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UPDATE, AUG. 12:

Experts across the West have met to discuss the potential impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act as the one-year anniversary of the piece of legislation approaches. Michael Cravens, advocacy and conservation director for the Arizona Wildlife Federation, said the bill makes the largest investment in the nation's history to combat climate change, by incentivizing responsible clean-energy projects. In Arizona, he pointed out climate change has made lack of water the biggest concern, despite good rainfall this past winter and now during monsoon season. ...

When mandatory evacuations for Walking Horse Lane and Early Dawn Road and adjacent areas near Big Arm were announced last Thursday afternoon by the Lake County Sheriff’s Department, Vicki Holmberg, Polson Fairgrounds caretaker, was immediately on the phone with people seeking shelter for their animals and places to park their campers and RVs. When she wasn’t on the phone, she was showing people where to put their animals.

The headwaters of the Bitterroot River is a bad place for a rare-earth element mine, according to a local mine-contamination expert.

Accusations of mismanagement have been flying while dam operators point to the role of a rapid runoff of a modest snowpack.