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Havre and Hill County officials were meeting with National Weather Service representatives in Havre this morning to talk about the flooding in the region, as Blaine County also issued a disaster declaration. Hill County said it is pursuing a state and federal disaster declaration due to the flooding. In a message sent at 3:28 this morning, Hill County Commission Chair Mark Peterson said he flew over western Hill County to inspect damage and flooding, and saw water everywhere...
3:30 p.m. Hill County Commission Chair Mark Peterson said the commission declared the county a disaster at 11:25 this morning. That could help the county government and residents access alternative funding to help pay for the damage caused by flooding, he said. In Blaine County, the government this afternoon released a statement that Milk River and its tributaries are flooding throughout that county and issued a list of roads that are closed due to flooding: Highland Road...
President Donald Trump's 2019 proposed budget represents a step backward for Rocky Boy's/North Central Montana Regional Water System, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said in a letter to Trump Tuesday, the same day he and Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., announced a hearing for a bill that could provide funding for such projects. Cuts to the Bureau of Reclamation in the president's budget, Tester said, would reduce funding for the project by $8.2 million, and the Fort Peck...
The St. Mary's Diversion should be part of President Donald Trump's proposed push to rebuild rural infrastructure, but done with responsible management of taxpayer dollars in mind U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., said Tuesday during a roundtable discussion with area agriculture producers at Havre Inn and Suites. "The president is talking about spending on rural infrastructure. I would put the St. Mary's at the top of the list in terms of the needs of rural Montana, but we...
Despite a summer plagued by heat and drought that contributed to low water levels, a local biologist said the fish population of Fresno Reservoir, Bear Paw Lake and Beaver Creek Reservoir are on track to recovery, if the drought does not continue. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks fisheries biologist Cody Nagel said Thursday that recent surveys showed this summer's low pool levels hurt the population of younger forage fish - young perch, crappie and shiner - in Fresno. The brig...
Over the weekend, cooler and wetter weather helped ease the effects of this year’s fire season, but most of the counties within the Lewistown Fire Restriction Area have decided to stay in fire restrictions, with the exception of Chouteau and Phillips Counties. These two counties along with Montana Department of Natural Resource & Conservation rescinded Stage 1 fire restrictions effective immediately. Blaine, Golden Valley, Hill, Roosevelt, Sheridan and Valley Counties are currently in Stage 1 fire restrictions, including a...
Kenneth Alan Shelhamer, 68, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, at Northern Montana Care Center. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017, at the St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in Harlem with Father Michael Schneider officiating. Burial will follow in the Harlem Cemetery with military honors. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Please visit Ken’s online memorial page and leave a message of c...
Havre Daily News staff The price of a lifetime Senior Pass to the nation’s national parks is going to go up eight timesnext week, with the price, $10 since 1994, hitting $80 as of Monday. National Park Service says the increase, included in legislation passed by Congress in December, will be used to enhance the visitor experience in the parks. The Senior Pass is a one-time lifetime fee, giving entrance to the 118 of the 417 national parks that charge a fee — which include Glacier and Yellowstone national parks — to peopl...
Havre Daily News staff More work is underway on the roads and bridges at Fresno Dam and reservoir that will lead to some restricted traffic on weekdays. Monday, equipment and supplies for a project to upgrade and preserve the surface of the roadways on and near the dam were taken to Fresno, and Federal Highway Administration Project Engineer Matt Bean said this morning crack sealing operations would start today. The schedule will call for flaggers Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., with pilot cars at times, he said....
Editor's note: This story has been updated with new information provided by the Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited about the order in which the phases of work will be done. Havre Daily News staff With water levels at Fresno Reservoir at their lowest level in some 15 years cutting into fishing and recreation at the site west of Havre, the Fresno Chapter of Walleyes Unlimited are taking advantage of the situation. Chuck Wimmer, treasurer of the Fresno Chapter, said when the...
Havre Daily News staff With levels at Fresno and Nelson reservoirs at their lowest levels in years, the federal agency that administers the irrigation reservoirs said the water should start rising soon. The Bureau of Reclamation, which runs the reservoirs as part of the Milk River Project created at the start of the last century to provide irrigation water — they also provide municipal water to cities on the Milk River — said irrigation operations are starting to ramp down, about a month sooner than normal. BOR said in a rel...
Advocates say it's high time Fresno Reservoir be recognized and authorized as what it already is - a recreational body of water and fishery as well as an irrigation reservoir. This year's drought has diminished pool levels of the reservoir and, consequently, revived conversation about why, after decades of recreational and angler use, Fresno is still only federally recognized as an irrigation storage reservoir. Carolyn Anderson, a former member of the Fresno Chapter of...
Generations of Montanans have cultivated the land and passed family farms and ranches down to their children. Their work has built Montana’s economy and preserved a way of life that still defines our state today. But with the ground cracking underneath us, we are reminded of how fragile this way of life is. As our number one economic driver, Montana agriculture, has supported our economy through seasons of plenty and seasons of drought, including physical drought and unseasonable rains. In Montana we’ve seen them both and...
