Trucks have removed more than 1,400 tons of contaminated soil following a large oil spill on the Fort Peck Reservation in Montana, The Billings Gazette reported. Cleanup is still ongoing. So far, more than 50 large dump trucks full of soil have been removed with more to come, the publication noted. An estimated 600 barrels […]
Under continued pressure from Montana livestock interests, Yellowstone National Park is sending hundreds of America’s last wild buffalo—the National Mammal of the U.S.—to slaughter. Since Feb. 8, approximately 45 wild Yellowstone buffalo have been shipped from the park’s Stephens Creek buffalo trap to a slaughterhouse. With recent captures of at least 600 buffalo, more than […]
As many as 10,000 snow geese landed on the remains of an open pit mine near Butte, Montana that was filled with toxic water. Now, they are being found sick and dead in places as unwild as a Walmart parking lot and a nearby casino. The Berkeley Pit, an abandoned open pit copper mine in […]
National Conservation Easement Database The U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities announced the release of the National Conservation Easement Database, the first resource to offer detailed information on the nearly 18 million acres now protected by more than 80,000 easements across the U.S. Until its development, land and natural resource practitioners and decision-makers lacked a […]
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