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  • More on the Montana brucellosis

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is the latest news as reported by the Bozeman Chronicle. By Scott McMillion. The infected cattle at Bridger, Montana, might have originated from near Emigrant (closer to Yellowstone Park, but still not an area where they would ever encounter bison). [Governor] Schweitzer said last week that it doesn’t appear the infected herd ever commingled…

  • Instead of slowing down, CO2 is increasing at an increasing rate.

    Ralph Maughan

    I guess it’s redundant to say this, but this very bad news. The headline is misleading because it’s not just a rise, but steepening rise. Scientists report rise in levels of carbon dioxide. By Robert S. Boyd. McClatchy Newspapers If we are lucky the rising rate is due to increased human use of fossil fuels,…

  • 23 years after historic water pact, Idaho Power Co. sues state

    Ralph Maughan

    Idaho irrigators, boaters, fishers, commerical trout farmers, conservationists, anyone with a water right on the Snake River, and electrical power users have come to view the Swan Falls agreement of 1985 as a turning point in Idaho politics and water law. Now Idaho Power is going to court to claim that the pact didn’t leave…

  • Brucellosis confirmed in Montana cattle herd

    Ralph Maughan

    Well surprise, brucellosis has actually shown up in Montana livestock, and it didn’t come from bison. The news article says there is a possible link to elk. Well duh! Elk passed brucellosis to cattle in Wyoming and Idaho, and both states lost their “brucellosis free status.” I predicted it for years, while they were yelling…

  • Montana Department of Livestock fills executive post

    Ralph Maughan

    The Board of Livestock hired Christian Mackay, a real estate agent and feed salesman whose background includes work in the beef industry and the labor movement, to succeed Marc Bridges. Bridges retired at the end of 2006. Read the rest in an AP story in the Billings Gazette. These little reported things can be critical.…

  • Rural Electrification Administration is an old, New Deal program that has become little more than program for polluters

    Ralph Maughan

    The REA was created during the New Deal to bring electricity, light and hope to poor rural areas that private utilities did not find it worthwhile to electrify. Many years later the agency is still around and uses your taxpayer money to subsidize the construction of polluting coal-fired power plants to areas that are now…

  • Bush presents a minimal climate change plan

    Ralph Maughan

    The President announced a plan to reduce reliance on foreign oil and reduce emissions, but almost all of it would take place after he has left office, and it is very modest. In fact, one part of his plan might seek to reverse what states have already done on their own to tackle the climate…

  • Glaciers are gone; so why not rename Montana's Glacier National Park?

    Ralph Maughan

    Group wants to rename Glacier. By Bill Schneider. New West. post 1120

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