WASHINGTON, July 1 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation announced that it expects to award up to 12 cooperative agreements for applied science projects to develop hydrologic information and water management tools and improve modeling and forecasting capabilities in Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Colorado, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Northern Mariana Islands, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, U.S. Vi  more

KALISPELL, Montana, July 3 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Flathead National Forest - issued the following news release: The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) yesterday awarded the winning bid for the Liger Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) Timber Sale, the latest effort in a growing state-federal partnership to increase management activities and restoration outcomes on federal lands in Montana. The Liger Sale is Montana's third fore  more

WASHINGTON, July 4 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $58,900 cooperative agreement to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for research to understand the consequences of fire regime changes at the forests of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho Montana and Wyoming; Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming; and Glacier National Park in Montana. The agency description of the grant states: "It will explore how these changes will affect futu  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation announced that it intends to award a $242,772 grant to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife for inspection stations to identify and prevent aquatic invasive species from entering local waterways. The agency description of the grant states: "Quagga/zebra mussel veliger (larvae) have been detected at Tiber and Canyon Ferry reservoirs in Eastern Montana. This detection puts these species closer to the Columb  more