BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-1 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Aaberg, S. and W. Tallbull 

1993. Northern Cheyenne Ethnobotany of the 

Tongue River Reservoir Area. Report for 

Morrison-Maierle Environmental, 

Helena, MT. 

ACHP 

1980. Treatment of Archeological Properties: 

A Handbook. American Cultural 

Heritage Program, Washington, D.C., 

1980. 

ACRCS 

2006 Class I Overview of Paleontological & 

Cultural Resources in Eastern Montana, 

September 2006. 

Admin report BIA-3 

1975. Status of Mineral Resource Information 

for the Northern Cheyenne Indian 

Reservation, Montana Administrative 

Report BIA-3. 

Admin report BIA-7 

1975. Status of Mineral Resource Information 

for the Crow Indian Reservation, 

Montana Administrative Report BIA-7. 

Advanced Resources International 

2002. Memorandum to Peter Lagiovanne, 

“CBM-Type Wells for the Powder River 

Basin” June 2002. 

Agnew, W. 

1983. Flora and fauna associated with prairie 

dog ecosystems. M.S. Thesis. Colorado 

State University, Fort Collins, CO. 

Agnew, W., D.W. Uresk, and R.M. Hansen 

1986. Flora and Fauna Associated with Prairie 

Dog Colonies and Adjacent Ungrazed 

Mixed-Grass Prairie in Western South 

Dakota. J. Range Manage. 39:135-139. 

ALL 

2001a. Soils Technical Report, Montana 

statewide oil and gas environmental 

impact statement and amendment of the 

Powder River and Billings resource 

management plans. Prepared for the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management, Miles City Field 

Office. ALL Consulting, Tulsa, OK. 

ALL 

2001b. Water Resources Technical Report, 

Montana statewide oil and gas 

environmental impact statement and 

amendment of the Powder River and 

Billings resource management plans. 

Prepared for the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 

Miles City Field Office. ALL 

Consulting, Tulsa, OK. 

ALL 

2006. Air Quality Model Technical Support 

Document for the Supplement to the 

Statewide Final Oil and Gas 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Amendment of the Powder River and 

Billings Resource Management Plans. 

Prepared for the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 

Miles City Field Office. ALL 

Consulting, Tulsa, OK. 

Allen, K.L., T. Weaver, and D. Flath 

1994. Small mammals in Northern Rocky 

Mountain ecosystems. Unpubl. report to 

Bureau of Land Management and United 

States Forest Service, August 31, 1994. 

Montana State University, Bozeman, 

MT. 

American Fisheries Society (AFS) 

2005. Montana Chapter of the American 

Fisheries Society, Fish Species of 

Special Concern website. 

http://www.fisheries.org/AFSMontana/S

SC.htm 

American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) 

1983. Checklist of North American birds, 

6th ed. American Ornithologists’ Union, 

Washington, D.C. 

Anderson, D.W. and J.O. Keith 

1980. “The human influence on seabird nesting 

success: Conservation implications.” 

Biological Conservation 18:65-80. 

AOU 

 See American Ornithologists’ Union. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-2 

Avian Power Line Interaction Committee (APLIC) 

2006. Suggested practices for avian protection on 

power lines: The state of the art in 2006. 

Edison Electric Institute and California 

Electric Commission, Washington, D.C. 

and Sacramento, CA. 207pp. 

Apple, L. 

2005 Raptor Inventory and Monitoring Report, 

Bureau of Land Management, Miles City 

Field Office. 

Applied Hydrology Associates 

2001. Cumulative Impacts of Coal Bed 

Methane Development on Water Quality 

in the Powder and Little Powder Rivers. 

August 16, 2001. 

Argonne National Laboratory 

2002. Air Quality Impact Assessment 

Technical Support Document, Montana 

Statewide EIS/RMP Amendment of the 

Powder River and Billings Resource 

Management Plans. Prepared for the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management, Montana State 

Office. 

ARI, Inc. 

2002. PRB Reservoir Performance Model, 

report by Advanced Resources 

International, Inc. for US DOE, May, 

2002. 

Armstrup, S. 

1978. Activities and habitat use of pronghorns 

on Montana-Wyoming coal lands. Proc. 

Bienn. Pronghorn Ant. Workshop 8:270-

306. 

Autenrieth, R.E. 

1981. Sage grouse management in Idaho. 

Wildl. Bull. 9. Idaho Dep. Fish and 

Game, Boise. 

Ayers and Westcot 

1985. Ayers, R.S., and D.S. Westcot, 1985 

Water Quality for Agriculture, FAO 

Paper 29, Rev.1.Rome. 

Barton and Crispin 

2003. Globally Significant Plants in 

Southeastern Big Horn and Southwestern 

Rosebud Counties, Montana. Montana 

Natural Heritage Program, Helena. 

Bartos, Timothy T. and Kathy Muller Ogle. 

2002. Water Quality and Environmental 

Isotopic Analyses of Ground-Water 

Samples Collected from the Wasatch and 

Fort Union Formations in Areas of 

Coalbed Methane Development – 

Implications to Recharge and GroundWater Flow, Eastern Powder River 

Basin, Wyoming. Wyoming State 

Engineer’s Office and the Bureau of 

Land Management. Water-Resources 

Investigations Report 02-4045. 

Bauder, J. 

2001. Final Report. Recommended In-Stream 

Standards, Thresholds, and Criteria for 

Irrigation or Water Spreading to Soils of 

Alluvial Channels, Ephemeral Streams, 

Floodplains, and Potentially Irrigable 

Parcels of Land Within the Boundaries 

of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. 

Bauder, J.W. 

1998. Salt problems common in Montana soils. 

MSU Extension Publication Newsletter. 

Bozeman, MT. 

Bauder, J.W. 

1999. Coal Bed Methane Gas and Montana 

Water Quality. Unpublished document. 

Extension Soil and Water Quality 

Specialist, Montana State University. 

Bozeman, Montana. 

Bauder, J.W. 

2001. Recommended in-stream standards, 

thresholds and criteria for irrigation or 

water spreading to soils of alluvial 

channels, ephemeral streams, flood 

plains, and potentially irrigable parcels 

of land within the boundaries of the 

Northern Cheyenne Reservation. 

Montana State University. Bozeman, 

MT. 

Bauder, J.W. 

2001a. Letter to Montana DEQ c/o Davis & 

Cannon. Impacts on Swartz Ranch. 

June 25, 2001. 

Bauder, J.W. 

2002. Letter to Montana Board of 

Environmental Review. Revised Written 

Statement of Testimony Presented At 

September 26 Miles City Hearing. 

September 27, 2002. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-3 

Bayless, S. 

1967. Winter range use of pronghorn antelope 

in central Montana. M.S. thesis. Montana 

State University, Bozeman, MT. 

Beck, T.D.I. 

1977. Sage grouse flock characteristics and 

habitat selection during winter Journal of 

Wildlife Management. 41:18-26. 

Bell, M.C. 

1986. Fisheries handbook of engineering 

requirements and biological criteria. 

Fish Passage Development and 

Evaluation Program. U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers. 

Berry, J.D., and R.L. Eng 

1985. Interseasonal movements and fidelity to 

seasonal use areas by female Sage 

Grouse. J. Wildl. Manage. 49:237-240. 

Bevanger, K. 

1998. Biological and Conservation Aspects of 

Bird Mortality Caused by Electricity 

Power Lines: A Review. Biological 

Conservation. 86:67-76. 

BIA 

 See U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Billings Gazette 

2001. “Readers Weigh in on Coalbed 

Methane.” Billings Gazette. February 25, 

2001. 

Bjornn, T.C., and D.W. Reiser 

1991. “Habitat requirements of salmonids in 

streams.” In Influences of Forest and 

Rangeland Management on Salmonid 

Fishes and Their Habitats. William R. 

Meehan, ed., U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Forest Service. American 

Fisheries Society Special Publication 19. 

Bethesda, MD. 

Blend, J. 

2001. Personal communication between Jeff 

Blend/Montana Department of 

Environmental Quality and Tim 

Burkhardt/CH2M HILL, April 4, 2001. 

Blend, J. 

2001a. Comments on CBM Natural Gas 

Alliance Economic Report. September 

5, 2001. 

BLM 

See USDI Bureau of Land Management 

Board of Environmental Review of the State of 

Montana. 

2002a. Notice of Proposed Adoption of 

Amendment (Water Quality). 2002. 

Board of Environmental Review of the State of 

Montana. 

2002b. Amended Notice of Public Hearing on 

Proposed Adoption and Amendment 

(Water Quality). 2002. 

Board of Environmental Review of the State of 

Montana. 

2002c. Petition for Rule-Making to Set Numeric 

Water Quality Standards for Electrical 

Conductivity and Sodium Adsorption 

Ratio. August, 2002. 

Bobst 

2005a. 2004 Overview of Surface Water 

Monitoring Data for EC and SAR in the 

Tongue River Watershed. BLM Miles 

City Field Office, March 2005. 

Bobst 

2005b. 2004 Overview of Surface Water 

Monitoring Data for EC and SAR in the 

Powder River Watershed. BLM Miles 

City Field Office, September 2005. 

Bobst 

2006. Water Year 2005 Overview of Surface 

Water Monitoring Data for EC, SAR and 

Flow in the Tongue River Watershed. 

BLM Miles City Field Office. 

BOGC 

 See Montana Board of Oil and Gas 

Conservation. 

Bohman, R. 

2001. Personal communication between Jon W. 

Seekins and Mr. Bohman, MDEQ, 

August 2001. 

Bradbury, J. W., R. M. Gibson, C. E. McCarthy, 

and S.I. Vehrencamp 

1989. Dispersion of displaying male sage 

grouse. II. The role of female dispersion. 

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 

24:15-24. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-4 

Brady, N. C. 

1990. The nature and properties of soils. New 

York, McMillan Publishing Co., p. 47. 

Bramblett, R.G., T.R. Johnson, A.V. Zale, and D.G. 

Heggem 

2005. Development and evaluation of a fish 

assemblage index of biotic integrity for 

Northwestern Great Plains streams. 

