The Mountain West Conferences decision this week not to expand is expected to be a lasting one, commissioner Craig Thompson said Wednesday. Read Chadd Cripe’s Bronco Beat blogs Read Murph’s Turf blogs Read more about Boise State and the Mountain West Follow Boise State football news
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The council approved a contract for 1,000 for a radio system which would be compatible with the city of Birmingham and Jefferson County’s joint radio system.
Airman Jamie Burroughs, 22, was the passenger killed Saturday in a rollover crash on westbound Interstate 84 in Elmore County, according to a release from Mountain Home Air Force Base.
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A study in the journal Science challenges assumptions that climate change and rising temperatures would send vegetation to higher elevations. A rise in precipitation could be the cause.
Predictions that climate change will drive trees and plants uphill, potentially slashing their range to perilous levels, may be wrong, suggests a new study that found vegetation in California actually crept downhill during the 20th century.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Coal River mountaintop removal protest. Photos courtesy Uncommon Productions
“Explosive power the size of a Hiroshima bomb once a week,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described mountaintop coal mining at a West Virginia rally to stop Massey Coal from reducing The Last Mountain to ash. It’s from a scene in the documentary by filmmaker Bill Haney (Price of Sugar), at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival — one of only a few environmental docs playing the an…Read the full story on TreeHugger

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A 22-year-old airman assigned to the 366th Equipment Maintenance Squadron at Mountain Home Air Force Base was killed Saturday in a rollover crash on westbound Interstate 84 in Elmore County, according to a release from the base.
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CHESTERFIELD • It’s impossible to mistake the
big cat in the grainy black and white pictures — not with that
distinct patch of white hair at its mouth, the muscled jaw line,
bulging shoulders and slee
CARRABASSETT VALLEY – A 24-year-old Orono man was rescued on Sugarloaf Mountain just before midnight Wednesday after he skied out-of-bounds, according to a release from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
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Eagle Mountain’s business incubator is generating an
unprecedented surge in interest from businesses.
Environmental absolutists from Wilderness Watch are suing to force the U.S. Forest Service to tear down the newly rebuilt Green Mountain Lookout. The suit is unwelcome, unpopular, and stomps on Northwest history.
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