Welcome back to the Bozeman Build, thanks for opening the 84th edition! Today we will cover pheasant season, Great Falls nursing facility opens, night sky webcam, Montana Energy & Critical Materials, Wyoming data center breaks ground, new head of Osha, Nobel Peace Prize, and much more.

Sincerely,

Daniel Z

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Montana Trade Pulse

October 06, 2025 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the use of narrative nutrient water quality standards for Montana’s wadable streams and select large river segments. (DEQ MT)

October 6, 2025 BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Navajo tribe-owned company bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana on Monday in the biggest U.S. coal sale in more than a decade. (AP News)

Oct 7, 2025 Pheasant season opens on Saturday, Oct. 11, and FWP is busy with a second round of pheasant releases at several sites across the state. This is the fourth year of the annual pheasant release program. In 2022, the Fish and Wildlife Commission approved the release of up to 50,000 pheasants annually on FWP WMAs through 2026. In 2021, the Legislature authorized spending up to $1 million each year for the program. (FWP)

October 8, 2025 One new law, the Financial Freedom and Innovation Act, took effect in October, paving the way for companies that issue network tokens to do business in Montana, and ensuring the State Auditor’s office has authority to regulate the burgeoning industry and prosecute bad actors. (Daily Montanan)

October 8, 2025 Members of the Montana State University and Great Falls communities celebrate the grand opening of the Mark and Robyn Jones College of Nursing facility Monday, Oct. 6, 2025 in Great Falls, Mont. (MSU News)

October 9, 2025 Kurt Alme was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana, following a bitter, partisan fight in Washington, D.C. Alme is the former head of the Montana Department of Revenue and was also in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Montana between 2003 and 2010. A Great Falls native, Alme grew up in Dillon, Victor and Helena, graduating from Miles City. He holds degrees from the University of Colorado and Harvard University. (Daily Montanan)

October 9, 2025 DNRC Missoula Unit Conducts Planned Prescribed Burn near Kamas Point

October 10, 2025 Montana’s angling adds nearly $1 billion to economy (Daily Montanan)

Oct 10, 2025 Helicopter crew maneuvers replacement bridge from East Rosebud Lake into canyon near Rimrock Lake (KTVQ)

Oct 11, 2025 Montana’s electricity demand projections have doubled in just two years, and now federal and state leaders are gathering Thursday, October 16, to address how to meet this unprecedented growth that could reshape the state’s energy landscape. (Western MT)

Montana Department of AG

From AGR MT last week

• 10/7/2025 Montana Wheat & Barley Committee Fall Board Meeting Notice

• 10/7/2025 Proposals Sought for Potato Research & Market Development Program

• 10/9/2025 Growth Through Agriculture Grant & Loan Program Requesting Proposals

MDT News

From mdtnews.mt.gov/news/ last week

• Additional barrier rail to be installed on I-15 near Wolf Creek

• Proposed resurfacing on US 2 northwest of Glasgow

• Work on I-15 Helena North project is complete

• Proposed chip seal for S 248 west of Scobey

• Work in Anaconda completed for 2025; Work in Deer Lodge ongoing

• Pursuant to House Bill 940 (2025), MDT propose adopting rules to address camping and removal and storage of personal property in the right-of-way of state highways.

Night Sky Cam

Every night the Night Sky Cam takes images every few minutes and merges them into a video. If you can't stay awake to watch the night sky these videos will give you a good idea what Glacier's dark nights have to offer. (Glacier Webcam)

Montana Motorcycles

Even though you can only ride half the year, Montana apparently has the highest motorcycle ownership rate in the US.

Montana Energy & Critical Materials Summit by Montana Tech

Incredibly impressed with the panel that was put together for the 2025 Montana Energy & Critical Materials Summit hosted by Montana Tech. The high achieving talent that is born from Montana Tech along with the topics discussed at the various panels was impressive. Overall, this State and private parties are doing terrific work to push the ball forward in our State. Here’s a few take homes from the summit:

• Colstrip is the 2nd largest coal reserve West of the Mississippi

• NWE supplies 75% of the State

• ~31 years remaining in mine life remaining for Montana Resources Continental Mine in Butte. As they dig deeper the ore is harder and less rich.

