Montana Outdoors: Upland bird hunting season opens Tuesday

Biologists point to bitter cold and rain in early June as a possible limiting factor for young birds across the southern tier of Montana.

How Tre Became America's Most Wanted Environmental "Terrorist"

On August 12, 2008, after a tumultuous seven-year investigation, Arrow was sentenced in Federal court to six-and-a-half years for lighting three cement haulers ablaze at the notorious Ross Island Sand and Gravel in Portland, Oregon, as well as firebombing two trucks and one front loader owned by Ray Schoppert Logging Company near the timber town of Estacada, Oregon. The acts were in protest of the Eagle Creek timber sale in Mt. Hood National Forest in the late 1990s.

Boucher says three things fueling opposition to health care overhaul - Kingsport Times-News Online

“Factor number three is there is a weariness on the part of the public on what I would call ‘bailout fatigue,’” Boucher said. “It started with the program last fall for the financial market and then the first phase of the auto industry (bailout) and the second phase for the auto industry. On top of that is the climate change legislation and the stimulus package. And now a debate about health care.”

Why we are all climate camp followers now - Times Online

The hopes and fears of those who may live to see significant climate change are evident in Alistair, a 16-year-old schoolkid from Glasgow whose dad dropped him off at the camp on the first day.

“In general, my school is middle-class, Catholic and slightly conservative,” he says. Would they come here? “Not a chance. They don’t care. They all laugh at me, even the teachers. Everyone calls me a communist. But the world is f***** and going downhill, and by the time everyone realises that it will be too late. So we need to do something now.”