Transactions of the American Fisheries 

Society. 134: 624-640. 

Braun, C.E., O.O. Oedekoven, and C.L. Aldridge 

 Oil and Gas Development in Western 

North America: Effects on Sagebrush 

Steppe Avifauna with Particular 

Emphasis on Sage-grouse. Available 

from URL http://www.uppergreen.org/

library/docs/NAmConf_Braun.pdf. 

Brink, et al. 

2004. Tracking CBM Infiltration Pond Impacts 

Upon Groundwater Using Strontium 

Isotopes, CBNG Research Conference, 

Univ. of Wyoming, August 2004. 

Brittangham, M.C. and S.A. Temple 

1983. “Have cowbirds caused forest songbirds 

to decline?” Bioscience, 33:31-35. 

Bruns, E.H. 

1977. “Winger behavior of pronghorns in 

relation to habitat.” Journal of Wildlife 

Management. 41:560-571. 

Busack, S.D. and R.B. Bury 

1974. “Some effects of off-road vehicles and 

sheep grazing on lizard populations in 

the Mojave Desert.” Biological 

Conservation. 6(3):179-83. 

Calvert, W.R. 

1912a. The Livingston and Trail Creek Coal 

Fields, Park, Gallatin, and Sweetgrass 

Counties, Montana. In Contributions to 

Economic Geology 1910. U.S. 

Geological Survey Bulletin 471. 

Calvert, W.R. 

1912b. The Electric Coal Field, Park County, 

Montana. In Contributions to Economic 

Geology 1910. U.S. Geological Survey 

Bulletin 471. 

Campbell, T. M., III, and T. W. Clark 

1981. Colony characteristics and vertebrate 

associations of white-tailed and blacktailed prairie dogs in Wyoming. Amer. 

Midl. Nat. 105:269-276. 

Campen, E. and J. R. Gruber 

1991. Coal and Coalbed Methane Resources of 

Montana, Rocky Mountain Association 

of Geologists. 

Campen, B. 

1990. Exploring the coalbeds of Montana. 

Western Oil World. Pp. 24-26. 

Carlson, J.C. and S.V. Cooper 

2003. Plant and Animal resources and 

Ecological Condition of the Forks Ranch 

Unit of the Padlock Ranch, Big Horn 

County, Montana and Sheridan County, 

Wyoming. Report to the Padlock Ranch 

and Montana BLM. Montana Natural 

Heritage Program, Helena. 

Case, J.C., T. V. Edgar, and R. H. DeBruin 

2000. “Subsidence potential related to water 

withdrawal in the Powder River Basin,” 

Wyoming State Geological Survey, 

Wyoming Geonotes (Number 68, 

December). 

CBMC Coalition 

2001. Burger Draw Study - Wyoming. June 6, 

2001. 

Center for Climate Strategies (CCS), 

2007. Montana Greenhouse Gas Inventory and 

Reference Case Projections 1990-2020; 

Prepared for the Montana Department of 

Environmental Quality. 

(http://www.deq.mt.gov/ClimateChange/

Data/GreenhouseGasInventory.pdf) 

CDM, Inc. 

2004. Technical Review and Analysis of 

Kuipers’/NPRC Documents Related to 

the Management of CBNG Produced 

Water in the Powder River Basin. 

Prepared for the Petroleum Association 

of Wyoming. 

Chamberlin, T.W., R.D. Harr, and F.H. Everest 

1991. “Timber harvesting, silviculture, and 

watershed processes.” In Influences of 

Forest and Rangeland Management on 

Salmonid Fishes and Their Habitats.

William R. Meehan, ed., U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service. American Fisheries Society 

Special Publication 19. Bethesda, MD. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-5 

Chappell, K. 

2001. Personal communication between 

K. Chappell/ Agriculture and Grazing 

Bureau Chief, Department of Natural 

Resources and Conservation, Helena, 

MT with David Epperly/ALL 

Consulting. April 23, 2001. 

Choate, Raoul, C.A. Johnson, and J.P. McCord 

1984. Geologic overview, coal deposits, and 

potential for methane recovery from 

coalbeds—Powder River Basin. 

Rightmire, C.T., Eddy, G.E., and Kirr, 

J.N., eds., Coalbed methane resources of 

the United States: AAPG Studies in 

Geology. Ser. 17. Pp. 335-351. 

Clark, T. W., T. M. Campbell III, D. G. Socha, and 

D. E. Casey 

1982. “Prairie dog colony attributes and 

associated species.” Great Basin Nat. 

42:572-582. 

Clark, T. W., A. H. Harvey, R. D. Dorn, D. L. 

Genter, and C. Groves, eds. 

1989. Rare, sensitive, and threatened species of 

the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. 

Northern Rockies Conservation 

Cooperative, Montana Natural Heritage 

Program, The Nature Conservancy, and 

Mountain West Environmental Services. 

Clark, W.F., Hemler, T. 

1992. Completing, equipping, and operating 

Fruitland Formation coal-bed methane 

wells in the San Juan Basin, New 

Mexico and Colorado. In Society of 

Petroleum Engineers. Coalbed methane. 

Soc. Petro. Eng., Richardson, TX. SPE 

Reprint Ser. No. 35. pp. 112-119. 

CMS 

2000. Presentation to the Coal Bed Methane 

Coordination Group on October 18, 

2000. 

Coal Bed Methane Coordination Group 

2000. CMS Energy Presentation, Coal Bed 

Methane Coordination Group, 

October 18, 2000. 

Coefield, J. 

2005. Personal communication between John 

Coefield/MDEQ and Jon Seekins/ALL 

Consulting. November 18, 2005. 

Cole, E.K., M.D. Pope, and R.G. Anthony 

1997. “Effects of road management on 

movement and survival of Roosevelt 

elk.” Journal of Wildlife Management. 

61:1115-1126.

Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission 

2000. Summary Report of Bradenhead Testing, 

Gas Well Remediation, and Ground 

water Investigation, San Juan Basin, La 

Plata County, Colorado. COGCC 

unpublished report, May 26, 2000. 

Confluence Consulting 

2003. Biological, physical, and chemical 

integrity of selected streams in the 

Tongue River basin. Report prepared for 

the U.S. Department of the Interior, 

Bureau of Land Management, Miles 

City, MT. 

Confluence Consulting 

2004. Powder River Biological Survey and 

Implications for Coalbed Methane 

Development. Report prepared for the 

Powder River Basin Resource Council, 

Sheridan, WY. 

Confluence Consulting 

2005. Biological integrity of streams in the 

Tongue River basin and Rosebud Creek 

and implications for coalbed natural gas 

development. Report prepared for the 

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau 

of Land Management, Miles City, MT. 

Connelly, J. W., and C. E. Braun 

1997. Long-term changes in sage grouse 

Centrocercus urophasianus populations 

in western North America. Wildlife 

Biology. 3/4:123-128. 

Connelly, J. W., H. W. Browers, and R. J. Gates 

1988. Seasonal movements of sage grouse in 

southeastern Idaho. Journal of Wildlife 

Management. 52:116-122. 

Connelly, J. W., and O.D. Markham 

1983. Movements and radionuclide 

concentrations of sage grouse in 

southeastern Idaho. Journal of Wildlife 

Management. 47:169-177. 

Connelly, J.W., Reese, K.P., Garton, E.O., & 

Commons-Kemmer, M.L. 

2003. Response of greater sage-grouse 

Centrocercus urophasianus populations 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-6 

to different levels of exploitation in 

Idaho, USA. Wildl. Biol. 9:255-260. 

Connelly, J. W., M. A. Schroeder, A. R. Sands, and 

C. E. Braun 

2000. Guidelines to manage sage grouse 

populations and their habitats. Wildlife 

Society Bulletin. 28(4)967-985. 

Connelly, J. W., K.P. Reese, and M.A. Schroeder 

2003. Monitoring of Greater Sage-grouse 

Habitats and Populations. Contribution 

No. 979 of the College of Natural 

Resources Experiment Station, College 

of Natural Resources, University of 

Idaho, Moscow. 

Coplen, T. B. 

1994. “Reporting of stable hydrogen, carbon, 

and oxygen isotopic abundances.” Pure 

Appl. Chem. 66, 273-276. 

Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) 

1997. Draft Guidance Regarding Consideration 

of Global Climate Change in 

Environmental Documents Prepared 

Pursuant to the National Environmental 

Policy Act. 

Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) 

2002. CEQ NEPAnet: Guidance for preparing 

documents under the National 

Environmental Policy Act. 

http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/ nepa/ nepanet.htm. 

Executive Office of the President, 

Washington, D.C. September 10, 2002. 

Coyner, J. 

1989. Status check on reported historic 

populations of Spiranthes diluvialis. 

Memorandum, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Salt Lake City, UT. 

Coyner, J. 

1990. Report for population study Spiranthes 

diluvialis. Unpublished report. Bureau of 

Land Management and Red Butte 

Gardens, University of Utah, Salt Lake 

City, UT. 

Crockett, F. 

2001. DOI, BLM, RMG Casper, WY, personal 

communication between Fred Crockett, 

Casper BLM, and Charles Laakso, 

MCFD, February 2001. 

Crockett, F. and J. Meyer 

2001. Update and revision of interim drainage 

report on coalbed methane development 

and drainage of federal land in the South 

Gillette area, Campbell and Converse 

counties, Wyoming. T. 40-50 N., R 70-

75 W. BLM Wyoming State OfficeReservoir Management Group. Casper 

Field Office. Casper, WY. 

Crow Tribe of Indians, Crow Conservation 

District, Big Horn Conservation District, 

and USDA Natural Resources 

Conservation Service 

1997. Crow Tribe and Big Horn County 

Resource Assessment. 

Crow Tribe of Indians 

1999. Constitution and Bylaws of the Crow 

Tribe of Indians, Crow Indian 

Reservation, Crow Agency, Montana. 

Crow Tribe of Indians 

2001. Application to EPA for Water Quality 

Standards Program, Draft, Crow Indian 

Reservation, Crow Agency, Montana. 