• “We need to find a way to get paid more in the US to produce and bring stability to the US marketplace” US Producers are susceptible to large price swings due to Russian and Chinese Mineral Manipulation.

• 80% of nations do not have secure energy - Switch Energy

• China intends to build 150 new nuclear reactors between 2020 and 2035, with 27 currently under construction and the average construction timeline for each reactor about seven years, far faster than for most other nations.

• We are seeing an interest increase in secondary recovery projects in the US (mining of tailings)

• In the US we need to figure out full circle supply mineral processing capabilities, we offshore most of this, we are also very far behind on reserves needed for a handful of refined minerals

• US Army is preparing for the Davidson Window

• Here’s a map of Montanas Federal National Priority List (NPL) (DEQ Superfund)

• Here’s a map of U.S. Electric Power Transmission Lines (Archive) - Overview (ARC GIS)

Bozeman Trade Pulse

October 8, 2025 Big Sky Resort, Spanish Peaks approved to make snow with ‘highly treated’ wastewater. (Explore Big Sky)

October 9, 2025 Montana State experts offer way to assess and track soil health (MSU News)

October 9, 2025 Wednesday, Oct. 8, Bozeman realtor Jeremy Seglem hosted a panel discussion titled “Bozeman on the Brink” to address growing public concern around housing affordability, water rights and the controversial WARD initiative ahead of the Nov. 4 municipal election. (Explore Big Sky)

Oct 10, 2025 Bozeman airport sees record passenger surge, prompts terminal expansion. The airport expansion will add five new gates, more restaurants and three full-service baggage claims by 2027 (KBZK)

Northern Rockies Misc

October 07, 2025 $1.2 Billion Data Center Breaks Ground In Cheyenne, CEO Stresses Low Water Impact. The facility will generate around $250 million in tax revenue for Cheyenne and Wyoming during its first 15 years of operation, according to figures from Related. The 115-acre data center campus will serve CoreWeave as its first tenant, a heavy hitter in both cloud computing and Artificial Intelligence sectors. (Cowboy State Daily)

October 8, 2025 “Angry August”: Jackson Hole, Wyoming Debates Lodging Tax As Residents Say Crowds Are Annoying (Cowboy State Daily)

October 8, 2025 Forest Service approves Cabinet Mountains mine exploration giving the final green light to Hecla Mining Company for the Libby Exploration Project. This enables Hecla to begin surveying the silver and copper ore in an old mine shaft 20 miles south of Libby. (MTPR)

Oct. 8, 2025 DOE cancels $7.56B in energy projects, largely in blue states. The decision freezes funding for 223 projects in 108 Democratic and 28 Republican House districts, according to a news release. (Construction Dive)

October 08, 2025 The U.S. dairy industry is in the midst of a record-breaking boom — fueled by premium beef-on-dairy calves, historic investments in processing plants and surging demand for protein both at home and abroad. (Agweb)

Oct. 8, 2025 David Keeling confirmed as new head of OSHA. The former Amazon and UPS safety executive takes on the role as the agency is expected to advance a heat safety regulation. (Construction Dive)

Oct. 10, 2025 Tempe, Arizona-based semiconductor firm Amkor broke ground on a massive, $7 billion outsourced semiconductor advanced packaging and test campus in Peoria, Arizona, according to a Monday news release. (Construction Dive)

Nobel Prize 2025

October 10, 2025 Nobel Peace Prizes announced (Nobel Prize)

Physics - John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit

Chemistry - Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi for the development of metal-organic frameworks

Medicine - Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Shimon Sakaguchi fortheir discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance

Thank you for reading,

Daniel Zavadil

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