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Press release The Bureau of Land Management Central Montana Resource Advisory Council will meet Oct. 12-13 at the Great Northern Hotel & Steakhouse, 2 S. First St. E. in Malta. During the meetings the council is scheduled to participate in, discuss and act upon a number of BLM related topics and activities. There will be a roundtable discussion among council members and the BLM, a District Manager’s update and presentations on current resource management issues. The meeting is open to the public and the public comment period...
By Bureau of Land Management Whether you have already explored the Upper Missouri Breaks' majestic formations or you have yet to float the river, you won't want to miss the chance to take home a piece of it. People are invited to join the U.S. Bureau of Land Management on June 25 at 1:30 p.m. at the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument Interpretive Center in Fort Benton for the second showing by renowned Artist in Residence Paul Tunkis. His artwork will be on...
Press release Chris Moore, 32, of Allen, Texas, and Hays residents Chase and Warren Morin, 27 and 51, respectively, were separately charged with violations involving the illegal harvest of a mule deer buck on Bureau of Land Management property near Bird Tail Road in southwest Blaine County. In 2014, Moore obtained a non-tribal member deer hunting license from Fort Belknap Fish and Wildlife for the 2014 rifle season. To use the non-member license, Fort Belknap Fish and Wildlife requires non-tribal members to utilize the...
"These people aren't easy to get ahold of." "They don't respond to anybody." Havre Realtor Sheila Forshee said the former, City Council chairman Andrew Brekke the latter. The sentiment was echoed several times as this series of articles on Sunrise Financial Group LLC was being written. Sunrise Financial Group is a company that buys tax liens at annual tax lien sales across Montana. They've bought 80 tax liens in Hill County in the last four years - 20 of those properties...
Havre Daily News staff Bear Paw Development Corp. announced it has hired Taylor Lyon of Chester to work as its Food and Agriculture director. Lyon previously worked as the plant manager for Earl Fisher Biofuels in Chester and is the founder of the Montana Biofuel Exchange LLC, which collects used cooking oil from restaurants and processes it into biodiesel and animal feed. "While new to our organization, Taylor has been involved in the area of value-added agriculture and...
I attended a social gathering several years ago in the Bitterroot Valley. As the hostess stood nearby, I admired the mountains framed by the tall windows in her home. “The view out my window is the most stunning in the state!” she said. “It’s why we moved here!” I told her I had an ocean view out my window and she looked puzzled. “I thought you lived in eastern Montana?” “I do!” I replied. My genetic roots run deep in the high plains of northern and southeastern Montana. In the early 1900s, when my homesteader grandparents st...
U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont. Being a Conservative and being a conservationist are not mutually exclusive. It’s actually my conservative principles that drive my commitment to conservation. Whether one believes our Earth was created by God or not, nobody can argue the fact that it is the only one we have. It’s our responsibility to be good stewards and ensure our children and grandchildren’s children enjoy the same outdoor opportunities that we have. When you sent me to Washington, protecting Montana’s public lands was, and r...
Press release An agency has presented Kenny Keever, Bureau of Land Management invasive weed specialist at the BLM Havre Field Office and Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument, with the Barb Mullin Lifetime Achievement Award at the Montana Weed Control Association conference "Kenny is always willing to spend his personal time and resources to support invasive plant management, and represent the model envisioned for the Barb Mullin Achievement Award for communication...
HELENA (AP) — A federal agency is proposing to grant the American Prairie Reserve a permit for 385 bison to graze year-round on 13,000 acres of public land in Phillips County. Bureau of Land Management officials said Monday the Flat Creek Allotment has historically been used for cattle grazing. The American Prairie Reserve last year bought land adjacent to the allotment and applied to switch its grazing permit from cattle to bison and from seasonal to year-round. The proposed decision calls for the removal of interior f...
From The Friends of the Missouri Breaks Monument FORT BENTON - Whether you've already been captivated by the Missouri Breaks or are still planning a canoe trip through the White Cliffs, you won't want to miss your chance Saturday, Nov. 14 to take home a piece of this stunning landscape. Friends of the Missouri Breaks Monument and the Bureau of Land Management are hosting the event at 1 p.m. at the Upper Missouri River Breaks Interpretive Center in Fort Benton. The 25 original...
Fire restrictions have been lifted on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. Burn permits are still required in all counties for any debris or agricultural burning and may have additional limits, according to the federal Bureau of Land Management. Restrictions have been lifted slowly in other municipalities over the last two weeks as temperatures dropped and it started raining more. Rocky Boy was the last municipality to be freed of the restrictions. BLM asked people to check with the sheriff’s office or fire department for inf...
Stage 1 fire restrictions have been rescinded on all private, state and Bureau of Land Management lands within Blaine County. Fire restrictions remain in effect at Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. Last week, restrictions were lifted for Hill County and the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation area of Blaine County. BLM officials said recent moisture and cooler temperatures have slowed the fire season. But they warned that dangers still remain from this summer’s hot, dry conditions. The Lewistown Area Restrictions Group reminds the...
Fire restrictions have been lifted in most of Hill County for private, state and Bureau of Land Management lands. Fire restrictions remain in effect on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation and in Blaine County except for Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. Cooler weather and rains have made it possible to remove the restrictions, according to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Campfires are allowed in the following locations: • Blaine County • Hideaway and Stafford Ferry campsites within the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monum...