July 15, 2001. 

Crow Tribe of Indians 

2002. Crow Indian Reservation: Natural, 

Socio-Economic, and Cultural Resources 

Assessment and Conditions Report. April 

2002. Crow Agency, MT. 

Dalke, P. D., D. B. Pyrah, D. C. Stanton, J. E. 

Crawford, and E. F. Schlatterer. 

1963. Ecology, productivity, and management 

of sage grouse in Idaho. Journal of 

Wildlife Management. 27:810-841. 

Darrow, G. 

1954. The Bearcreek coal field. Richards, 

P.W., ed., Pryor Mountains-Northern 

Bighorn Basin, Montana Fifth Annual 

Field Conference: Billings Geological 

Society Guidebook, September 9-11, 

1954. Pp. 130-132. 

Davis, L. 

1995. A handbook of constructed : a guide to 

creating wetlands for: agricultural waste, 

wastewater, domestic wastewater, coal 

mine drainage, stormwater in the MidAtlantic Region. Vol. 1. General 

considerations. U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, Wash., D.C. 46 p. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-7 

Deaver, S., and B. Tallbull 

1991. Potential Cultural Effects to the Northern 

Cheyenne from the Proposed Tongue 

River Railroad Extension. Ethnoscience 

for Interstate Commerce Commission, 

Billings, MT. 

Dechant, J. A., M. L. Sondreal, D. H. Johnson, L. 

K. Igl, C. M. Goldade, M. P. Nenneman, 

and B. R. Euliss 

1998. Effects of management practices on 

grassland birds: Grasshopper Sparrow. 

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research 

Center, Jamestown, ND. 

(http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/) 

Department of Energy (DOE) 

2008. FY 2009 Congressional Budget, 

Biological and Environmental Research; 

Funding Profile by Subprogram 

(http://www.science.doe.gov/obp/FY_09

_Budget/BER.pdf) 

Department of the Interior (DOI), 

2007. Letter to the Comptroller General, US 

Government Accountability Office in 

regards to GAO Report “Climate 

Change: Agencies Should Develop 

Guidance for Addressing the Effects on 

Federal Land and Water Resources”, 

GAO-07-863 Climate Change, pgs 174-

178. 

DeWalle, D.R.; Galeone, D.G. 

1990. One-time dormant season application of 

gas well brine on forest land. J. Environ. 

Qual. 19:288-295. 

DeLapp. W. 

2006. Personal communication between 

William DeLapp/J. M. Huber Corp. and 

Bruce Langhus/ALL Consulting. May, 

2006. 

Doherty, K. E., D. E. Naugle, B. L. Walker and J. 

M. Graham. 

2007. Greater sage-grouse winter habitat 

selection and energy development. Preprint In-press copy. Journal of Wildlife 

Management 00(0):000-000 20XX. 

Dwight’s Well Data 

2001. Petroleum Information/Dwights LLC, 

www.pidwights.com. The site may 

contain the copyrighted property of HIS 

Energy Group, © 2001, HIS Energy 

Group, All Rights Reserved. 

Egoscur, H.J. 

1979. Vulpes velox. Mammalian Species 

122:1-5. 

Ellis, M.S., G.D. Stricker, R.M. Flores, and L.R. 

Bader. 

1998. Sulfur and ash in Paleocene WyodakAnderson coal in the Powder River 

Basin, Wyoming and Montana, Proc. 

23rd Internl. Tech. Conf. on Coal 

Utilization, March 1998. 

Ellis, M.S., G.L. Gunther, A.M. Ochs, S.B. Roberts, 

E.M. Wilde, J.H. Schuenemeyer, H.C. 

Power, G.D. Stricker, and D. Blake 

1999a. Coal resources, Powder River Basin. In: 

U.S. Geological Survey Professional 

Paper 1625-A. 

Ellis, M.S., G.L. Gunther, R.M. Flores, A.M. Ochs, 

G.D. Stricker, S.B. Roberts, T.T. Taber, 

L.R. Bader, and J.H. Schuenemeyer. 

1999b. Preliminary report on coal resources of 

the Wyodak-Anderson coal zone, 

Powder River Basin, Wyoming and 

Montana, U.S. Geological Survey OpenFile Report 98-789A. 

Elser, A. A., Mark W. Gorges, and Lani M. Morris 

1980. Distribution of fishes in southeastern 

Montana. Cooperatively compiled by 

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife 

and Parks and the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management. 

Revised edition, October 1980. 

Energy Information Administration (EIA), 

2007. Emissions of Greenhouse Gases Report 

(http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/1605/ggrpt/

index.html) 

Energy Information Administration (EIA), 

2008. U.S. Natural Gas Gross Withdrawals 

(MMcf) 

(http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/ng/hist/n90

10us2A.htm)

Energy Laboratories, Inc. 

2001. Whole Effluent Toxicity Testing Results 

of Tongue River Produced Water. 

Billings, Montana. March 2001. 

Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), 

2003. EPCA Phase I Inventory, Scientific 

Inventory of Onshore Federal Lands’ Oil 

and Gas Resources and Reserves and the 

Extent and Nature of Restrictions or 

Impediments to their Development, 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-8 

Prepared by the U.S. Departments of the 

Interior, Agriculture, and Energy, 

January 2003 

Eng, R. L. and P. Schladweiler 

1972. “Sage grouse winter movements and 

habitat use in Central Montana.” Journal 

of Wildlife Management. 36(1):141-146. 

ENSR 

2005a. Task 1A Report for the Powder River 

Basin Coal Review Current Air Quality 

Conditions. Prepared for the BLM 

Casper Field Office and Wyoming State 

Office. July 2005. 

ENSR 

2005b. Task 3A Report for the Powder River 

Basin Coal Review Cumulative Air 

Quality Effects Prepared for the BLM 

Casper Field Office and Wyoming State 

Office.

Environmental News Network. 

2001. Coalbed methane boom in Wyoming’s 

Powder River Basin. ENN, Thursday, 

Oct. 18, 2001. 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 

2006. Global Anthropogenic Non-CO2 

Greenhouse Gas Emissions: 1990-2020 

(www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/sta

teofknowlage.html). 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 

2007a. Climate Change – Science 

(www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/sta

teofknowlage.html) 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 

2007b. Natural Gas STAR Program - Basic 

Information, 

(http://www.epa.gov/gasstar/overview.ht

m). 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 

2008a. Knowledge Building Series Climate 

Change 101 (USEPA: 908-F-08-003) 

(www.epa.gov/region8/climatechange/Cl

imateChange101FINAL.pdf) 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 

2008b. U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Reports; 

Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas 

Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2006 

(http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emis

sions/usinventoryreport.html

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 

2008c. Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies 

Calculator 

(http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/energy

-resources/c/ca;calculator.html)

Estes, J. R., R. J. Tyrl, and J. N. Brunken, eds. 

1982. Grasses and grasslands: systematics and 

ecology. University of Oklahoma Press, 

Norman, OK. 312 pp. 

Eustace, C. 

2001. Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, 

personal communication with Chuck 

Blair, September 2001. 

Evans, D. L. 

1982. Status reports on twelve raptors. U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Special Scientific 

Report No. 238. 

Federal Register 

1983. Volume 48, Number 41, Department of 

Interior Part III. National Registry of 

Natural Landmarks, National Park 

Service, Public Notice. pp-8682-8704. 

March 1, 1983. 

Federal Register 

2001. Volume 66, Number 2, Effluent 

Limitations Guidelines, Pretreatment 

Standards, and New Source Performance 

Standards. January 3, 2001. 

Federal Register. 

2001a. Volume 66, Number 172, Notice of EPA 

Region 8, “Best Professional Judgment” 

(BPJ) Determination of Effluent 

Limitations that Represent Best 

Available Technology Economically 

Achievable (BAT) for Coalbed Methane 

(CBM) Activities; Announcement of a 

Meeting. September 5, 2001. 

Fernandez, C. 

2001. “The choice of nesting cliffs by golden 

eagles Aquila chrysaetos: the influence 

of accessibility and disturbance by 

humans.” Alauda. 61:105-110. 

Fetter, C.W. 

1994. Applied Hydrogeology, Third Edition. 

University of Wisconsin. Macmillan 

College Publishing Company. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-9 

Fidelity 

2001. Personal Communication with Mr. Bruce 

Williams of Fidelity Exploration and 

Production Company, Regarding coal 

dust suppression and the use of CBM 

produced water, August 2001. 

Fidelity 

2002. WYPDES Permit No. WY0046841, 

Youngs Creek Drainage. June, 2002. 

Fidelity 

2003. CX Field – 2002 Annual Groundwater 

Monitoring Report, Fidelity Exploration 

& Production Company. March 2003. 

Fidelity 

2004. CX Field – 2003 Annual Groundwater 

Monitoring Report, Fidelity Exploration 

& Production Company. March 2004. 

Fidelity 

2005a. CX Field – 2004 Annual Groundwater 

Monitoring Report, Fidelity Exploration 

& Production Company. March 2005. 

Fidelity 

2005b. Tongue River – Coal Creek Plan of 

Development Environmental 

Assessment, Fidelity Exploration & 

Production Company for the BLM Miles 

City Office. January 2005. 

Fidelity 

2006. CX Field – 2005 Annual Groundwater 

Monitoring Report, Fidelity Exploration 

& Production Company. March 2006. 

Fischer, R. A., A. D. Apa, W. L. Wakkinen, K. P. 

Reese, and J. W. Connelly 

1993. Nesting-area fidelity of sage grouse in 

southeastern Idaho. Condor 95:1038-

1041. 

Fischer, R. A. 

1994. The effects of prescribed fire on the 

ecology of migratory sage grouse in 

southeastern Idaho. 

Fisher, F. B., J. C. Winne, M. M. Thornton, T. P. 

Tady, Z. Ma, M. M. Hart, and R. L. 

Redmond 

1998. Montana land cover atlas. Unpublished 

report. Montana Cooperative Wildlife 

Research Unit, The University of 

Montana, Missoula, MT. 

