Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
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Stalks of corn tower over Greg Price. Their tassels wave in the breeze as Price weaves through rows on a warm September afternoon in Missoula. He points to goldfinches and red-winged blackbirds flitting through the air, smiling when the birds swoop down to the massive face of the randomly dispersed sunflowers among the corn. They’ll snag a few seeds before flapping back into the cottonwood trees bordering River Road Farm, where Price has been director for nearly 25 years. “We grow these sunflowers just for the birds,” he says. “It’s good food...
NorthWestern Energy has been ordered by state regulators to take its 20-year power plan back to the drawing board. The move comes after analysts for the Montana Public Service Commission found deficiencies in the utility’s Integrated Resource Plan, or IRP. It’s essentially a roadmap that estimates power needs and how the utility will cost-effectively supply that power to its customers over the next two decades. Commissioners voted 3-1 last week to require NorthWestern to address flaws found in the plan, according to an independent review fro...
The Trump administration is proposing to rescind the Roadless Rule, a 25-year-old policy that bars development like road construction and logging on nearly 45 million acres of national forest land, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced. In a press release, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said the rule has led to overgrown and diseased forests ripe for deadly wildfires by limiting where the U.S. Forest Service can build roads and manage timber. Rescinding the Roadless Rule, the release said, will prioritize local decision-making...
This story is produced by Montana Free Press/Mountain Journal in collaboration with Grist as part of the Report for America Local News Initiative. For the past several weeks a familiar, albeit unwelcome, summer guest has settled into Montana. Despite a slower start than expected, fire season is here. And the outside world now exists in the sepia-toned hue of sunlight filtered through smoky skies. The lighting casts an eerie shadow on the snake plant sitting in Ethan Walker's office window in...
