Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
Serving Southern Jefferson County in the Great State of Montana
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Senator Steve Daines received federal agency backing on Thursday, February 12, 2026, for his bill to downgrade three remote Montana landscapes from potential wilderness to regular public forest. Officials from the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management told the Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining they supported Daines’ S.3527, the Montana Sportsmen Conservation Act. Chris French, associate chief for the Forest Service, told the subcommittee the Trump administration didn’t support creating new wildernesses or wilde...
One of the renowned primatologist’s final acts was to record a video message for the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, just days before she died. The name David Graybeard may not ring many bells, but it struck the science world like a sonar blast when it hit the scene in the 1960s. Naming violated rules of the scientific community at the time, when Jane Goodall gave it to a chimpanzee she was studying in Tanzania’s Gombe National Park. Giving animals names anthropomorphized them, invited emotional bias, and disrupted the statistics. So, whe...