Fix, Mark, Art Hayes, Jr., Roger Muggli and Dave 

Schwartz. 

2002a. Letter to Board of Environmental 

Review regarding Northern Plains 

Resource Council, Tongue River Water 

Users’ Association, Tongue and 

Yellowstone Irrigation and Buffalo 

Rapids Irrigation Project interest in 

establishing numeric water quality 

standards for electric conductivity and 

sodium adsorption ratio. November 29, 

2002. 

Fix, Mark, Art Hayes, Jr., Roger Muggli and Dave 

Schwartz. 

2002b. Letter to Board of Environmental 

Review regarding Northern Plains 

Resource Council, Tongue River Water 

Users’ Association, Tongue and 

Yellowstone Irrigation and Buffalo 

Rapids Irrigation Project disappointment 

in decision regarding water quality 

standards. December 19, 2002. 

Flath, D. L. 

1991. Species of special interest or concern 

(draft report). Montana Department of 

Fish, Wildlife and Parks. 

Flores, R.M. and L.R. Bader. 

1999. Fort Union coal in the Powder River 

Basin, Wyoming and Montana: a 

Synthesis, in USGS Prof. Paper 1625-A. 

Flores, R., G. Stricker, J. Meyer, T. Doll, P. 

Norton, R. Livingston, and M. Jennings 

2001. A Field Conference on Impacts of Coal 

Bed Methane Development in the 

Powder River Basin, Wyoming, USGS 

Open-File Report 01-126. 

Fort Belknap Indian Community 

2001. Fort Belknap Indian Community Web 

Page. http://www.mnisose.org/profiles/

ftbelnp.htm. <April 25, 2001>. 

Fox, Douglas G.; Bartuska, Ann M.; Byrne, James 

G; and others 

1989. A screening procedure to evaluate air 

pollution effects on Class I wilderness 

areas/ Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-168. Rocky 

Mountain Forest and Range Experiment 

Station. Fort Collins, CO. 

Free Indian News Web page 

2001. http://www.freeindiannews.com/

page1085.html, Crow Tribal 

Information. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-10 

Furniss, M.J., T.D. Roelofs, and C.S. Yee 

1991. “Road construction and maintenance.” In 

Influences of Forest and Rangeland 

Management on Salmonid Fishes and 

Their Habitats. William R. Meehan, ed., 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service. American Fisheries Society 

Special Publication 19. Bethesda, MD. 

FWS 

 See USDI, Fish and Wildlife Service. 

Fyfe, R.W. and R.R. Olendorff 

1976. Minimizing the dangers of nesting 

studies to raptors and other sensitive 

species. Canadian Wildlife Service, 

Information Canada. Catalogue No. 

CW69-1/23. Ottawa. 

Fuhlendorf, S.D., A.J.W. Woodward, D.M. Leslie, 

Jr., and J.S. Shackford 

2002. Multi-Scale Effects of Habitat Loss and 

Fragmentation on Lesser Prairie-Chicken 

Populations of the US Southern Great 

Plains. Landscape Ecology. 17:617-628. 

Gates, R.J. 

1983. Sage grouse, lagomorph and pronghorn 

use of a sagebrush-grassland burn site of 

the Idaho National Engineering 

Laboratory. M.S. Thesis, Montana State 

Univ., Bozeman, MT. 

Gelbard, JL. and J. Belnap 

2003. Roads as Conduits for Exotic Plant 

Invasions in a Semiarid Landscape. 

Conservation Biology. 17:420-432. 

Gibbs, J.P. 

1998. “Amphibian movements in response to 

forest edges, roads, and streambeds in 

southern New England.” Journal of 

Wildlife Management. 62(2):1998. 

Gill, R.B. 

1965. Distribution and abundance of a 

population of sage grouse in North Park, 

Colorado. M.S. Thesis, Colorado State 

Univ. Fort Collins, CO. 

Glass, G. B., R. W. Jones, and R. H. De Bruin 

1987. Investigation of the Potential for NearSurface Explosive Concentrations of 

Methane to Occur in the Rawhide 

Village Subdivision, Campbell County, 

Wyoming. Unpublished report. 

Wyoming State Geological Survey 

Report for the Wyoming Department of 

Environmental Quality. 

Goddard Institute for Space Studies 

2008. Temperature Change for Three Latitude 

Bands; 

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs/

Fig.B.lrg.gif 

Gooding, Emily K. 

2002. Evaluating the Potential Effect of 

Proposed Coalbed Methane Wastewater 

Standards on Riparian Vegetation in the 

Powder River and Tongue River Basins, 

Southeastern Montana. University of 

Montana, Department of Environmental 

Studies. December 3, 2002. 

Gray, I. 

1987. Reservoir Engineering in Coal Seams: 

Part 1 – The Physical Process of Gas 

Storage and Movement in Coal Seams, 

SPERE, pp. 28-34, February, 1987. 

Greystone Environmental Consultants, Inc. 

2004a. Raptor survey and inventory for Big 

Horn County, Montana. Prepared for the 

U.S.D.I. Bureau of Land Management, 

Miles City Field Office. September 2004. 

Greystone Environmental Consultants, Inc. 

2004b. Mountain plover habitat evaluation and 

survey; black-tailed prairie dog survey - 

Big Horn, Powder River, and Rosebud 

Counties, Montana. November 2004. 

GRI (Gas Research Institute) 

2000. Coalbed Methane Potential of the U.S. 

Rocky Mountain Region, 3 pp. 

http://www.gri.org/pub/content/nov/2000

1109/144821/gtfall2000-art01.htm. 

Groot Bruinderink, G.W.T.A. and E. Hazebroek 

1996. “Ungulate traffic collisions in Europe.” 

Conservation Biology. 10:1059-1067. 

Grover, K.E. and M.J. Thompson 

1986. “Factors influencing spring feeding site 

selection by elk in the Elkhorn 

Mountains, Montana.” Journal of 

Wildlife Management. 50:466-470. 

Gutzwiller, K.J. 

1991. Assessing recreational impacts on 

wildlife: The value and design of 

experiments. Transactions of the 56th 

North American Wildlife and Natural 

Resources Conference. 248-255. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-11 

Haas, L. 

2001. Personal communication between Laurie 

Haas, Resources Assistant/BLM Butte 

Field Office, and Dr. David 

Epperly/ALL Consulting, June 22, 2001. 

Hagen, C.A. 

2003. A demographic analysis of lesser prairiechicken in southwestern Kansas: 

survival, population viability, and habitat 

use. Ph.D. Dissertation, Kansas State 

University, Manhattan, KS. 

Hamlin, K. L. 

1978. Population ecology and habitat 

relationships of mule deer and whitetailed deer in the prairie agricultural 

habitats of eastern Montana, Montana 

Deer Studies. Montana Department of 

Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Project W-120-

R-10, Job Progress Report. 

Hanebury, Lou 

2008. USFWS Wildlife Biologist, Personal 

Communication with Kent Undlin BLM 

MCFO, Wildlife Biologist regarding 

Black-footer ferret release on Northern 

Cheyenne Reservation. 

Hanf, J. M., P. A. Schmidt, and E. B. Groshens. 

1994. Sage grouse in the high desert of central 

Oregon: results of a study, 1988-1993. 

U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management Series P-SG-01, 

Prineville, Oregon. 56 p. 

Hansen, J. 

2001. Personal communication via email 

between J. Hansen/Montana Department 

of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MFWP) and 

J. Ferguson/CH2M HILL. April 4, 2001. 

Hayden-Wing Associates 

2002. Fidelity Exploration & Production 

Company, Montana 2002 and 2003 

Drilling Area, Baseline Wildlife 

Inventory. 

Hayden-Wing Associates 

2003. Black-footed ferret survey results. 

Prepared for Fidelity Exploration & 

Production Company. 

Hayden-Wing Associates 

2004a. Fidelity Exploration & Production 

Company, Proposed Coal Creek POD, 

Big Horn County, Baseline Wildlife 

Inventory. 

Hayden-Wing Associates 

2004b. Black-footed ferret survey results for 

Fidelity Exploration & Production 

Company, Pond Creek POD and Dry 

Creek POD. 

Hayden-Wing Associates 

2005. Fidelity Exploration & Production 

Company, Coalbed Natural Gas 

Development Areas in Bighorn County, 

Montana, Wildlife Surveys – 2004. 

Hayden-Wing Associates 

2006. Fidelity Exploration & Production 

Company, Coalbed Natural Gas 

Development Areas in Bighorn County, 

Montana, Wildlife Surveys – 2005

Heffern, E. L. 

1999. Methane Seepage and Coal Fires. 

Unpublished Report for Wyodak CBM 

Project EIS. Prepared for BLM Buffalo 

Field Office, Buffalo, WY. 

Heffern, E. L., D. A. Coates, and C. W. Naeser 

1983. Distribution and age of clinker in the 

northern Powder River Basin, Montana. 

American Association of Petroleum 

Geologist Bulletin. V. 67. no. 8. 

Heidel B., C. Jean, and S. Crispin 

2002. Plant Species of Concern and Plant 

Associations of Powder River County, 

Montana. Report to the Bureau of Land 

Management. Montana Natural Heritage 

Program, Helena, Montana. 

Hendricks, P., and J. D. Reichel 

1996. Preliminary amphibian and reptile survey 

of the Ashland District, Custer National 

Forest: 1995. Montana Natural Heritage 

Program. Helena, MT. 

Herco-Hampton 

1989. Northern Cheyenne Coalbed Methane 

Project. Billings, MT. 

Hill, D. G., et al. 

2000. “Coalbed methane in the Rocky 

Mountain region: the old, the new, and 

the future.” In: Proceedings of the 

RMAG Conference on Coalbed Methane 

in the Rocky Mountains. June 20-21, 

2000. Denver, CO. 

HKM Associates 

1972. Inventory of Water Resources, Northern 

Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Phase I – 

Water Resource Base: Billings, Montana. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-12 

HKM Associates. 

