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“This effort represents the ideal kind of partnerships that we need to preserve Montana's wildlife habitat and our way of life”

A $13 million grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to The Nature Conservancy includes at least $2 million for the conservation of critical wildlife habitat in Montana. via Great Falls Tribune

Send this Headwaters page to a friend or colleague: USFS' road work will provide economic bump to Idaho, Montana The Northern Region of the U.S. Forest Service, which covers Idaho, Montana and the Dakotas, ... via Headwaters News

“What really makes the city run well are the employees”

Greg Doyon was pru dently circumspect in his comments earlier this week as he took over as city manager of Great Falls. via Great Falls Tribune

“It's going to devastate the drug task force”

KALISPELL - A campaign is under way to restore money for Montana's seven regional drug task forces after funding was slashed by 67 percent nationwide in President Bush's fiscal year 2008 budget. via Great Falls Tribune

A campaign is under way to restore money for Montana's seven regional drug task forces. via Montana's News Station

THOMPSON FALLS - A drunken driver, convicted of running down two Flathead Valley teenagers a year ago near Plains, has been sentenced to 10 years in the custody of the Montana Department of Corrections. via Great Falls Tribune

“There's a lot of history in this old barn”

SOMERS - A two-headed brook trout is preserved in a jar of alcohol at the Flathead Lake Salmon Hatchery south of Somers. via Great Falls Tribune

Longtime Flathead Valley broadcaster George Ostrom has left KOFI-AM after he says he was told not to air a story about a former station employee who has been indicted for mail fraud. via Montana's News Station

Authorities in the Flathead Valley are investigating the shooting death of a toddler near Kalispell. via KPAX

Construction on U.S. Highway 2 on Havre is getting back underway on Monday. We're told that traffic in downtown Havre will be diverted to two single lanes on the south side as preparations are made to mill off ... via KRTV

“Experience has shown us that people will arrive en masse after a fire to harvest mushrooms”

Come spring, rising like a phoenix from the ashes of a fiery forest summer season, a fungus will emerge to entice hordes of humans into the woods of western Montana. via Missoulian

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing to more than quadruple the amount of lands identified as critical habitat for the threatened Canada lynx. via KRTV

“Powell's wife objected to having her, and as we have no cook, it seems to fall to my lot to take her and take care of her. So, I find myself a married man. I might do worse. She is neat and rather good looking and seems to be of good disposition.”

March 1, 1862 "Marrying is rapidly becoming an epidemic in our little village." So claimed Granville Stuart, after brother James took a ransomed Snake Indian as his wife in the mining camp of American Fork. via Missoulian

“I would say the trend has already happened...that we are in a buyers market. I could also recommend to first time home buyers [that] if they're looking, now is a great time to get into the market.”

One of the red flags in the national housing crisis has been a 2% drop in the value of a typical home, that statistic carved out of December's economic statistics. via KPAX

“It can all turn around so quickly.”

The last week has been dry and warm, but western Montana is still having a decent winter for snow, particularly in the mountains. via Independent Record

“The environmental risk threatening the Flathead is just much too high”

A proposed British Columbia natural-gas project that raised environmental alarms in Montana is being dropped. via Daily Inter Lake

“We haven't shut down any campsites or don't anticipate that in the near future”

Belt tightening is never a bad idea, especially when it comes to government spending. via Great Falls Tribune