After more than five years of tug-of-war in the courts and the Montana Legislature, the battle over recreational access to rivers and streams appears to be settled. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/19.3/download-entire-issue
Mike Dennison
Canadian mine threatens northern Montana
The Cabin Creek coal-mining project is in British Columbia would excavate open pits about five miles north of the U.S.-Canadian border and just off the North Fork of the Flathead River. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.15/download-entire-issue
The West learns to live with wood stoves
Only a few short years ago residents of Missoula, Montana, scoffed at the thought that wood-burning stoves and fireplaces — not industry — were the primary cause of the city’s suffocating bouts of winter air pollution. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.14/download-entire-issue
The Montana Legislature gave coal a break
Montana’s coal severance tax may still be the highest in the nation at 30 percent, but a portion of that environmental insurance was chipped away during the 1985 Montana Legislature. Download entire issue to view this article: http://www.hcn.org/issues/17.9/download-entire-issue