1973. Report on Inventory of Water Resources, 

Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, 

Montana, Off-Stream Storage 

Supplement to Phase I—Water Resource 

Base: Billings, Montana. May 1973. 

HKM Associates 

1982. Shallow Ground Water Study, Northern 

Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana, 

Part I-Ground Water Basic Data, 

Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation: 

Billings, Montana. 

Hodson, W.G., R.H. Pearl, S.A. Druse. 

1973. Water resources of the Powder River 

Basin and adjacent areas, Northeastern 

Wyoming. USGS Hydrologic Invest. 

Atlas HA-A65. 

Hoffmann, R. S., and D. L. Pattie 

1968. A guide to Montana mammals: 

identification, habitat, distribution, and 

abundance. University of Montana, 

Missoula, MT. 

Holloran, M.J. and S.H. Anderson.

2004. Greater Sage-grouse population response 

to natural gas development in western 

Wyoming: Are regional populations 

affected by relatively localized 

disturbances? Transactions from the 70th 

N. Am. Wildl. and Nat. Res. Conf. 

Holloran, M.J.

2005. Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus 

urophasianus) Population Response to 

Natural Gas Development in Western 

Wyoming. University of Wyoming. 

December 2005. 

Holloran, M.J., R.C. Kaiser, and W. A. Hubert

2007. Population Response of Yearling Greater 

Sage-grouse to the Infrastructure of 

Natural Gas Fields in Southwestern 

Wyoming. Completion Report, U.S. 

Geological Survey, Laramie, WY.. 

Hopkins, R. B. 

1984. “Avian species associated with prairie 

woodland types.” In: Wooded draws: 

characteristics and values for the 

northern Great Plains. Daniel L. Noble 

and Robert R. Winokur, eds. Symposium 

proceedings, June 12 and 13, 1984. Great 

Plains Council Publication 111. South 

Dakota School of Mines and 

Technology, Rapid City, SD. 

Horpestad, A., D. Skaar, and H. Dawson 

2001. Water Quality Technical Report: Water 

Quality Impacts from Coal Bed Methane 

Development in the Powder River Basin, 

Wyoming and Montana, Montana DEQ, 

Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks, and 

EPA Region 8. 

Horpestad, A., D. Skaar, and H. Dawson 

2001a. Bicarbonate Toxicity to Aquatic Life. 

Montana DEQ, Montana Fish Wildlife 

and Parks, and EPA Region 8. December 

18, 2001. 

Houtcooper, W. C., D. J. Ode, J. A. Pearson, and 

G. M. Vandel III 

1985. “Rare animals and plants of South 

Dakota.” Prairie Naturalist.

17(3):143-165. 

Hupp, J.W., and C.E. Braun 

1989. Topographic distribution of sage grouse 

foraging in winter. Journal of Wildlife 

Management 53: 823-829. 

Hydrometrics, Incorporated 

An Economical Process to Treat 

Produced Water from Coal Bed Methane 

Deposits in the Powder River Basin. 

Ingelfinger, F.M. 

2001. The Effects of Natural Gas Development 

on Sagebrush Steppe Passerines in 

Sublette County, Wyoming. M.S. Thesis, 

Department of Zoology and Physiology, 

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. 

Ingles, L.G. 

1965. Mammals of the Pacific States. Stanford, 

CA. Stanford University Press. 

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) 

1992. Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

[Finance Docket No. 30186 (Sub-No. 

2)]. Tongue River Railroad Company – 

Construction and Operation of an 

Additional Rail Line From Ashland to 

Decker, MT. Washington, D.C.: 

Interstate Commerce Commission, 

Office of Economics, Section of Energy 

& Environment, July17, 1992. 

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 

2007, Climate Change 2007: The Physical 

Science Basis. Contribution of Working 

Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report 

of the Intergovernmental Panel on 

Climate Change (Solomon, S., Qin, D., 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-13 

Manning, M., Chen, Z., Marquis, M., 

Averyt, K.B., Tignor, M. and Miller, 

H.L. (eds.)). Cambridge University 

Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and 

New York, NY, USA, 996 pp. 

(http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-

wg1.htm) 

Jaeger, M. 

2004. Montana species of concern, sauger. 

Montana Cooperative Fisheries Research 

Unit. 

http://www.fisheries.org/AFSMontana/S

SCpages/. 

Jarrett, A. R. 

1995. Water management. Kendall, Iowa. Hunt 

Publishing Company. 

Jennings, W. F. 

1989. Final report. Species studied: Eustoma 

grandiflorum, Spiranthes diluvialis, 

Malaxis brachypoda, Hypoxis hirsuta, 

Physaria bellii, Aletes humilis.

Unpublished report prepared for the 

Nature Conservancy under the Colorado 

Natural History Small Grants Program. 

The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, CO. 

Jennings, W. F. 

1990. Final report. Species studied: Spiranthes 

diluvialis, Sisyrinchium pallidum. 

Unpublished report prepared for The 

Nature Conservancy under the Colorado 

Natural History Small Grants Program. 

The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, 

Colorado. 29 pp. 

Johnson, K., T.B. Neville, and P. Neville.. 

2006. GIS Habitat Analysis for Lesser Prairiechickens in Southeastern New Mexico. 

BMC Ecology 6:18. 

Jones, A.H., G.B. Bell, and R.A. Schraufnagel 

1992. “A review of the physical and 

mechanical properties of coal with 

implications for coalbed methane well 

completion and production.” In: Coal 

Bed Methane. S.A. Holditch et al., eds. 

Soc. of Petrol Eng. Reprint Series 

No. 35. 

Jones, R.W., R.H. De Bruin, and G.B. Glass 

1987. Investigations of Venting Methane and 

Hydrogen Sulfide Gas at Rawhide 

Village, Campbell County, Wyoming. In: 

Wyoming Department of Environmental 

Quality. Rawhide II Project Report, 

Appendix I, Geology. Unpublished 

report. Wyoming Department of 

Environmental Quality, Cheyenne, 

Wyoming. 

Kaiser, R.C. 

2006. Recruitment by greater sage-grouse in 

association with natural gas development 

in Western Wyoming. M.S. Thesis, 

University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY. 

Keeling, C.D. and T.P. Whorf. 

2006. Atmospheric CO2 records from sites in 

the SIO air sampling network. In Trends: 

A Compendium of Data on Global 

Change. Carbon Dioxide Information 

Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National 

Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, 

Oak Ridge, Tenn., U.S.A. 

Keister, G. P., and M. J. Willis. 

1986. Habitat selection and success of sage 

grouse hens while nesting and brooding. 

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, 

Progress Report W-87-R-2, Subproject 

285, Portland, OR. 

Kemner, M. C. and B. Lowe 

2002. Sage grouse winter habitat—why we 

need multiple years of data collection. 

Presented at the annual meeting of the 

Idaho Chapter of The Wildlife Society. 

March 18–19, 2002. Idaho Falls, ID. 

Knick, S.T., D.S. Dobkin, J.T. Rotenberry, M.A. 

Schroeder, W. M. Vander Haegen, and C. 

Van Riper III. 

2003. Issues in Conservation: Teetering on the 

Edge or Too Late? Conservation and 

Research Issues for Avifauna of 

Sagebrush Habitats. The Condor 

105:611-634. The Cooper Ornithological 

Society. 

Knight, R.L. and D.N. Cole 

1991. Effects of recreational activity on 

wildlife in wildlands. Transactions of the 

North American Wildlife and Natural 

Resources Conference. 

Koford, C. B. 

1958. “Prairie dogs, whitefaces, and blue 

grama.” Wild. Monogr. 3:1-78. 

Kohn, S. C. 

1976. Sharp-tailed grouse nesting and brooding 

habitat in southwest North Dakota. M.S. 

Thesis, South Dakota State University, 

Brookings, SD. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-14 

Kuipers, J.R., K.MacHardy, W. Merschat, and T. 

Meyers. 

2004. Coal Bed Methane-Produced Water: 

Management Options for Sustainable 

Development – DRAFT. Report prepared 

for Northern Plains Resource Council. 

Billings, MT. August 2004. 

Lahti, T. 

2001. Personal communication between 

T. Lahti/BLM, Cheyenne, WY, and 

C. Blair/CH2M HILL, Boise, ID. 

July 23, 2001. 

Langhus, B. 

2001. Personal communication between 

Dr. B.G. Langhus/ALL Consulting with 

Tim Burkhardt/CH2M HILL. May, 2001. 

Langhus, B. 

2006. Summary of personal communications 

with CBNG Operators in the planning 

area by Bruce Langhus, PhD. March 9, 

2006. 

Leeman, D., M. McKinley, and E. Heffern 

2005. Personal communication between Dan 

Leeman, Mike McKinley, Ed Heffern/ 

BLM, and Dr. Bruce Langhus/ALL 

Consulting. November 11, 2005. 

Leythenhaeuser, D., and Welte, D 

1969. Relation between distribution of heavy nparaffins and coalification in 

carboniferous coals of the SAAR district, 

Germany. In P. Schrenk and I. Havenaar 

(eds.), Advances in Organic 

Geochemistry, 1968. NYC, Pergamon 

Press, pp. 429-442. 

Likwartz. D. 

2005. Personal communication between Don 

Likwartz/WOGCC and Bruce Langhus/ 

ALL Consulting. November, 2005. 

Little Coyote, J. 

2001. Comprehensive Economic Development 

Strategy. CEDS document. Prepared by 

the Economic Development 

Administration for the Northern 

Cheyenne Tribe, Lame Deer, MT. 

Luckenbach, R.A. 

1975. What the ORVs are doing to the desert. 

Fremontia s(4):3-11. 

Luckenbach, R.A. 

1978. An analysis of off-road vehicle use on 

desert avifaunas. Transactions of the 

North American Wildlife and Natural 

Resources Conference. Wildlife 

Management Institute, Washington, DC, 

43:157-162. 

Lyman, R. M. and Volkmer, John E. 

2001. Pyrophoricity (spontaneous combustion) 

of Powder River Basin coals—

considerations for coalbed methane 

development, Coal Report CR 01-1, 

Laramie, Wyoming, March 2001: 

Wyoming State Geological Survey. 

