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Havre Daily News staff Agencies have told the public that, despite releases from Fresno Reservoir for irrigation ending for the season, lower water levels in the reservoir are likely to impact fishing and irrigation at the reservoir. The more-than-100-year-old St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works that supplies much of the water in the Milk River has been shut down since a concrete drop structure near the end of the 29-mile system collapsed in May. Work to repair that and another drop structure which had been in fear of...
Blaine County Sheriff's Office posted on its Facebook page today that the Blaine County Commission approved a burn ban in the county effective immediately. The ban is due to extremely hot and dry conditions in the county, the post said. The ban comes as Bureau of Land Management is fighting two fires in the region and a roadside grass fire on U.S. Highway 2 east of Harlem was extinguished Thursday. Watch for more here and in upcoming editions of the Havre Daily...
Chris Aadland Montana Free Press A Montana water rights bill that would end a years-long debate was passed by a congressional committee Wednesday, the next step in ensuring irrigators and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes can avoid lengthy and costly adjudication of irrigation rights. Members of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee passed the Montana Water Rights Protection Act on Wednesday afternoon, the first action federal lawmakers have taken on the bill since it was introduced by Montana Sen. Steve Daines,...
Havre Daily News staff A group of off-road driving enthusiasts is planning a get-together for Saturday in the badlands 20 miles northwest of Havre, not far from Fresno Reservoir, and anyone interested in going, including anyone who has never tried off-road recreation, is welcome to join the group. Nate Ramsey, one of the organizers, said the plan is for everyone to meet at Town Pump on First Street at 11 a.m. and drive together to Fresno OHV Area. Access to the off-highway vehicle area is from Wildhorse Road north of town,...
Unless the political winds in Washington change quickly, Congress will soon send the Great American Outdoors Act — GAOA — to President Trump’s desk. Trump has assured he’ll sign it into law. This legislation represents a dramatic win for Montana’s public lands, its watersheds and wildlife. The bill mandates full funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund — LWCF — a funding mechanism for conservation derived from royalties from offshore gas and oil drilling. Fully funded, the LWCF drops $900 million into wildlife habi...
In a recent U.S. District Court ruling by Judge Brian Morris, the American public heard loud and clear that the federal administration broke the law when it offered leases on public lands in critical Sage grouse habitat. This court decision speaks volumes about how public lands should be managed, with certainty, and in a manner that considers true multiple use — including maintaining wildlife populations. The Department of Interior was found to have violated the law by issuing an instructional memorandum that abandoned the bi...
From Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Many recreationists look forward to May 15 every year as the opening day of many of Montana’s Wildlife Management Areas that are closed between Dec. 1 and May 15 to minimize disturbance to wintering big game. This year is no different, with the exception of the need for people to follow protocols for social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the more popular spots — the Beartooth WMA, between Great Falls and Helena — has curtailed overnight camping and will be open for day-u...
Big Sky businessman Troy Downing is facing off against Billings insurance company employee Nelly Nicol and Helena insurance agent Scott "Tux" Tuxbury in the Republican primary to select the candidate who will advance to the general election in the race for Matt Rosendale's place as Montana auditor. The office regulates insurance and securities in Montana. First-term Auditor Rosendale is not running for re-election and instead is one of five candidates in the Republican...
An attempt to rehabilitate the 100-year-old system that supplies much of the water to the Milk River is facing a legal setback. Wednesday, Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a lawsuit over the protection of bull trout requesting fish screens to be put up. “Bull trout have been listed as ‘Threatened’ under the Endangered Species Act for 20 years, but they are being killed by the hundreds every year due to poor dam design and operation, unscreened diversions into irrigation ditches and river dewatering,” Alliance for the Wil...
Vizsla Brewing hosted Andrew McKean, editor of Outdoor Life Magazine, who gave a presentation on unprotected landscapes in northeast Montana Wednesday. The presentation was attended by almost 50 people, making it the largest of the four showings on McKean's speaking tour so far, which includes Billings and Miles City. The last stop on the trip was his hometown of Glasgow, but he said there was one thing different in Havre. "This is the first place we've had beer," he said....
Andrew McKean, editor of Outdoor Life Magazine and a Glasgow resident, will be giving a presentation on local landscape conservation at 6:30 p.m. at Vizsla Brewing Wednesday. "I call it a landscape appreciation day," McKean said. "... What I want to do is basically say, 'Here are the benefits of some designations of land protection.'" The talk will be part of a wider six-part speaking tour that began last week in Billings and will end in Lewistown this Friday. McKean said...
At recent Hill County Park Board meetings it was requested that livestock grazing be adjusted in our Beaver Creek Park during September to accommodate recreation, primarily in the south end of our park. As stipulated in our patent for Beaver Creek Park recreation is the priority use of our park. With haying and grazing, commercial private agricultural use of our park is occurring from June through December, six months. The most active traditional recreational period has been Memorial Day thru Labor Day, just over three...