Staff and wire report Access to 50,000 acres of federal land in the Upper Missouri River Breaks in north-central Montana soon will be reopened to the public. Dan and Farris Wilks announced in a press release that Bullwhacker Road in Blaine County, located on the Anchor Ranch owned by the brothers, will be opened from Sept. 1 through Jan. 1. A 2011 court ruling in favor of the previous owners of the ranch kept the road closed to public access. In a show of goodwill to Montana hunters and the Bureau of Land Management, Farris...
GREAT FALLS (AP) — Access to 50,000 acres of federal land in the Upper Missouri River Breaks in north-central Montana will be reopened to the public soon. The road on the ranch owned by Dan and Farris Wilks has been closed since 2011. But in a show of goodwill to Montana hunters and the Bureau of Land Management, Farris Wilks says the road will be opened from Sept. 1 through Jan. 1. The brothers have proposed a land exchange with the BLM to consolidate their ranch holdings in Fergus County. The proposal is still pending r...
GREAT FALLS (AP) — Montana's largest landowner is proposing a new land exchange with the federal Bureau of Land Management after a previous one met opposition from hunters. Farris Wilks and his brother, Dan, who own the NBar Ranch at Grass Range in Fergus County, are proposing, on a preliminary basis, to give 5,200 acres of their land to the BLM in return for 4,900 acres of BLM land. About 3,400 acres of the Wilks property that would be exchanged is inside the Upper Missouri Breaks National Monument and 640 acres is a...
Staff and wire report A Rocky Boy man and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management official who supervised his work in Virginia have been sentenced to time in prison and ordered to pay back tens of thousands of dollars they defrauded from the federal government. Larry Ray Denny of Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation, former deputy state director of BLM’s Eastern States Region, pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud, making false claims and theft of government property. Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Brian Morris sentenced Denny to one...
A man working for the government who falsely issued checks to a Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation man was sentenced Tuesday to six months in prison. Larry Ray Denny, a former employee of the United States Bureau of Land Management, is scheduled to be sentenced July 29 at 1:30 p.m. at the Missouri River Federal Courthouse in Great Falls. His former boss, John Grimson Lyon, was sentenced Tuesday at the federal courthouse. He will be staying with the Bureau of Prisons for six months for charges of wire fraud/scheme to defraud the U...
BILLINGS (AP) — A senior official in the U.S. Bureau of Land Management faces sentencing in federal court today for covering up for a subordinate who kept drawing government pay after leaving the agency for a job in Montana. Prosecutors are recommending at least two years in prison for John Grimson Lyon of Clifton, Virginia. The former director for the BLM's 31-state Eastern States Region was convicted by a jury in March of wire fraud, false claims and theft of government property. The charges followed an investigation t...
Montana FSA U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency Administrator Val Dolcini announced that FSA began accepting applications Tuesday from foresters and farmers seeking financial assistance to harvest and deliver biomass to generate clean energy. The support comes through the Biomass Crop Assistance Program, which was re-authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill. For 2015, USDA has reserved up to $11.5 million to assist with the cost of removing woody or herbaceous residues from farm fields or national forests and woodlands...
On May 28, the Bureau of Land Management reached a historic milestone in its effort to conserve the imperiled greater sage-grouse. The plans proposed by the BLM would protect the West’s sagebrush sea, which acts as essential habitat for the sage-grouse as well as mule deer, pronghorn and hundreds of other wildlife species. The agency has taken a big step toward balancing multiple use activities on Western public lands while keeping the sage-grouse off the endangered species list. While the sage-grouse protections are i...
Staff and wire report A successful program to fight fraud and corruption on Montana Indian reservations was lauded this week in the nation’s capitol. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson recognized Montana U.S. Attorney Mike Cotter Tuesday with the agency’s prestigious Inspector General’s Award for Excellence for his efforts and the efforts of his office in combating corruption in federal grants and contracts with the Guardians Project, a multi-agency strike force Cotter estab...
U.S Department of Agriculture WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced June 1 that incentives will resume this summer for farmers, ranchers and forest landowners interested in growing and harvesting biomass for renewable energy. The support comes through the Biomass Crop Assistance Program, which was reauthorized by the 2014 Farm Bill. BCAP provides financial assistance to establish and maintain new crops of energy biomass, or for the harvest and delivery of forest or agricultural residues to a qualifying ene...
At the Havre Trails meeting Monday, the group looked forward to the future. Later this month, members will find out whether or not they received the Fish, Wildlife and Parks Recreational Trails grant. They also spoke of looking into identifying possible hiking trail areas on the north side of the Milk River, especially near the rookery. “We’re kind of in this weird spot right now,” said Lindsey Bennett, president of Havre Trails. She added that they are afraid of taking on any bigger projects until they find out if they...
Staff and wire report While even some Republicans including Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead supported a new U.S. Interior Department plan to preserve sage grouse habitat, some Montanans including Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock aren't quite as happy with the plans. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell revealed plans Thursday to preserve habitat in 10 Western states, including Montana, for the imperiled ground-dwelling bird, the federal government's biggest land-planning effort to date for...
