Monthly Natural Resources Conservation Service SNOTEL site totals across Montana show January precipitation was below to near normal. As of February 1st, all major basins had below normal snowpack except the Lower Clark Fork, Kootenai and St. Mary’s River basins. In general, west of the continental divide snowpack was better than east of the d...
Beal Mountain Mine Still Costly To Montanans Despite Closure
The defunct Beal Mountain Mine near Anaconda closed over 20 years ago and a year later, Pegasus Gold Corporation went bankrupt leaving behind inadequate reclamation bonds at its various Montana mines, costing taxpayers over 100 million since. Pegasus did pay $6.2 million for the Beal Mountain cleanup which has so far cost nearly $25 million. T...