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☆ ‘Zombie Trout’ Unsettle Montana, Long a Fly-Fishing Mecca
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-12 | by ( Jim Robbins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“And we work very hard to give water back when times are tough. One study on a Colorado river found that salmonflies accounted for slightly more than half of the trout diet. They have receded or disappeared altogether on 500 miles of river in Montana. Another climate-related threat to Montana’s fly fishing is the appearance in some rivers of invasive small mouth bass, a warm water species that prey on trout and could decimate fisheries. State officials have proposed emergency regulations on the Bitterroot River, for example, that require anglers to kill and report any small mouth bass they catch.

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☆ A millennial couple lives debt-free in a house they built by hand in Montana. Now, they're teaching others how to do the same in workshops that cost less than $1,000.
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Daniel and Katherine Ray live debt-free in a 700-square-foot cob house that they built by hand. The millennial couple spent over two years constructing their cob house in the Bitterroot Valley in Victor, Montana — where they've been living since 2019. Daniel Ray/Spiritwood Natural Building"We realized that we just love doing it, so we started teaching people how to do it," Daniel said. Daniel Ray/Spiritwood Natural BuildingThe participants who attend the couple's workshops come from the area as well as far-flung states. AdvertisementAdvertisementThrough all their education efforts about building cob houses and living debt-free, there's just one point that they're really driving at.

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☆ A Montana couple spent $20,000 building a 2-bedroom house, and now they're debt-free. There's just one catch: The house is made of clay, sand, and straw.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-18 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Daniel Ray, the owner, estimates that they spent less than $20,000 on the entire construction. Daniel Ray/Spiritwood Natural BuildingBut it wasn't until a couple of years later that the couple finally had a chance to turn it into reality. They saw their first cob house as practice for the new space they had in mind. "We both had full-time jobs and then would also work about 40 hours a week on building the house," Ray said. It's also going to reduce the amount of effort that you have to put into building the house," Ray said.

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☆ A historic youth climate trial is happening in Montana. Here’s what to know
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Ella Nilsen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A landmark youth climate trial is playing out in Montana, as more than a dozen young plaintiffs aged 5 to 22 said they are already being hurt by climate change-fueled wildfires, drought, reduced snowpack and impacts to wildlife. It is the first youth climate case to make it to trial in the United States, even as several others are working their way through the court system. Still, the ruling could set an important legal precedent for upcoming youth climate cases in various stages. The Montana plaintiffs first filed their case three years ago, while the Juliana case was first filed in 2015. “I know that climate change is a global issue, but Montana needs to take responsibility for our part of that,” plaintiff Rikki Held, 22, testified.

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