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News from MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks KALISPELL — Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is opening a public scoping period for a potential project that would place approximately 113,951 acres of timberland in northwest Montana under a conservation easement and protect working lands, public recreation access, and wildlife habitat. FWP is working with The Trust for Public Land and landowners SPP Montana, LLC and Green Diamond Resource Company on the potential easement around the Thompson Chain of Lakes in Lincoln, Flathead, and Sanders counties. If approved, FWP would hold the conservation easement while SPP and Green Diamond would maintain ownership of the land. The easement ...
LAKE COUNTY — Mission Valley Power gave an annual report to Tribal Council that week that included information about a possible rate hike that would help the power company manage rising costs of materials needed to help keep the lights on for the Flathead Reservation. According to General Mana...
News from CSKT/MT Dept. of Natural Resources & Conservation HELENA — Appointed members of the Flathead Reservation Water Management Board selected Georgia Smies to serve as the fifth board member on Feb. 2, 2022, during the second meeting of the Board. The Secretary of the Interior will ...
LAKE COUNTY — Two local medical centers, St. Luke Community Healthcare in Ronan and Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Polson, are renewing efforts to get staff and contractors fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by March 15, the date set by a federal vaccine mandate recently upheld by the Supreme C...
HOT SPRINGS — The annual Lunar New Year parade kicked off in Hot Springs on Saturday with a colorful display put together by the community. Celebrating the Year of the Tiger, the parade was launched with the shot of a cannon, and a tiger danced its way to the front of the procession to lead the way ...
News from DPHHS HELENA — Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) Director Adam Meier announced on Feb. 2 approval of the Family First Prevention Plan by the Federal Children’s Bureau. The five-year plan emphasizes prevention services aimed at keeping children and youth safe...
Harrison Norling RONAN — Harrison James Norling was born on Jan. 29, 2022, at the St. Luke New Beginnings Birth Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces. Parents are Bryce and Phoebe Norling of Ronan. Paternal grandparents are Thomas and Rhea Gates of St. Ignatius. Maternal grandparents are Chris and...
News from MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks KALISPELL — The group responsible for developing Montana’s new trapper education program is meeting on Friday, Feb. 11, in Polson. The meeting will start at 9 a.m. at the Red Lion Inn & Suites, 209 Ridgewater Drive. Members of the public a...
News from the Office of the Governor HELENA — On Jan. 31, the last day of Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, Governor Greg Gianforte announced a partnership between Town Pump, the LifeGuard Group, and the State of Montana to raise awareness and put an end to human trafficking in Monta...
POLSON — Local author Maggie Plummer has just released her latest novel, Eagle in Flight, the third book in her semi-autobiographical Jessie Morgan Series. The novel begins in May 1975, as Jessie escapes to the remote wilds of northern British Columbia. Traumatized by her ex-boyfriend’s violen...
