Stone-Manning is qualified to lead BLM in every way. Confirm her, don t caricature her.
Tracy worked for both of us. The incendiary language some senators are using totally distorts who she is and her record of collaborative leadership.
Steve Bullock and Collin O Mara
Opinion contributors
Our public lands are one of our nation’s greatest assets and greatest equalizers, and that is particularly true of the acres stewarded by the nation’s largest public lands agency, the Bureau of Land Management. BLM lands help provide livelihoods for loggers, ranchers, workers in the energy sector and for thousands of small businesses that support the burgeoning outdoor recreation industry. They also provide essential habitat for wildlife, sporting opportunities for hunters and anglers, and adventure for hikers, bikers and backpackers. They are home to thousands of sacred sites.
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MILLTOWNÂ â Why did the turtle climb the hill?
The answer apparently eludes many well-intentioned people who keep picking up western painted turtles and putting them back in ponds or rivers.
What they donât realize, according to University of Montana wildlife biology assistant professor Erim Gomez, is that the move actually sets back turtle survival.
Gomez and his students had been combing Milltown State Park researching frog and salamander reproduction when they came across a fresh nest of turtle eggs on a little hilltop. Soon afterward, they met another park visitor who said theyâd just ârescuedâ a turtle that couldnât find the water.
Conservation groups: Bull trout plan must include population numbers
USFWS
and last updated 2021-06-15 19:31:43-04
MISSOULA â Conservation groups want a new bull trout management plan to ensure that biologists measure the size of a threatened speciesâ population before deciding to take it off the Endangered Species list.
On Monday afternoon, federal Magistrate Judge Kathleen DeSoto heard arguments on whether the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated portions of the Endangered Species Act in its 2015 Bull Trout Recovery Plan.
The plaintiffs â Save the Bull Trout, Save the Wild Swan and Alliance for the Wild Rockies â argued that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife outlined methods to try to protect the bull trout but didnât give clear direction on how biologists would decide the populations had recovered enough to delist the species.
DUNCAN ADAMS
For some, the ponds network provides a birdersâ paradise. For others, the ponds and headwaters of the Clark Fork River offer an anglersâ dream. For still others, itâs a sprawling mess of contaminated sediments that could flood downstream with potentially disastrous results.
Of course, many motorists speed by the Warm Springs Ponds on Interstate 90 and give the settling ponds nary a passing thought.
What do residents and non-residents think about the ponds and their future? Agencies, organizations and the property owner want to know.
They hope people will complete a brief online survey to share thoughts and observations.