NW Forest Plan not saving owls; logging planned for
beetle-infested forests in Wash. and Idaho; Canadian company to
drill for oil on Blackfeet Reservation; Montana press secretary
Andrew Malcolm to work for Bush campaign; Navajo Nation sues
Peabody Coal.
Items by Pat Dawson
Montana's Crow Indians are fighting to get money they say
was improperly collected in coal severance taxes from Crow-owned
coal.
A jury made mostly of hunters finds Chad McKittrick guilty
in the death of a reintroduced wolf, and castigates his lack of
"hunting ethics."
Indian sacred sites are vulnerable to mining because the
American Indian Religious Freedom Act has no teeth.
The BLM refuses permission to explore gold-mining claims
in the Sweet Grass hills.
The Pegasus gold mine plans expansion amid Assiniboine and
Gros Ventre tribes' accusations of pollution.
The gray wolf is coming back to Montana, and those who raise sheep and other livestock are going to have to learn to live with it.
The Crow have been one of the more flexible tribes in adapting to the ways of the dominant culture. But tribal leaders fear their easygoing ways may cost Crow children their ancestral ground.
Wolves were thought to be extinct in this part of the country, wiped out over a half-century ago by bounty hunters and government trappers. But this year, in southeastern Montana, they're the center of the talk.
- Was Yellowstone’s deadliest wolf hunt in 100 years an inside job?
- Scientists unravel the origins of the Southwest’s monsoon
- Alaska’s Willow Project promises huge amounts of oil — and huge environmental impacts
- The fires below
- The White Sands discovery only confirms what Indigenous people have said all along
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