From U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency BOZEMAN — The USDA Montana Food and Agriculture Council announced Monday that registration for the 2020 USDA Tribal Outreach Forum. “USDA is hosting this two-day forum to bring people together and highlight key resources available to tribal communities,” said Mike Foster, state executive director for USDA’s Farm Service Agency and 2020 chair of USDA’s interagency council in Montana. The 2018 Farm Bill enacted Dec. 20, 2018, continues its support for America’s...
James “Buzzy” Sangrey, 75, passed away due to natural causes at his residence Tuesday, February 4, 2020. Wake services began at 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 5, 2020, with a rosary recited at 7:00 p.m., and funeral mass at 10:00 a.m. today, February 6, 2020, all at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church. Burial followed in the Warrior’s Burial Grounds Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Buzzy’s online memorial page and leave a m...
Greg Henderson Drovers Journal Reprinted by permission of Drovers Journal The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to overhaul regulations for grazing on 155 million acres of public lands across the western United States. The BLM published a Notice of Intent in the Federal Register Tuesday and opened a public comment period and announced in-person meetings will be held in four locations. The agency announced it is preparing an environmental impact statement on its proposed updated grazing rules, and will address grazing...
By Bureau of Land Management Havre Field Office Manager Ben Hileman, Rangeland Management Specialist Abby Hall and Montana State University-Northern Associate Professor Jeremy Siemens The American Society of Civil Engineers Student Chapter from Montana State University-Northern observed Nov. 19 the construction of the BR-12 Dam north of Zurich. Abby Hall, rangeland management specialist from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management Havre Field Office took a group of civil...
Editor’s note: This version corrects an error that misreported that Jaylen Jake Crazyboy had been arrested in Cascade County. A multitude of news items happened in north-central Montana over the past year, with many issues continuing to create headlines throughout most of the year. Following are just a few of the issues covered in the Havre Daily News in 2019. Amtrak ticket agents A year-and-a-half of cuts, congressional action and negotiations continued into the last couple o...
An attempt to rehabilitate the 100-year-old system that supplies much of the water to the Milk River may be facing a legal setback. Alliance for the Wild Rockies plans to file a lawsuit over the threatened species bull trout in the management of the St Mary Diversion. Alliance for the Wild Rockies Executive Director Mike Garrity said bull trout are being killed by the hundreds every year due to poor dam design, unscreened diversions into irrigation ditches and river...
Note: This was provided by the office of Sen. Jon Tester WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Jon Tester today introduced the historic Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Compact in the United States Senate. The FBIC Water Compact will ratify the FBIC water rights settlement with the State of Montana, establish resources for critical water infrastructure development, provide for tribal and non-tribal irrigation rights, and return sacred FBIC lands to federal trust. “The FBIC Water Compact will provide certainty for water users, hel...
Staff and wire report U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is hosting a public meeting in Chester Wednesday, Oct. 9, to update the public on recreation and resource management issues around Lake Elwel, also known as Tiber Reservoir, southwest of Chester. Topics of discussion will include information on fisheries and wildlife management, aquatic invasive species, recreation improvements and use of Reclamation lands. ”Reclamation considers public engagement important to understanding not only what is happening on our public lands, but a...
Press Release On Sept. 5, 1934, the day Charles Leon Callahan Jr. was born, his father, Charles Callahan Sr., loaded his mother, Ernestine (Watson) Callahan into a cattle truck in Lafayette, Alabama, and drove her to the hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, where he also delivered a load of cattle to market. Charles's parents divorced a few years later, and by age 4 he was living much of the time with aunts and uncles on their South Carolina farms while his mother worked as a...
From Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation MISSOULA — As days become shorter and temperatures drop, the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation and Bureau of Land Management encourage hunters and campers to be cautious with their warming or campfires. Despite the changing weather conditions, vegetation will dry back out this fall and a spark from a warming or campfire could ignite a destructive wildfire. “Over the years on walks through the forest, I have come across more than a few aba...
Editor, Having William Perry Pendley as acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, which manages more public land than any other federal agency, is like the proverbial henhouse-guarding fox — on steroids. Pendley (whom I’ll refer to as WPP, which reminds me of WMD) has been a very public and strident opponent of public lands and has called for them to be sold off. His beliefs go against the interests of Montanans, who greatly value their public lands and want them to remain public. You don’t want them to become the d...
From Fish, Wildlife and Parks Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is hosting a meeting Tuesday, Aug. 27, on the roles of beaver and humans in habitat restoration and water conservation. The meeting’s objective is to increase common awareness of potential opportunities, constraints, mechanisms, authorities, roles and expectations for beavers and other tools to conserve and enhance riparian and aquatic habitats. The meeting is free, and no registration is required. It will be held at the Delta Marriott Hotel in Helena from 8:30 a...
Imagine for one unsettling moment what it would mean to Montana if Glacier, Yellowstone, the Bob Marshall, the Beartooth Mountains, and all other lands and waters belonging to the American people were sold off. It would spell the end of our outdoor way of life, including our ability to hike, hunt, fish, mountain bike and snowmobile; send our economy off of a cliff; and ruin the livelihood of our family ranchers. Who in their right mind would advocate for something so destructive as selling off our public lands? Believe it or...
