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Sharp-tailed grouse are the only bird species documented by Lewis and Clark that have disappeared from western Montana. A new reintroduction effort aims to rectify that.
RDEK board supports sustained levels in Koocanusa
Investigation urged into Canadian mining waste in Montana The renewed urgency comes as Canadaâs largest diversified mining company lays plans to expand its footprint by building new mines along the border without a tested strategy in place to treat the chemical-laden flows Author: Tristan Scott Associated Press Even with the U.S.-Canada border restricting travel for at least another month, the international exchange of mining waste leaching from British Columbia into a transboundary watershed touching Montana and Idaho has continued unmitigated, intensifying concerns to such a degree tha...
ROB CHANEY As Teck Resources hopes to expand its mountaintop-removal coal mining in British Columbia, water quality monitors in Canada and the United States warn the companyâs existing mines already cause significant ecological damage. In 2019, the companyâs own research revealed that more than 90% of the cutthroat trout population had vanished in a 60-kilometer (37-mile) reach of the Upper Fording River near its mines around Sparwood, British Columbia. On March 26, Teck pleaded guilty to two counts of illegally discharging selenium and other pollutants into the watershe...
ROB CHANEY The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency adopted a new standard for selenium waste in Montanaâs Kootenai River and Koocanusa Reservoir on Thursday, after the Legislature dropped plans to revoke the state rule. âEPAâs action is based on a thorough technical review of the Stateâs submission and a determination that the adopted standards are based on sound science and consistent with the Clean Water Act,â EPA spokeswoman Laura Flynn Jenkins wrote in an emailed statement. âMontanaâs revised standards will strengthen ongoing efforts to a...