Hunting and Fishing

Missoulian: Open water fishing application due Nov. 1
Applications For Open Water Fishing Contests Due Nov. 1

Missoulian: Guidelines to reduce elk population to be discussed

Montana Statewide Elk Management

Fish & Wildlife Commission Work Session Set For Sept. 18 In Helena
“Montana's Fish & Wildlife Commission will hold a work session on Sept. 18 in Helena to further discuss proposed hunting season guidelines aimed at reducing some elk populations.”

Refugees

Missoulian: Kerry: US committed to accepting more refugees to aid allies
Refugee Admissions
“According to UNHCR’s latest statistics, there are approximately 15.4 million refugees in the world. The vast majority of these refugees will receive support in the country to which they fled until they can voluntarily and safely return to their home country. A small number of refugees will be allowed to become citizens in the country to which they fled, and an even smaller number — primarily those who are at the highest risk — will be resettled in a third country. While UNHCR reports that less than 1 percent of all refugees are eventually resettled in third countries, the United States welcomes over half of these refugees, more than all other resettlement countries combined.”

Tongue River Railroad/ Fracking Waste Water

Missoulian: Missoula to feds: Tongue River Railroad analysis is incomplete
Tongue River Railroad Environmental Impact Statement
“On October 16, 2012, Tongue River Railroad Company, Inc. (TRRC) filed a revised application with the Surface Transportation Board (Board). TRRC intended to construct and operate an approximately 83-mile rail line between Miles City, Montana, and two ending points, one near the site of the previously planned Montco mine near Ashland, Montana, and another at the proposed Otter Creek mine in the Otter Creek area east of Ashland, Montana.”
Tongue River Railroad

Missoulian: Drilling boom brings rising number of harmful waste spills
Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas on Drinking
“Water Resources “Potential impacts to drinking water resources may occur if hydraulic fracturing wastewater is inadequately treated and discharged to surface water. Inadequately treated hydraulic fracturing wastewater may increase concentrations of TDS, bromide, chloride, and iodide in receiving waters.”
EPA's Study of Hydraulic Fracturing for Oil and Gas and Its Potential Impact on Drinking Water Resources

Labor Day!

Happy Labor Day!

History of Labor Day
"The first Labor Day holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, in accordance with the plans of the Central Labor Union. The Central Labor Union held its second Labor Day holiday just a year later, on September 5, 1883.
In 1884 the first Monday in September was selected as the holiday, as originally proposed, and the Central Labor Union urged similar organizations in other cities to follow the example of New York and celebrate a "workingmen's holiday" on that date. The idea spread with the growth of labor organizations, and in 1885 Labor Day was celebrated in many industrial centers of the country."

DOL's Historian on the History of Labor Day

“Labor Day as a national, legal holiday had an interesting evolution. The legalized celebration of Labor Day began as individual state celebrations. In 1887, New York, New Jersey and Colorado were among the first states to approve state legal holidays. Then other states joined in to create their own state Labor Days. Finally, in response to a groundswell of support for a national holiday celebrating the nation’s workers, Sen. James Henderson Kyle of South Dakota introduced S. 730 to the 53rd Congress to make Labor Day a legal holiday on the first Monday of September each year. It was approved on June 28, 1894.”

Rosie: By Any Other Name - The Riveting True Story of the Labor Icon