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Southeast Montana
Photo courtesy of Rick and Susie Graetz
Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012
produced daily by Shellie Nelson
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Community
Colorado county releases draft of oil, gas regulations
On Monday, Boulder County posted draft regulations for oil and gas development in the Colorado county online and the county's Planning Commission has scheduled a public meeting on those proposed rules on Sept. 24.
Boulder Daily Camera;
Sept. 18
Idaho DEQ clarifies role in Ada County waste-to-fuel plant
After Ada County Commissioners Rick Yzaguirre and Sharon Ullman declined to support Commissioner Dave Case's request that the county conduct an independent review of Dynamis Energy's proposed $75-million, garbage-to-power project on a county landfill because Yzaguirre said the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality was already doing such a review, DEQ officials said the agency was responsible for air-quality issues only, not engineering or safety of the plant.
Idaho Statesman;
Sept. 18
Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Montana has a new owner
Health Care Service Corp., the nation's fourth-largest health insurance company, is buying Montana's dominant private health insurance company, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Montana.
Montana Standard;
Sept. 18
Tribes
U. of Utah to close Center for American Indian Languages
The departure of the founder of the Center for American Indian Languages at the University of Utah prompted the university to refocus the Center on indigenous languages of tribes within the state and put CAIL-related programs in the new Language Center of the American West Center.
Salt Lake Tribune;
Sept. 18
Crews get a handle on Montana wildfires
The 10,425-acre Millie Fire burning south of Bozeman is now 75 percent contained, the 4,325-acre Bean Fire near Toston is fully contained, and the Pine Creek Fire, also burning in that area of southwestern Montana, is about 50 percent contained but is burning in an area where crews can only monitor the activity.
Bozeman Daily Chronicle;
Sept. 18
State wildlife agency seeks tips on poaching of bull elk, bighorn ram in Montana
Less than a month after someone illegally killed a bighorn sheep ram near Townsend and left the carcass to rot, another poaching case has been reported in that area of Montana when a bull elk was shot and its head removed, and state wildlife officials are asking the public for information that would lead to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.
Helena Independent Record;
Sept. 18
Parties near agreement on rebuilding Burns Lake sawmill in B.C.
On Monday, Oregon-based Hampton Affiliates, British Columbia's minister of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation, and First Nations representatives held a news conference in Burns Lake to announce that they were nearly done hammering out a detail that would allow the rebuilding of the sawmill that exploded last January, killing two workers, injuring 19 and eliminating 250 jobs.
Toronto Globe and Mail;
Sept. 18
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"O ur research shows that reducing fuels isn't going to reduce severity much. Even if you reduce fuels, you are still going to have severe fires [due to extreme weather.]"
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