Paradise Valley, Montana. Photo by George Wuerthner
Paradise Valley, Montana, is aptly named. The Yellowstone River flows north to Livingston, Montana, framed by the Absaroka Mountains on the east and the Gallatin Range on the West. It’s one of the most stunning landscapes in the entire West.
Due to its location […]
Continue Reading →A recent article about the low flow on the Yellowstone River (Oct.6h) missed an opportunity to inform Montana citizens about water in Montana. http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/low-flows-high-temps-the-new-normal-on-yellowstone/article_85a816c3-3b81-50e1-9734-d9e733662f80.html#utm_source=bozemandailychronicle.com&utm_campaign=morning-headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline
What is not well-known is that water in Montana (as in the rest the West) is public property owned by the state’s citizens. Like the air, water is considered a […]
Continue Reading →The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department just closed the Yellowstone River to all water borne recreation in response to a growing epidemic that has killed thousands of fish. The culprit is Proliferative Kidney Disease which can cause up to 100 percent mortality.
The disease is exacerbated by low water flows and high temperatures.
Governor […]
Continue Reading →Second rupture under Yellowstone River in four years makes Keystone look more ominous-
There has been a massive rupture of the Poplar oil pipeline under the Yellowstone River near Glendive, Montana. This is about a hundred miles upstream from the North Dakota border and the Yellowstone’s confluence with the Missouri River.
The pipeline lay buried […]
Continue Reading →If the story as told in today’s Billings Gazette is accurate, it is amazing what a little fear of wolves will cause a person to do.
A single bark from a wolf is a sound that means it is surprised — startled. As expert wolf trapper and handler Carter Niemeyer tells it (Niemeyer has crawled […]
Continue Reading →How bad is this going to get?
Exxon: Ruptured pipeline carried tar sands crude.
Laura Zuckerman – Reuters
ExxonMobil pipeline under the Yellowstone River releases 30,000 – 50,000 gallons of crude into world famous river-
It’s another one of those things they claimed was too unlikely to worry about. Now there is a large oil slick drifting down the Yellowstone River toward the Missouri, ruining riverside property, and polluting not just the river […]
Continue Reading →Rescue workers search for body after 308 foot plunge-
Man goes over Falls. Jackson Hole Daily. By Cory Hatch
Continue Reading →This is part of a much larger water resource bill Bush vetoed. He said was too expensive. Congress overroad his veto.
This is from the Greater Yellowstone e-news.
“Congress authorizes $30 million to protect Yellowstone River – It’s been over a decade since the historic floods of 1996-97 spurred an unprecedented wave of environmentally-destructive bank […]
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