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Results for keyword: Brian Schweitzer

At last, Yellowstone bison catch a break

Montana is finally working on ways to deal with stray Yellowstone bison without killing them outright or keeping them indefinitely quarantined for fear of brucellosis.

by Mike Leahy, Oct 27, 2011
Yellowstone bison get more room to roam

Wild bison are making headway towards roaming more freely in Montana.

by Sarah Gilman, May 16, 2011
Big rigs and rural roads don't mix

A plan to let gigantic rigs travel Montana's winding rural roads for the sake of a tar sands project in Alberta, Canada, is insane.

by Annick Smith, Nov 04, 2010
'Clean and healthful environment'

Can the Montana Constitution derail a gigantic coal mine?

by Steve Woodruff, Aug 30, 2010
The fight for the Flathead

During the Western Governors' Association meeting in Whitefish, Mont., journalists and dignitaries flew over the threatened landscape around Glacier National Park.

by Ray Ring, Jul 14, 2010
Democrats rise again in the Rockies

Rob Saldin looks at the reasons why the Democrats finally succeeded in breaking the Republican chokehold on the West.

by Rob Saldin, Nov 11, 2008
Heard Around the West

No smoking onstage in Colorado; a really rotten trick; wheat field in the Big Apple; it’s hard to charge a dead man with a crime; Brian Schweitzer and Montana just say no to Homeland Security.

by Betsy Marston, Apr 14, 2008
Heard Around the West

Montana Republican erupts on YouTube; Dogs at Work in Oregon; “Dynamite Shoot” uses real dynamite; wildlife thrives on military bases; “Liberal elk hunting season” in Wyoming; guns beat swords in Utah; taking the cab to Arizona

by Betsy Marston, May 28, 2007
Spinning coal into gasoline

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is eager to build a synfuels plant to turn coal into diesel, but it will neither easy nor cheap to make gas gasification a reality in the West

by Samuel Western, Nov 13, 2006
A New Green Revolution

In Montana’s dying farm country, "vanguard agriculture" is putting people back to work on the land

by Sam Western, Dec 26, 2005