Impaired waters/ Yellowstone

Helena Independent Reporter: State seeks comments on impaired waters report

Public Comment Submittal Application (available 1/4/2012)

Billings Gazette: Yellowstone winter use plan undergoes revisions

Winter Use Plan, Final Environmental Impact Statement Record of Decision, Yellowstone National Park, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming

Planning, Environment & Public Comment

“NPS had intended to issue a final EIS and final long-term regulation for Yellowstone winter use by December 2011. However, some of the more than 59,000 public comments received on the Draft EIS (DEIS) have raised additional questions as to long-term effects and options. In order to make a reasoned, sustainable long-term decision, NPS requires additional time to update its analyses and make that long-term decision. Selecting Alternative 8, the new Preferred Alternative, would provide the additional time needed to complete the analyses of long-term alternatives.”

Medical Pot/ Weather

Missoulian: Study: States that legalized medical pot see decrease in traffic fatalities, beer sales

National Survey on Drug Use & Health

Missoulian: Wide mix of weather expected before New Year's Eve

NOAA: ...Wild and Windy Northern Rockies and Northern Great Plains...

Research fee

Bozeman Chronicle: New fee coming for medical effectiveness research

Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute
“The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) was created to conduct research to provide information about the best available evidence to help patients and their health care providers make more informed decisions. PCORI’s research is intended to give patients a better understanding of the prevention, treatment and care options available, and the science that supports those options.”- PCORI

Full Text of the Affordable Care Act

Cutthroat/ Hydrocodone/ Moon

Bozeman Daily Chronicle: F&G officer gives report on Yellowstone cutthroat trout
Yellowstone and Westslope Cutthroat Trout
“Now, almost 200 years later, both of Montana's very fine cutthroat trout still exist here and are beginning to win some battles in their long upstream fight for survival.”

Bozeman Daily Chronicle: New powerful painkiller has abuse experts worried
Drug Overdose Deaths --- Florida, 2003—2009
“The death rate for prescription drugs increased 84.2%, from 7.3 to 13.4 per 100,000 population from 2003 to 2009. The greatest increase in death rate was observed for the prescription drug oxycodone (264.6%), followed by alprazolam (233.8%), methadone (79.2%), hydrocodone (34.9%), and morphine (26.2%). Conversely, the death rate for heroin decreased 62.2% from 2003 to 2009, and the death rate for cocaine increased until 2007 and then decreased 39.1% from 2007 to 2009.”

Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Twin probes to circle moon to study gravity field
GRAIL: Twin Spacecraft Bound for the Moon
“Clues about our own planet's history -- and the influence of the moon's gravity on Earth, 240,000 miles away -- could be locked below that dusty lunar surface. The Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission, or GRAIL, features twin spacecraft embarking on a challenging mission to map the moon's gravity.”