooke City Avalanche Workshop Available Items Lecture Sat, Feb 12th,12:00p-4:30pm Field Day Sun, Feb 13th, 9am-3pm Location Cooke City Fire Hall The Friends of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center in cooperation with Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center will offer an Avalanche Awareness Workshop with lectures and a field session to be held in Cooke City, [...]

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