Lyon, A. G., and S.H. Anderson 

2003. Potential gas development impacts on 

sage-grouse nest initiation and 

movement. Wildlife Society Bulletin 

31:486-491. 

Lyon, A. G. 

2000. The potential effects of natural gas 

development on sage grouse 

(Centrocercus urophasianus) near 

Pinedale, Wyoming. Thesis, University 

of Wyoming, Laramie. 

Lyon, L.J. 

1979. “Habitat effectiveness for elk as 

influenced by roads and cover.” Journal 

of Forestry. 77:658-60. 

Lyon, L.J. 

1983. “Road density models describing habitat 

effectiveness for elk.” Journal of 

Forestry. 81:592-595, 613. 

Mackie, R.J. 

2004. Survey of Mule Deer on the Southern 

Portion of the Northern Cheyenne 

Reservation and Adjacent Public and 

Private Lands, April 27-29, 2004 

Mader, H.J. 

1984. “Animal habitat isolation by roads and 

agricultural fields.” Biological 

Conservation. 29:81-96. 

Madison, C. 

2001. Personal Communication between ALL 

Consulting and Clark Madison/BIA 

Realty Office, Billings, MT. April 25, 

2001. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-15 

Madsen, J. 

1985. “Impact of disturbance on field 

utilization of pink-footed geese in West 

Jutland, Denmark.” Biological 

Conservation. 33:53-64. 

Martin, N. S. 

1970. “Sagebrush control related to habitat and 

sage grouse occurrence.” Journal of 

Wildlife Management. 34(2):313-320. 

Mattson, D. J., and D. G. Despain 

1985. Grizzly bear habitat component mapping 

handbook for the Yellowstone 

ecosystem. Interagency Grizzly Bear 

Study Team: National Park Service and 

U.S. Forest Service, May 1985. 

MBMG 

See Montana Bureau of Mines and 

Geology. 

MBOGC 

 See Montana Board of Oil and Gas 

Conservation. 

McLellan, M.W., Biewick, L.R.H., Molnia, and 

Pierce, F.W. 

1990. Cross sections showing the reconstructed 

stratigraphic framework of Paleocene 

rocks and coalbeds in the northern and 

central Powder River Basin, Montana 

and Wyoming. USGS Misc. Invest., Map 

I-1959-A. 

McCracken, J. G. and Daniel W. Uresk 

1984. “Big game habitat use in southeastern 

Montana.” The Prairie Naturalist.

16(3):135-139. 

MDEQ 

See Montana Department of 

Environmental Quality. 

MDNRC 

See Montana Department of Natural 

Resources and Conservation. 

Meehan, W.R., ed. 

1991. In Influences of Forest and Rangeland 

Management on Salmonid Fishes and 

Their Habitats. American Fisheries 

Society Special Publication 19. 

Memphis State University 

1971. Effects of noise on wildlife and other 

animals. Washington D.C. U.S. 

Government Printing Office. 

NTID300.5. 

Merriam G., M. Kozakiewicz, E. Tsuchiya, and K. 

Hawley 

1989. “Barriers as boundaries for 

metapopulations and demes of 

Peromyscus leucopus in farm 

landscapes.” Landscape Ecology. 2:227-

236. 

Meyer, J. 

2000. Testimony before Wyoming Select 

Water Committee, Gillette, WY. 

November, 2000. 

MFWP 

See Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and 

Parks 

Miller, M. et al. 

1977. Compilation of Hydrogeological data for 

Southeastern MT. MBMG Open File 

Report Hy77-1. 

Miller, W.R. 

1981. Water resources of the Southern Powder 

River area, Southeastern Montana, 

MBMG, Memoir 47. 

Milodrgovich, S. 

2001. Montana Power Company. Personal 

Communication with Larry Ran, BLM. 

Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation 

1989. Oil and gas drilling and production in 

Montana: Final programmatic 

environmental impact statement.

Prepared for the Board of Oil and Gas 

Conservation. Pursuant to Senate Bill 

184, with assistance from the Office of 

the Governor, the Department of Health 

and Environmental Sciences, the 

Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, 

the Department of State Lands, and the 

Department of Natural Resources and 

Conservation. 

Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation 

1999. Montana Board of Oil and Gas Annual 

Review, Oil and Gas Conservation 

Division, Department of Natural 

Resources and Conservation. 

Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation 

2000. Activity review—annual review for the 

year 1999, Montana Bureau of Oil and 

Gas Conservation. 

Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation 

2001a. Montana Bureau Of Oil and Gas 

Database, April 2001. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-16 

Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation

2001b. CX Ranch second quarter production 

records, June 2001. 

Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation. 

2002. Montana Board of Oil and Gas 

Conservation database, June 2002. 

Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation. 

2003. Montana Board of Oil and Gas 

Conservation, Record of Decision, 

Statewide Coal Bed methane Exploration 

and Development, March 26, 2003. 

Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation 

2005. MBOGC online database. 

http://bogc.dnrc.state.mt.us/OnlineData.h

tm. 

Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation 

2006. MBOGC online database. 

http://bogc.dnrc.state.mt.us/OnlineData.h

tm.

Montana Board of Oil and Gas Conservation and 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1987. Cooperative Agreement between U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management, Montana State 

Office, and the State of Montana, Board 

of Oil and Gas Conservation concerning 

Oil and Gas Well Spacing/Well Location 

Jurisdiction, November 19, 1987. 

Montana Bureau of Mines & Geology 

1982. Occurrence and characteristics of 

groundwater in Montana, 1982. Montana 

Bureau of Mines and Geology. 99(1). 

Montana Bureau of Mines & Geology 

2001. Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology, 

groundwater Information Center 

database, http://mbmggwic.mtech.edu/

March. 

Montana Bureau of Mines & Geology 

2002. Potential Ground-water Drawdown and 

Recovery from Coalbed Methane 

Development in the Powder River Basin, 

Montana, Open File Report MBMG 485, 

John Wheaton & John Metesh. 

Montana Bureau of Mines & Geology 

2005. Draft Water Year 2005 Surface Water 

Report for the Tongue River. 

Montana Department of Agriculture 

2000. Montana agricultural statistics 2000; 

1998-1999 county estimates. ISSN: 

1095-7278, Volume XXXVII. 

Montana Department of Commerce 

2001. Montana Department of Commerce, 

Census and Economic Information 

Center. Projections by NPA Data 

Services, Inc. http:/ / ceic.commerce.state. 

mt.us. <April 17, 2001>. 

Montana Department of Commerce, Billings 

2001. Personal communication between Glenda 

Craft/Montana Department of 

Commerce, Billings, and Tim 

Burkhardt/CH2M HILL. April 24, 2001. 

Montana Department of Commerce, Billings 

2006. Montana Department of Commerce, 

Census and Economic Information 

Center. Data for 2000 - 2006. 

Montana Department of Environmental Quality 

2001a. Nondegradation of water quality (rules), 

Administrative Rules of Montana 

17.30.501-518. 

Montana Department of Environmental Quality 

2001b. State of Montana Air Quality 

Nonattainment Area Maps. 

http://www.deq.state.mt.us/ppa/rpp/air_n

onattainment.asp. 

Montana Department of Environmental Quality 

2001c. Water Quality White Paper, Powder 

River Basin Water Quality Criteria, 

October, 2001. 

Montana Department of Environmental Quality 

2002. Air Quality Monitoring Data. 

http://www.deq.state.mt.us/ppa/mdm/air/

nwrev/nw_intro.asp. <July 9, 2001>. 

Montana Department of Environmental Quality 

2003. Montana Air Monitoring Network 

Review 2003. July 2003 Montana DEQ. 

http://www.deq.state.mt.us/AirMonitorin

g/networkRev/network2003.pdf. 

Montana Department of Environmental Quality 

2003a. Roundup Power Project Final 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

January, 2003. 

Montana Department of Environmental Quality 

2003b. Record of Decision for Roundup Power 

Project. January 31, 2003. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-17 

Montana Department of Environmental Quality 

2004. Final 2004 Montana Integrated 303 

(d)/305(b) Report. Montana DEQ. 

http://deq.mt.gov/wqinfo. 

Montana Department of Environmental Quality 

2004. Water Quality Integrated Report for 

Montana, 2004 http://nris.state.mt.us/ 

wis/environet/2004Home.html. 

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks 

2004. Region 7 Sage Grouse Database. 

Microsoft Access database, 

R7SageGrouse2004.mdb. 

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks 

2005. Black-tailed Prairie Dog – Cynomys 

ludovicianus. 

http://fwp.state.mt.us/fieldguide/detail_A

MAFB06010.aspx

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks 

2005a. Species ranking status code. 

http://fwp.state.mt.us/fieldguide/statusCo

des.aspx#msrc. 

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks 

2005b. Montana animal field guide. 

http://fwp.state.mt.us/fieldguide. 

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks 

2005c. 2003-2005 Fish sampling and habitat 

collected on Rosebud, Youngs, Hanging 

Woman, Waddle, Pumpkin, Springs 

creeks and Little Powder, Powder and 

Tongue rivers. 

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks 

2005d. Montana’s Comprehensive Fish and 

Wildlife Conservation Strategy, 

http://fwp.mt.gov/specieshabitate/strateg

y/fullplan.html 

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks 

2006. An evaluation of eastern Montana prairie 

streams located within coalbed methane 

development areas. Montana Fish, 

Wildlife and Parks, Region 7, Miles City, 

Montana. 

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks 

2008. Montana Wolf Program Weekly Report, 

May 2008 

Montana Department of Labor & Industry, 

Research & Analysis Bureau, Local Area 

Unemployment Statistics 

2001a. Information for 1990 and 2000. 

http://rad.dli.state.mt.us/employ/

aa901f.htm. <April 11, 2001>. 

Montana Department of Labor and Industry 

2001b. Email from Phil Brooks, Chief 

Economist, to Tim Burkhardt, 

CH2M HILL, September 20, 2001. 