Last week, amid sweltering heat and arid conditions, the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation was grappling with a shortage of available drinking water. Chippewa Cree Tribal Water Resources Director Dustin White said July 10 that the water situation on the reservation was critical. Water levels within the reservation's water storage tanks had only 4 or 5 feet of water remaining. Unless people took measures to conserve water, the entire reservation would have...
Montana's U.S. Sens. Jon Tester and Steve Daines reintroduced a bill Thursday to provide a guaranteed annual fund of $80 million over 20 years for rural water projects including the Rocky Boy's-North Central Regional Water System and allow the reservation to purchase a new water storage tank. A joint press release from the senators said the Authorized Rural Water Projects Completion Act would immediately make funds available to two authorized water projects in Montana,...
A small leak that was discovered Thursday on part of the St. Mary Diversion is being monitored by the Bureau of Reclamation and Milk River Irrigation Project Joint Board of Control. Jennifer Patrick, project manager of the Board of Control, said the leak was discovered by BOR crews Thursday on the bottom of a buried siphon along the St. Mary Diversion in the Babb area. “It’s small right now; it’s a very small leak,” Patrick said this morning. She said water delivery is continuing as normal through the St. Mary Diversi...
The group working to repair the water system that provides close to half — almost all in some years — of the water flowing through the Milk River met last week to continue the discussion about repairing the 110-year-old irrigation and municipal water system. A press release about the meeting says The St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group had some good news — its former coordinator, Alan Mikkelsen, has been appointed as Bureau of Reclamation deputy commissioner and is stationed in Washington, D.C. The group has been working fo...
from Fish, Wildlife and Parks Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks is seeking public comment on a draft management plan for the Fresno Reservoir Wildlife Management Area. The comment period will run from March 29 through April 27. The Fresno Reservoir WMA is located in Hill County just upstream of Fresno Reservoir. The WMA is on Bureau of Reclamation property, but is managed by FWP under a joint management agreement between FWP and BOR. The management plan identifies the objectives for wildlife habitat, weed management,...
Press release The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will hold a regular meeting Friday, Feb. 10, at 10:30 a.m. at the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Headquarters in Helena. The commission will look at a variety of issues and make final decisions on Future Fisheries Projects, a rule allowing lighted nocks on arrows, and 2017 spring turkey license quotas. Also on the agenda for a final decision from the commission are the approval of waters for commercial bait seining annual rule and the wildlife management area biennial...
Press release The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will hold a regular meeting Friday, Feb. 10, at 10:30 a.m. at the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Headquarters in Helena. The commission will look at a variety of issues and make final decisions on Future Fisheries Projects, a rule allowing lighted nocks on arrows, and 2017 spring turkey license quotas. Also on the agenda for a final decision from the commission are the approval of waters for commercial bait seining annual rule and the wildlife management area biennial...
Bureau of Land Management officials will host an open house at their Havre field office Wednesday night to discuss the possible transfer of 16,000 acres of federal land to state control, including 2,560 acres in Hill and Chouteau counties. “It is really just an open house to provide information to the public and seeking comment about what they see as issues with this project or this undertaking,” said Stanley Jaynes, field manager of the Havre field office. The state has tentatively identified 2,400 acres in Chouteau County a...
Farmers, ranchers, political figures and others attended the Hill County Conservation District’s annual legislative dinner Wednesday night in Montana State University-Northern’s Student Union Building Ballroom. The dinner served as a venue for discussion about the district’s activities and projects this year as well as a chance for local officials and candidates for political office to introduce themselves to the agriculture community. For $25, attendees dined on prime rib and salad, as they listened to members of the board...
The Hill County Conservation District board will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 27, at the USDA Building, 206 25th Ave. W. Suite 1, Havre. The agenda: Call the meeting to order Agenda additions Approval of minutes Treasurer’s report Ownership maps Bureau of Reclamation contribution Bills to be paid out of county funds Reimbursement for postage Fee for mailings National Association of Conservation dues Bills to be paid for out of checking Ownership maps (4) and books (2), additional $14 to Hill County commissioners Public c...
Press release The St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group will be holding a meeting in Havre Tuesday, Jan. 12, from 10 a.m. to noon. The meeting will be in the Havre City Hall meeting room. The public is welcome to attend. The group is working to procure funding to repair the St. Mary Diversion. The system, which diverts water from the St. Mary River into the North Fork of the Milk River, was one of the first projects authorized for the Bureau of Reclamation to construct after the bureau was created in 1902. It is part of the...
St. Mary rehabilitation meeting set for Tuesday A meeting of a group working to find funds to rebuild the system that supplies much of the water in the Milk River each year is meeting in Havre next week, with an agenda that includes a moment of remembrance of one of the driving forces behind the group. St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group will meet in the basement meeting room of Havre City Hall Tuesday starting at 10 a.m. The agenda lists a moment of remembrance for Blaine County agricultural producer Randy Reed, one of...
