Yellowstone Superintendent / Grizzly Delisting

Photo of Patrick Kenney celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Cape Lookout National Seashore with a Junior Ranger. Photo by NPS / Britt Brown

Bozeman Daily Chronicle:  Yellowstone Park names new deputy superintendent

Pat Kenney Named as New Deputy Superintendent 

Bozeman Daily Chronicle:  States, feds still haggling over grizzly delisting details

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Population of Grizzly Bears From the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife

Elouise Cobell / Addition in America

Missoulian: Blackfeet activist Elouise Cobell awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

“Elouise Cobell was a Blackfeet Tribal community leader and an advocate for Native American self-determination and financial independence.  She used her expertise in accounting to champion a lawsuit that resulted in a historic settlement, restoring tribal homelands to her beloved Blackfeet Nation and many other tribes, and in so doing, inspired a new generation of Native Americans to fight for the rights of others.”

Missoulian: Surgeon general report: 'Addiction is not a character flaw'

Facing Addiction in America

Badger-Two Medicine/ Trans-Pacific Partnership

Missoulian: US cancels energy leases in sacred Badger-Two Medicine area

Secretary Jewell, Senator Tester, Blackfeet Nation and Devon Energy Announce Cancellation of Oil & Gas Leases in Montana’s Lewis and Clark National Forest
“ U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined U.S. Senator Jon Tester, Blackfeet Nation Chairman Harry Barnes and Devon Energy Corporation President and CEO David Hager to announce that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has canceled 15 additional oil and gas leases in the Badger-Two Medicine area of the Lewis and Clark National Forest in northwestern Montana. Devon Energy owns an interest in these federal leases. The lease cancellations address outstanding concerns about the potential for oil and gas development in this culturally and ecologically important area.”

Missoulian: Montana farm groups push Trans Pacific Partnership approval

Trans-Pacific Partnership

Hate in 2015

Missoulian: FBI: Hate crimes against Muslims up 67 percent in 2015

Latest Hate Crime Statistics Released

Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Moon to be bigger, brighter than in several decades

November Supermoon a Spectacular Sight