Montana Department of Natural Resources and 

Conservation, Minerals Management 

Bureau 

2001. http://www.dnrc.state.mt.us/ trust/

mmb.htm. <April 25, 2001>. 

Montana Department of Natural Resources and 

Conservation, Minerals Management 

Bureau 

2005. Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2005. 

Montana Department of Natural Resources and 

Conservation, Trust Land Management 

Division, Minerals Management. 

2000. Montana Department of Natural 

Resources and Conservation. Trust Land 

Management Division, Minerals 

Management. www.dnrc.state.mt.us/

trust/ mmb.htm. <April 2001> 

Montana Department of Revenue 

2000. Biennial report of the Montana 

Department of Revenue, July 1, 1998 to 

June 30, 2000. Prepared by Tax Policy 

and Research. Helena, MT. 

Montana Department of Revenue 

2001. Guide to taxes administered by the 

Montana Department of Revenue. 

Compiled by Tax Policy and Research, 

Helena, MT. 

Montana Department of Revenue 

2004. Biennial Report of the Montana 

Department of Revenue, July 1, 2002 to 

June 30, 2004. 

Montana Fisheries Information System (MFISH) 

2005. http://maps2.nris.state.mt.us/scripts/

esrimap.dll?name=MFISH&Cmd=INST. 

Montana Gap Analysis Project 

1998. The Montana gap analysis project final 

report. Wildlife Spatial Analysis Lab. 

Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research 

Unit at the University of Montana, 

Missoula, MT. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-18 

The Montana NHP 

2005. Montana Plant Field Guide. 

http://nhp.nris.state.mt.us/plants/plant_tit

le.html. 

Montana Sage Grouse Work Group. 

Draft Management Plan and 

Conservation Strategies for Sage Grouse 

in Montana. 

Montana Sage Grouse Work Group 

2005. Management Plan and Conservation 

Strategies for Sage Grouse in Montana – 

Final. Revised February 1, 2005. 

Montana State Library Natural Resources 

Information System (NRIS) 

2001. Guidebook to Montana’s plant species of 

special concern. http://orion2.nris.state. 

mt.us/ mtnhp/ plants. <April 9, 2001>. 

Montana State Library Natural Resources 

Information System (NRIS) 

2002. Montana Natural Resources Information 

System database. 

http://nris.state.mt.us/wis/mris1.html. 

Montana State Library Natural Resources 

Information System (NRIS) 

2005. Montana Natural Resources Information 

System database. 

http://maps2.nris.state.mt.us/WIS/MFIS

H . 

Montana State Office Instruction Memorandum 

(MSO IM) 

2000. See MSO IM No. 2000-053, June 1, 

2000 for No Surface Occupancy 

Stipulations. 

Montana State University News Service 

2005. West Nile virus carriers flourish in coal 

bed methane ponds. 

http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwvi

ew.php?article=2990 <November 2, 

2005>. 

Montana Summit Steering Committee and Weed 

Management Task Force 

2005. The Montana Weed Management Plan, 

draft. 

Montana-Wyoming Tribal Council 

2001. Montana-Wyoming Tribal Council Web 

Page. http://www.tlc.wtp.net/

Northern.htm. <May 2001>. 

Montgomery, S.L., D.E. Tabet, and C.E. Barker. 

2001. Upper Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone: 

major coalbed methane play in central 

Utah. A.A.P.G. Bull v. 85, pp. 199-219. 

Mount, D.R., D.D. Gulley, J.R. Hockett, T.D. 

Garrison, and J. M. Evans 

1997. “Statistical models to predict the toxicity 

of major ions to Ceriodaphnia dubia, 

Daphnia magna and Pimiphales promelas 

(fathead minnows).” Environmental 

Toxicology and Chemistry. 16 (10): 

2009-2019. 

Moynahan, B.J., M.S. Lindberg, and J.W. Thomas 

2006. Factors contributing to process variance 

in annual survival of female greater sagegrouse in Montana. Ecol. Applic. 

16(4):1529-1538. 

MT-GAP 

 See Montana Gap Analysis Project. 

Munn, Larry 

2001. Letter Regarding Concerns with Methane 

Discharges on Soils and Vegetation. 

August 8, 2001. 

Murphy, M.L. and W.R. Meehan 

1991. “Stream ecosystems.” In Influences of 

Forest and Rangeland Management on 

Salmonid Fishes and Their Habitats.

William R. Meehan, ed., U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service. American Fisheries Society 

Special Publication 19. Bethesda, MD. 

National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 

2008. Understanding and Responding to 

Climate Change; Highlights of National 

Academies Reports – 2008 Edition, 

National Academy Press, Washington, 

D.C., 28 pgs. 

(http://dels.nas.edu/dels/rpt_briefs/climat

e_change_2008_final.pdf) 

National Research Council (NRC), 

2001 Climate Change Science: An Analysis of 

Some Key Questions, National Academy 

Press, Washington, D.C., 29 pgs. 

National Assessment Synthesis Team (NAST), 

2000, Climate Change Impacts on the United 

States: The Potential Consequences of 

Climate Variability and Change, US 

Global Change Research Program, 

Washington DC. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-19 

(http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/n

ationalassessment/overview.htm) 

Natural Resources Committee 

North Dakota Fifty-eighth Legislative 

Assembly. Bill for an Act Relating to 

Temporary Exemption from the Gross 

Production Tax for Gas From Shallow 

Gas Wells and to Provide an Expiration 

Date. HB 1145. 

Naugle, D.E., C.L. Aldridge, B.L. Walker, T.E. 

Cornish, B.J. Moynahan, M.J. Holloran, 

K. Brown, G.D. Johnson, E.T. 

Schmidtmann, R.T. Mayer, C.Y Kato, 

M.R. Matchett, T.J. Christiansen, W.E. 

Cook, T. Creekmore, R.D. Falise, E.T. 

Rinkes, and M.S. Boyce 

2004. West Nile virus: pending crisis for 

greater sage-grouse. Ecology Letters, 

(7):704-713. 

Naugle, D.E., B.L. Walker, and K.E. Doherty 

2007. Greater Sage-Grouse Population 

Response to Energy Development and 

Habitat Loss, Journal of Wildlife 

Management. 71(8):2644-2654. 

Neftel, A., H. Friedli, E. Moore, H. Lotscher, H. 

Oeschger, U. Siegenthaler, and B. 

Stauffer. 

1994 Historical carbon dioxide record from the 

Siple Station ice core. pp. 11-14. In T.A. 

Boden, D.P. Kaiser, R.J. Sepanski, and 

F.W. Stoss (eds.) Trends'93: A 

Compendium of Data on Global Change. 

ORNL/CDIAC-65. Carbon Dioxide 

Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge 

National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn. 

U.S.A. 

Nelson, C. R. 

2000. “Coalbed methane potential of the U.S. 

Rocky Mountain Region.” GasTips. Fall 

200. 6(3)4-12. 

Nelson, R.L., M.L. McHenry, and W.S. Platts 

1991. “Mining.” In Influences of Forest and 

Rangeland Management on Salmonid 

Fishes and Their Habitats. William R. 

Meehan, ed., U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Forest Service. American 

Fisheries Society Special Publication 19. 

Bethesda, MD. 

Newcombe, C.P. and J.O.T. Jensen 

1996. “Channel suspended sediment and 

fisheries: a synthesis for quantitative 

assessment of risk.” North American 

Journal of Fisheries Management. 

16:693-727. 

Noble, R.A., R.N. Bergantino, T.W. Patton, B. 

Sholes, F. Daniel, and J. Schofield 

1982. Occurrence and characteristics of 

groundwater in Montana, MBMG 99. 

Norris, L.A., H.W. Lorz, and S.V. Gregory 

1991. “Forest chemicals.” In Influences of 

Forest and Rangeland Management on 

Salmonid Fishes and Their Habitats.

William R. Meehan, ed., U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service. American Fisheries Society 

Special Publication 19. Bethesda, MD. 

Northern Cheyenne Tribe 

2001. Draft Application to EPA for Water 

Quality Standards Program, Northern 

Cheyenne Reservation, Lame Deer, 

Montana. 

Northern Cheyenne Tribe 

2002. The Northern Cheyenne Tribe and Its 

Reservation. A report to the U.S. Bureau 

of Land Management and the State of 

Montana Dept. of Natural Resources and 

Conservation. April 2002. 

Northern Cheyenne Tribe–State of Montana 

1991. Water Rights Compact, State of 

Montana, Northern Cheyenne Tribe, 

United States of America, 85-20-301, 

MCA. Northern Cheyenne-Montana 

Compact , en. sec. 1, ch. 812, l. 1991. 

Northern Cheyenne Tribe 

2005. Letter from the Northern Cheyenne Tribe 

to BLM/Miles City Field Office dated 

October 18, 2005. 

Northern Plains Resource Council. 

2001. Letter to Judy Martz, Governor, State of 

Montana. Numeric Water Quality 

Standards. December 19, 2001. 

Northern Plains Resource Council 

Objection to Application of Fidelity 

Exploration and Production Company 

Application No. 42B-115291-00. 

Nussbaum, R. A., E. D. Brodie, Jr., and R. M. 

Storm 

1983. Amphibians and reptiles of the Pacific 

Northwest. University of Idaho Press. 

Moscow, ID. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-20 

Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and 

Enforcement 

1998. Annual evaluation summary report for 

regulatory and abandoned mine land 

programs administered by the State of 

Montana. Evaluation Year 1998. 

Otton, James K., Sigrid Asher-Bolinder, Douglass 

E. Owen, and Laurel Hall. 

1997. Effects of Produced Waters at Oilfield 

Production Sites on the Osage Indian 

Reservation, Northeastern Oklahoma. 

U.S. Geological Survey. Open File 

Report 97-28. February, 1997. 

Oxley, D.J. and M.B. Fenton 

1974. “The effects of roads on populations of 

small mammals.” Journal of Applied 

Ecology. 11:51-59. 

Padden, L. 

