Tag: Montana

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  Foreign Companies Eye Sacred Mountains in Montana and India for New Mines

  They're on opposite sides of the world, but two mountains sacred to the tribal communities that live near them are up against a similar threat: mining.

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  EPA Orders Oil Companies to Pay for Contamination of Montana Town's Water Supply

  More than 40 million gallons of brine have entered the drinking water aquifer over five decades. Now, the EPA is holding three oil companies at least partly responsible for the contamination.

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  How a Cattle Rancher Preserves the Prairies of Montana (Video)

  The environmental case for vegetarianism, or at least eating a lot less meat, is pretty compelling. From the inherent efficiency of eating plant-based foods directly, rather than processing them through animals, to the

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  Not Enough Elk Hunters Left To Kill Montana Wolves, As Desired By State Game Managers

  I did not stretch this headline, nor am I wagging a finger at Montana elk hunters (I'ld love to bag a Montana elk). However, a Montana State employee, speaking for The Missoulian

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  Ruptured Pipeline in Yellowstone River Oil Spill Regularly Carried Tar Sands Oil

  The EPA now says there is no more danger of further oil spilling from the ruptured pipeline under the Yellowstone River, but several big questions remain--especially considering that ExxonMobil now says that tar sands oil routinely was carried by the

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  Exxon's Lack Of Public Transparency Prompts Montana Leaving Oil Spill Clean Up Command

  Citing a disturbing (and unfortunately expected) lack of public transparency on the part of ExxonMobil in the aftermath of the Yellowstone River oil spill, Montana governor Brian Schweitzer has withdrawn state participation from the command team

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  Yellowstone River Oil Spill Spreads 240 Miles - If This Was Keystone XL It'd Be 20 Times Worse

  The Yellowstone River oil spill continues to spread (both physically and metaphorically) with more and more landowners reporting their property has been contaminated with oil from the ruptured ExxonMobil Silvertip pipeline and questions raised about

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  Exceptional Snowmelt Flooding Yellowstone River, Hampers Oil Spill Cleanup & May Have Caused It

  Some media roundup updates on the ongoing Yellowstone River oil spill: 1) Higher than normal winter snow runoff means cleanup (and assessing the full scale of damage) will be slower than usual; 2)

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  Yellowstone River Oil Spill Now Extends 150 Miles Downstream

  You may have missed this: Over the long holiday weekend in the US an ExxonMobil oil pipeline in Montana ruptured, spilling as much as 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the Yellowstone River, 10

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  'Flying Deer' Knocks Out Montana Power Line (Maybe)

  On today's episode of "Amazing Animal Feats," a deer fawn that knocked out power in Montana. Her carcass was retrieved from a power line, up in the air. But how did she get up there? The amazing feat here may be how much a bald eagle can lift, rather

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  U.S. Congress Removes Wolves from Endangered Species List -- A Legislative First

  Image via Flickr/geishaboy500 digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/04/us-congress-removes-wolves-from-endangered-species-list----a-legislative-first.php'; Congress, for the first time ever, has removed an animal from the Endangered Species

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  Movin' To Montana Soon, Gonna Be A Grapefruit and Banana Tycoon

  Montana State Representative Joe Read thinks global warming is a good thing for Montana. He has even proposed legislation called "an Act Stating Montana's Position on Global Warming" that says: (a) global warming is beneficial to the welfare and

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  Colstrip, Montana and the Tragedy of an American Coal Plant (Book Review)

  In his book Colstrip, Montana (distributed by D.A.P.), photographer David T. Hanson tells the story of a town that would never have been founded if it weren't for the

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  Canadian Coal Mining Interest Holds Glacier Park Hostage For US Taxpayer Money

  A joint U.S.-Canada effort is underway to halt ongoing exploration for gold, coal, oil and gas in much of the upper Flathead River

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  Bye Bye Glaciers: 2 More Gone From Glacier National Park

  We all know warmer temperatures have led to shrinking

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  Oh, Give Me a Home: Bison Relocation Controversy

  "Bison Lane" photo by V Man via Flickr Eco-baron and media mogul Ted Turner has placed a bid to "borrow" 74 wild bison from Yellowstone National Park at the request of Montana's Governor Brian Schweitzer. But opposing forces to the plan claim the

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  The Local Movement Comes to Forestry

  In the food world there is the debate between "organic" and "local" and the idea of looking your farmer in the eye. It appears that much the same thing is happening in wood- there is certified FSC lumber, and there is local, sustainably harvested

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  Be Chief of Your Own Lookout Post

  (Images via dornob and Tiny House Blog) If solitude, stair climbing, small spaces, and big panoramic views are your thing, you might feel right at home in a repurposed fire lookout tower. The hawk-eyed gang at dornob has wrangled together some beautiful