A sweeping plan to use prescribed fire on hundreds of thousands of acres of the Caribou-Targhee National Forest has been halted well before any drip torches were dusted off.
The national forest in southeastern Idaho had proposed using controlled fire to regenerate up to 1.7 million acres of the landscape, one thatâs largely lacked natural wildfire, leading to thick understories, a dearth of aspen and decadent conifer stands.
But the Caribou-Targhee also sought to authorize that project using a âcategorical exclusionâ within the National Environmental Policy Act, which meant that analysis would have been minimal. Environmental advocacy groups and residents wrote in with concerns about the ambitious plans, and some of the issues they identified led to the projectâs demise.
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Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte trapped and killed an adult black wolf, like the one pictured, near Yellowstone National Park on February 15. The wolf, 1155, was born and radio-collared within the park.
Montana s newly-elected Republican governor violated state hunting regulations when he trapped and shot a collared wolf near Yellowstone National Park in February, according to documents obtained by the Mountain West News Bureau.
Gov. Greg Gianforte killed the adult black wolf known as 1155 roughly 10 miles north of the park s boundary in Park County. He trapped it on a private ranch owned by Robert E. Smith, director of the conservative Sinclair Broadcasting Group, who contributed thousands of dollars to Gianforte s 2017 congressional campaign.
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Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit Monday in federal District Court against the U.S. Forest Service to halt the Castle Mountains logging and burning project in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest.
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Natives Ecosystems Council said the project calls for cutting and burning trees on 22,500 acres and bulldozing 45.1 miles of logging roads.
Mike Garrity, executive director of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, said the forest service had ignored serious legal and environmental concerns.
He said the project violates Forest Plan protections for elk recommended in a document between Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and the Forest Service.
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SUBMITTED BY THE BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY – The Boca Beacon’s of the early 1980s included a column called “Syble Sez” based on local news of social events, business openings, family visitors, marriages, new babies and general gossip. Syble was Syble Futch who shared bar tending duties at The Temptation with Doris Wheeler where she was well situated to hear what was going on around town.
In her first column in the November 1, 1980 edition of the Beacon, Syble covers the grand opening party of the rebuilt Pink Elephant on October 18. She tells that “free drinks were flowing and hundreds of pounds of shrimp, smoked salmon and stone crab claws were served.” In the same article, she notes that Mike Mansfield, then ambassador to Japan but formerly a Montana Senator, had eaten twice at the new Pink (and many times previously at the original Pink Elephant) as the guest of Boca Grande winter resident, Mrs. Charles Englehard.