Articles with the Tag: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
POLSON — The title Miss Montana conjures up a glittering evening gown, a tiara and a satiny sash. Miss Montana USA Tahnee Peppenger certainly can hold her own in a sparkly dress, but she was equally at home at the Polson Shooters Association shooting range on Aug. 22. Peppenger, 27, is a Montana nat...
One major fire and several smaller ones were burning on the Flathead Reservation Monday, after thunderstorms and persistent high winds hit day after day in a weeklong barrage that put stress on local fire resources. Governor Steve Bullock declared a State of Emergency on Sunday. “Mont...
HELENA — On July 31, Governor Steve Bullock appointed Jasmine Courville-Brown of Ronan to the Flathead Basin Commission. Courville-Brown is a pesticide specialist for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The Flathead Basin Commission’s purpose is to protect the existing high quality of th...
News from the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation HELENA — After becoming state law on April 24, 2015, the first steps toward implementation of the water rights compact between the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the State of Montana and the United States are under way.&n...
RONAN — On Sunday, Aug. 2, people in Ronan were witnesses to something special and increasingly rare. As the annual Pioneer Days parade swung by the hospital and onto Main Street, just behind the retro police car came the horse-mounted Grand Marshal: Felicite Sapiye “Jim” McDonald, age 92, ...
RONAN – Six new fires were sparked by lightning on the Flathead Reservation on Friday, including three large ones near Ferry Basin and two smaller ones in the Mission Mountains. According to Division of Fire Prevention Specialist C.T. Camel, the Melton One Fire, near Melton Ranch in Hot Sp...
RONAN — Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Division of Fire and Ronan Volunteer Fire Department were on the scene of a fire in a wooded and residential area Thursday afternoon. Planes dropped retardant on the blaze in Pablo off Kennedy Drive that was reported around 2:30 p.m. ...
BOZEMAN — Adjudication of water claims in the Flathead Basin will not take place until after January 2017, per a July 27 order issued by Chief Water Judge Russ McElyea, though the state of Montana will begin examining some claims that have been filed in two local basins. The judge issued the stay to...
News from CSKT Tribal Wildlife Program FLATHEAD RESERVATION — Wildlife Biologists with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes began a project to restore trumpeter swans as a resident species on the Flathead Indian Reservation in the mid-1990s. Subsequent efforts resulted in the release of 249 c...
LAKE COUNTY – A strong thunderstorm sparked wildfires and caused power outages across Lake County Monday evening. Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Division of Fire Prevention Technician Devlin LaFrombois said four fires were reported Monday evening and one was reported Tuesday ...
