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Southeast Montana
Photo courtesy of Rick and Susie Graetz
Friday, June 15, 2012
produced daily by Shellie Nelson
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More news from the Rockies
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Community
Idaho counties get $26 million in federal PILT funds
Elmore County in the southwest corner of Idaho received $2.2 million, the largest share of the $26 million of federal Payment in Lieu of Taxes funds from the federal government paid out to the 44 counties.
Idaho Statesman (AP);
June 15
Federal PILT fund to pay $36 million to Utah counties
All 29 of Utah's counties will receive some of the $36 million in federal Payment in Lieu of Taxes funds, with Tooele County getting the highest amount, $3,260,255, and Morgan County, the lowest amount of $29,534.
Salt Lake Tribune;
June 15
Wyoming's share of PILT funds $300K less than last year
The federal government's Payment in Lieu of Taxes program provides counties with funding lost due to non-taxable federal lands within their borders, and this year's payout to Wyoming counties was $25.3 million, about $300,000 less than the state got last year.
Casper Star-Tribune;
June 15
B.C. city on track for coldest June on record
June--or Junuary as Vancouver residents are calling this month--has been a cool one in the British Columbia city, with the mean temperature two degrees cooler than June 2011.
Vancouver Sun;
June 15
Tribes
Montana tribes celebrate 30th anniversary of tribal wilderness
Thirty years ago, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes designated 93,000 acres on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana as the Mission Mountains Tribal Wilderness and this week, the tribes celebrated that anniversary.
Missoulian;
June 15
Environment
Loggers say USFS policies impeding tree removal
Logging companies said that U.S. Forest Service policies are driving them out of business at a time when beetle-killed forests in Colorado and Wyoming are in much need of thinning, but agency officials said the national housing slowdown that clobbered the lumber market and rising fuel prices are more to blame.
Denver Post (AP);
June 15
Montana FWP raises quotas for mountain lions, reduces other licenses
An explosion in the mountain lion population in some areas of Montana was cited by the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission for the one-year spike in hunting quotas for the species, and dramatic drops in whitetail populations in the eastern portion of the state were cited in the decisions to lower the number of special licenses for whitetail in that area of the state.
Helena Independent Record;
June 15
Utah counties seek state funds to help in weed fight
The Utah Legislature created a $1 million fund administered by the state Department of Agriculture to help fight invasive weeds, and Tooele, Juab and Utah counties are seeking some of those funds to help control Squarrose knapweed.
Salt Lake Tribune;
June 15
Politics
Rex Rammell moves out of Idaho to Wyoming
Former elk rancher and frequent Republican candidate for public office Rex Rammell has taken a job in Wyoming and is in the process of moving his family from Idaho to Torrington.
Casper Star-Tribune (AP);
June 15
Economy
Wyoming mine being refurbished to provide a peek into the past
Gold was first pulled from the Carissa Mine in 1867, but the Wyoming mine has been shuttered since 1953, and the state took ownership in 2003 and work is under way to restore the decades-old machinery to give visitors a glimpse of what mining looked like last century.
Casper Star-Tribune;
June 15
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"W e need to understand the conditions we're facing today. They're different than what we used to deal with. We're seeing erratic fire behavior, more erratic weather."
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