This weekly column features news stories and event announcements from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. We also mention companies located in the American Redoubt region that are of interest to preppers and survivalists. Today, news of avalanche warnings in Idaho and Montana.
Region-Wide
It’s the mildest winter in 10 years, but will it stay that way?
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Greater Idaho Movement: Another bill surfaces in Oregon Legislature. The article begins:
“Will the Oregon Legislature gain ground this session on shifting the Oregon-Idaho border? In addition to a bill that will be floated by House District 60 Rep. Mark Owens, R-Harney County, to study the bigger picture of such details as state infrastructure, the Senate is considering a bill that would see Oregon and Idaho governments talking about it.
Senate Joint Memorial 7 was passed to the Senate Committee on Rules after it was introduced, had a first reading and was referred to the president’s desk on Jan. 13.
SJM7 urges Oregon and Idaho to start discussions due to 13 counties in eastern Oregon having approved related ballot measures — though it’s worth noting that some of those measures are only to talk about the issue, not to act on it.”
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BLM, Forest Service announce grazing fee prices.
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The border-spanning region dubbed the Crown of the Continent ecosystem.
Idaho
President Trump’s executive order halts Lava Ridge Wind Project in Idaho. Idaho Senator James Risch worked with President Trump’s Interior Secretary nominee, Doug Burgum, to draft that executive order. Hee is a pericope:
“President Donald Trump on Monday issued an executive order halting the development of the Lava Ridge Wind Project in Idaho.
Permitting for the Lava Ridge Wind Project began in 2019, and it has since become one of Idaho’s most debated topics among politicians, ranchers, environmentalists and the Japanese-American community.
The Bureau of Land Management issued a record of decision for the project in December, giving company Magic Valley Energy the greenlight to move forward with its construction. The project would have spanned 104,000 acres northeast of Twin Falls and included more than 200 turbines with a maximum height of 660 feet.
Trump’s executive order says the project is “contrary to the public interest and suffers from legal deficiencies,” and it revokes the rights of Magic Valley Energy to proceed with the project. It also instructs the U.S. secretary of the Interior to review the record of decision and conduct a new analysis of the different impacts of the Lava Ridge Wind Project.”
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Boise man sentenced for drug trafficking will spend 20 years to life behind bars.
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State Highway 21 closing Friday evening due to high avalanche risk.
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Mortar caused the evacuation of Idaho Falls Regional Airport earlier this month.
Montana
Dillon man who received Trump pardon says he did nothing wrong on Jan. 6, not done fighting.
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Bill requiring 10 commandments to be displayed in public schools advances.
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Flathead Avalanche Center issues special avalanche bulletin for northwest Montana.
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Advocates hold Montana State Capitol rally for “National School Choice Week”.
Central & Eastern Oregon
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Step inside this historic Oregon aquarium with sharks, seals and lumpsuckers.
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OSP reports a second Redmond resident has died following Highway 22 head-on crash in Linn County.
Central & Eastern Washington
Man suspected of killing 13-year-old in Hillyard extradited back to Spokane.
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Second man sentenced for deadly People’s Park attack in Spokane.
Wyoming
Senate kills bill to create separate mule, whitetail deer seasons.
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From the left-of-center WyoFile: Wyoming lawmakers bring two grizzly bills as future of federal protection grows murky.
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