Biology graduate credits Berkley Pit Waterfowl Program for sparking birding passion nbcmontana.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nbcmontana.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Fisheries mavens for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks continued Tuesday to tag trout in Silver Bow Creek to try to understand why densities of trout have been declining. Students observed.
Gateway School awarded grant Gallatin Gateway school fifth-graders will become scientists working for a positive change in our local environments thanks to a $2,343 grant from the Clark Fork Watershed
Rechanneling the boom-and-bust history of Butte, Montana cbsnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cbsnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MICHAEL CAST
When storm water rushes down the Butte hill, toxic metals come with it. Filtering those metals out of surface water is one of the great challenges of the Superfund cleanup.
With a grant from the EPA, Montana Technological University student scientists are experimenting with a new solution to the problem: sustainable biochar wattles, or beds of charcoal made from organic waste.
They think they can catch the bad metals the old methods let slip through.
Doing what hasnât been done starts by looking where nobody has thought to look. In this case, the student scientists went straight to Butteâs Ranchland Packing Co. s meat-packing plant.