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Next weather maker arrives Thursday night and last updated 2021-04-21 15:33:35-04 BOZEMAN – There are two cold fronts to impact the weather over the region in the next 5 to 7 days. The first cold front is dropping down through Alberta and will hit the hi-line of Montana Thursday afternoon and quickly reach the southern half of the state by early Friday morning. This system will produce rain and snow along with a brief shot of cooler air and gusty winds. Snow accumulations should be light by Friday morning with 1”-3” for most valleys along and North of I-90. Valley snow accumula...

MICHAEL CAST The upper Clark Fork River cleanup enters a new phase this spring with remediation of a section between Warm Springs and Galen known as Phase 3. As the Montana Department of Environmental Quality and Montana National Resource Damage Program prepare to start construction mid-May, Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks biologists are dealing with a question central to the economic value and health of the river — why has the brown trout population reached all-time lows in the last several years? There is widespread concern that loss of sheltered banks from remediation is a f...

See-saw Weather Makes Montana Streamflow Experts Nervous The rivers of Montana depend on the winter's snowpack to keep a good streamflow through the summer and fall. Each month, the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Bozeman tries to determine if the water will be available through the year for recreation and for agricultural irrigation. And this year has been difficult. The February snowpack report was low and below average. However, four weeks later, at the beginning of March. snowpack had rebounded dramatically for a huge gain in the snow levels, especially in the higher elevations....

See-saw Weather Makes Montana Streamflow Experts Nervous The rivers of Montana depend on the winter's snowpack to keep a good streamflow through the summer and fall. Each month, the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Bozeman tries to determine if the water will be available through the year for recreation and for agricultural irrigation. And this year has been difficult. The February snowpack report was low and below average. However, four weeks later, at the beginning of March. snowpack had rebounded dramatically for a huge gain in the snow levels, especially in the higher elevations....

Next time there is a light accumulation of powder, whip out the card table and get to work.