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WASHINGTON ¬– As directed by Congress, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will adjust the fee it charges to process oil and gas drilling permits on public and Indian lands for inflation, effective October 1, 2019. That adjustment will increase the fee by $180, to $10,230. The non-refundable processing fee is collected when an oil and gas operator submits a drilling permit (called an Application for Permit to Drill or APD), and is required whether or not a particular permit is subsequently approved. Congress established the fee and directed th...
State and local public health officials are reminding Montanans about ways to stay healthy when preparing and consuming food. So far in 2019, there have been 25 gastrointestinal illness outbreaks reported in Montana in numerous counties. Eighteen of these were caused or suspected by norovirus. A small Salmonella outbreak occurred in Missoula county earlier this year as well, although a source could never be determined. In 2018, there were 30 Montanans sickened by multi-state foodborne disease outbreaks. There were an additional three outbreaks...
gain for thousands of Montanans, fall, just before the opening of Big Game Hunting Season. With that said I’d like to urge all of the hunters out in the field to use some common courtesies this year, and every year. What courtesies am I referring to? The biggest one to tackle, which in my opinion is the age-old battle between Hunter and Landowner. As hunters, we need to be diligent in some simple tasks to ease this battle, because we are losing it. This is not blaming landowners, as their issues with hunters are well deserved, so it is our resp...