In 1908 the U.S. government seized some 18,000 acres of land from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to create the National Bison Range in the heart of their reservation in the mountain-ringed Mission Valley of western Montana.
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Climate Change Ushers In New Age of Extreme Rocky Mountain Wildfires, Study Says
High-elevation forests in Colorado and southern Wyoming are experiencing bigger wildfires than at any point in the last 2,000 years, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ancient Air Bubbles Speak to a Much Warmer Antarctica During the Ice-Age Than Once Believed
Twenty thousand-year-old air bubbles have revealed that Antarctic temperatures during the last ice age were markedly different than what the leading science once suggested.
Icebergs Drifting from Canada to Southern Florida
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution & United States Geological Survey data shows how icebergs drifted more than 5,000km during the last glaciation
Bacteria Used to Clean Diesel-Polluted Soil in Greenland
Diesel-polluted soil from now defunct military outposts in Greenland can be remediated using naturally occurring soil bacteria according to an extensive five-year experiment in Mestersvig, East Greenland, to which the University of Copenhagen has contributed.
Baltic Herring Larvae Appear Earlier and Grow Faster Due to Climate Change
Conditions during herring spawning may have cascading effects on the whole Baltic ecosystem.


