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MAY 3, 2009
Montana has passed a law making it difficult to challenge the building of a horse slaughtering facility in that state. That's right, so anyone that that challenges the building of such a facility will have to have a bond at 20% of the value of said facility. The last such facility in the US closed in 2007.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2021
The short answer is that wilderness areas are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System and they are protected by the Wilderness Act of 1964. Simply put, wilderness areas are the most protected public lands in America. But what is “wilderness” and how does it differ from any other federal land? The longer answer is below.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
So right now I’m feeling pretty good about Eurasian Collared-doves. With a hardiness that belies their delicate looks (but helps explain their phenomenal success), these pioneering pigeons are already sitting on eggs at at least one location in Montana. Whatever they used to be, they are now a bird of Montana. In 1998 W.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. Corps of Engineers to protect Galveston Bay at the end of the 19th-century. I imagined walking right up to them.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 1, 2013
As such, I am delighted to see them receive protection. A week ago today, the federal government proposed a “threatened” listing for the Greater Sage Grouse in Nevada and California , as part of a larger study considering whether the species as a whole should be listed. Naturally, not everyone is equally delighted.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2013
Highway 12, as it takes you from Montana into Idaho, has been the road to some of my greatest adventures during my time here. Today, the camas fields rest protected in the vast bosom of the Clearwater National Forest. They will meet you when you come — so long as you come during the right few weeks in June. That was then.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
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