WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following statement by Administrator Andrew Wheeler on the use of M-44 devices to control wild animals that prey on livestock and other animals: "I am announcing a withdrawal of EPA's interim registration review decision on sodium cyanide, the compound used in M-44 devices to control wild predators. This issue warrants further analysis and additional discussions by EPA with the registrants of this predacide. USDA is the prima  more

HELENA, Montana, Aug. 15 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * - EPA partners with the state to protect and restore watersheds, streams and groundwater * * * The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $1,041,000 to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (MTDEQ) to help protect human health and the environment through a Nonpoint Source Program (NPS) Clean Water Act Section 319 grant. This grant is given to states to implement   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $75,000 cooperative agreement to the Hopa Mountain of Bozeman, Montana, for providing American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian youth organizations with a place-based cultural experience in their ancestral homelands that are now national park units. The agency description of the grant states: "Project Goals are to introduce native youth to careers in the NPS that all  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Aug. 16 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines, a district bank in the Federal Home Loan Bank System, issued the following news: The Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines (the Bank) is pleased to announce that Joe Kesler was recently re-elected as a director to the Bank's board. Mr. Kesler will serve as the Montana member director on the Bank's board for a four-year term commencing January 1, 2020. Mr. Kesler is the incumbent Montana member director, with his current term   more

BILLINGS, Montana, Aug. 13 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, Kurt G. Alme, issued the following news release: The former board treasurer of the Montana Native Women's Coalition was arraigned today on charges in a 10-count indictment accusing her, along with the Coalition's ex-chairwoman, of stealing federal grant funds to make unapproved trips to Las Vegas and to receive other unauthorized benefits, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said. Barbara Mary Daychief, 43, of Browning, pleaded n  more

HELENA, Montana, Aug. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Montana Field Office issued the following news release: Based on August 1 conditions, oat production in Montana is forecast at 1.41 million bushels, according to the August 1 Agricultural Yield Survey conducted by the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. This forecast is up 18 percent from the July 1 forecast and up 43 percent from the 2018  more