2001. Personal communication between L. 

Padden/BLM Billings Field Office with 

David Epperly/ALL Consulting. 

April 23, 2001. 

Patricelli, G. 

2005. Personal communication between G. 

Patricelli/University of California, Davis 

and J. Grialou/Parametrix. November 10, 

2005. 

Patten, M.A., D.H. Wolfe, E. Shochat, and 

S.K. Sherrod 

2005. Habitat Fragmentation, Rapid Evolution 

and Population Persistence. Evolutionary 

Ecology Research. 7:235–249. 

Perry, E.S. 

1962. Montana in the geologic past. Montana 

Bureau of Mines and Geology. Bulletin 

Number 26. 

Perry, C. and R. Overly 

1976. Impact of roads on big game distribution 

in portions of the Blue Mountains of 

Washington. In Hieb SR, ed. Proc. ElkLogging-Roads Symposium. Univ. of 

Idaho. For. Wildl. and Range Exp. Sta., 

Moscow, Idaho. p. 62-8. 

Peterson et al. 

1995. Cultural Resource Investigations of the 

Tongue River Dam Project Big Horn 

County, Montana. Contract report by 

Ethnoscience for the Montana 

Department of Natural Resources and 

Conservation, Helena, MT. 

Peterson L. and S. Deaver 

2002. An Ethnographic Overview of Southeast 

Montana, February 2001. Prepared for 

the BLM State Office, Billings, MT. 

Petroleum Information Corporation 

2001. Historical Well Data Base for Montana. 

Pinnacle 

2005a. Coal Creek Field Plan of Development 

Environmental Assessment, Pinnacle 

Gas Resources Inc. for the BLM Miles 

City Office. August 2005. 

Pinnacle 

2005b. Dietz Plan of Development 

Environmental Assessment, Pinnacle 

Gas Resources Inc. for the BLM Miles 

City Office. September 2005. 

Pitchford, Marc L., and William C. Malm 

1994. Development and Applications of a 

Standard Visual Index. Atmospheric 

Environment 28(5):1,049-54. 

Pitman, J.C., C.A. Hagen, R.J. Robel, T.M. 

Loughin and R.D. Applegate. 

2005. Location and success of lesser prairiechicken nests in relation to vegetation 

and human disturbance. Journal of 

Wildlife Management 69:1259-1269. 

Ports, M. A., and S. B. George 

1990. S orex preblei in the northern Great 

Basin. Great Bas. Nat. 50:93-95. 

Posewitz, J. 

1999. Beyond fair chase: the ethic and tradition 

of hunting. Helena, MT.: Falcon 

Publishing Co., Inc. 

PRG 

2004. Coal Creek Plan of Development 

Environmental Assessment, Powder 

River Gas for the BLM Miles City 

Office. November 2004. 

PTTC 

2000. Coal bed methane strategraphic traps in 

the ferron coals of east-central Utah, 

PTTC Rocky Mountain Newsletter, 

September. 

Questa 

2000. Questa Engineering Corporation, 3M 

CBM Reservoir Model Final Report, 

May 2000, prepared for the Southern Ute 

Indian Tribe, COGCC, and BLM, 

Durango, CO. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-21 

Ranney, H.J. 

2001. Discussion of Bicarbonate Issues 

Relative to CBM Development, Letter to 

MDEQ, November 14, 2001. 

Rau, L. 

2004 Coalbed Natural Gas Program Wildlife 

Monitoring and Protection Plan, 2003 

Annual Report. 

Reading, R. P., J. J. Grensten, and T. W. Clark 

1989. “Attributes of black-tailed prairie dog 

colonies in north central Montana, with 

management recommendation for the 

conservation of biodiversity.” In: The 

Prairie Dog Ecosystem: Managing for 

Biological Diversity. Tim W. Clark, Dan 

K. Hinckley and Terrell Rich, eds. 

Montana BLM Wildlife Technical 

Bulletin No. 2. Billings, MT. 

Reed, G. 

2002. Personal communication with Mr. 

George Reed of the Crow Tribe Cultural 

Department, September 10, 2002. 

Regele, S. and J. Stark 

2000. “Coal-bed methane gas development in 

Montana, some biological issues.” 

Symposium proceedings, September 1, 

2000: Interactive forum on Surface 

Mining Reclamation Approaches to 

Bond Release. Sponsored by USDI 

Office of Surface Mining, Denver, CO; 

the MDEQ, Helena, MT; and Montana 

Bureau of Mines and Geology, Butte, 

MT. 

Reichel, J. D., D. L. Genter, and E. Atkinson 

1992. Sensitive animal species in the Elkhorn 

and Big Belt Mountains of the Helena 

National Forest. Montana Natural 

Heritage Program. Helena, MT. 

Reichel, J. D., and D. Flath 

1995. “Identification of Montana’s amphibians 

and reptiles.” Montana Outdoors

26(3):15-34. 

Reid, L.M. and T. Dunne 

1984. Sediment production from forest road 

surfaces. Water Resources Research. 

20:1753-1761. 

Rice, D.D. 

1997. Coalbed methane—an untapped energy 

resource and an environmental concern: 

U.S. Geological Fact Sheet FS-019-97. 

http://energy.usgs.gov/factsheets/

coalbed/coalmeth.html. 

Rice, D.D. and T.M. Finn 

1995. Powder River Basin (033). In: Gautier, 

D.L. G.L. Dolton, K.I. Takahashi, and 

K.L. Varnes, eds. 1995 National 

Assessment of United States Oil and Gas 

Resources Results, Methodology, and 

Supporting Data. U.S. Geological Survey 

Digital Data Series DDS-30, CDROM. 

Rice, C. A., M. S. Ellis, and J. H. Bullock 

2000. Water co-produced with coal bed 

methane. USGS Open File report 00-372. 

Roberts, Albert E. 

1966. Geology and Coal Resources of the 

Livingston Coal Field, Gallatin and Park 

Counties, Montana. U.S. Geological 

Survey Professional Paper 526-A. 

Roberts, S.B., G.L. Gunther, T.T. Taber, A.M. 

Ochs, D. Blake, M.S. Ellis, G.D. Stricker, 

E.M. Wilde, J.H. Schuenemeyer, and 

H.C. Power. 

1999a. Decker Coalfield, Powder River Basin, 

Montana: geology, coal quality, and coal 

resources, in USGS Prof. Paper 1625-A. 

Roberts, S.B., E.M. Wilde, G.S. Rossi, D. Blake, 

M.S. Ellis, G.D. Stricker, A.M. Ochs, G.L. 

Gunther, J.H. Schuenmeyer, and H.C. 

Power. 

1999b. Ashland Coalfield, Powder River Basin, 

Montana: geology, coal quality, and coal 

resources, in USGS Prof. Paper 1625-A. 

Roedel, M. D. 

1999. Montana animal species of special 

concern [Unpublished list.] Montana 

Natural Heritage Program, Helena, MT. 

Rost, G.R. and J.A. Bailey 

1979. “Distribution of mule deer and elk in 

relation to roads.” Journal of Wildlife 

Management. 43:634-641. 

Roundup Power Project. 

2003. Draft Air Quality Permit No. 3182-00. 

January 31, 2003. 

Saab, V.A., C.E. Bock, T.D. Rich, D.S. Dobkin 

1995. “Livestock grazing effects in western 

North America.” In: Martian, Thomas E.; 

Finch, Deborah M., eds. Ecology and 

management of neotropical migratory 

birds. New York: Oxford University 

Press: 311-353. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-22 

Sage Grouse Winter Habitat—Why We Need 

Multiple Years of Data Collection 

2002. Presented at the Idaho Chapter, The 

Wildlife Society Meeting, March 2002. 

Idaho Falls, Idaho. 

Sampson, C. 

2005. 2003 and 2004 Southeastern Montana 

prairie stream survey. Report prepared 

by Montana Department of Fish, 

Wildlife, and Parks, Miles City, MT. 

Sattler, Allan R., Malynda A. Aragon, M. Michael 

Hightower 

2006 Technical Review of Proposed Changes 

in Montana Water Quality Standards for 

Coal Bed Natural Gas Produced Water, 

Sandia National Laboratories 

Savage, D. E. 

1969. Relation of sage grouse to upland 

meadows in Nevada. Nevada Fish and 

Game Commission, Job Completion 

Report, Project W-39-R-9, Job 12, Reno, 

NV. 

Schneider, T. J. 

2001. Coal Bed Methane Produced Water ReInjection, NPRC White Paper, May 16, 

2001. 

Scire, et al. 

2000. A Users Guide for the CALPUFF 

Dispersion Model (Version 5). Earth 

Tech, Inc., Concord, MA. 

Shafroth, P.B., J.M. Friedman, and L.S. Ischinger 

 “Effects of salinity on establishment of 

Populus fremontii (cottonwood) and 

Tamarix ramosissima (saltcedar) in 

southwestern United States.” Great 

Basin Naturalist. 55(1): 58-65. 

Schafer, Jerry 

2001. Natural Resource Conservation Service 

(NRCS), Bozeman via personal 

communication with Tom Pick, NRCS, 

Bozeman. 

Seekins, J.W. 

2005. Personal communication with Joe 

Icenogle, Fidelity Exploration and 

Production Company, Regulatory/Public 

Affairs Manager. October 2005.

Seekins, J.W. 

2006. Personal Communication between Jon 

Seekins/ALL Consulting and E. 

Harris/Parametrix. March 8, 2006. 

Sheley, R. 

2001. Basics of Leafy Spurge. 

http://www.weeds.montana.edu/range/sp

urge.htm. MSU Weed Sciences. October 

2001. 

Sheley, R.J. Petroff, M. Borman 

1999. Introduction to Biology and Management 

of Noxious Rangeland Weeds, Corvallis, 

OR. 

Sheridan County Conservation District 

Abstract. Protecting Natural Resources 

by Reclaiming Oil-Field Brine 

Contaminated Soils. 

Sheviak, C. J. 

1984. “Spiranthes diluvialis (Orchidacae), a 

new species from the western United 

States.” Brittonia. 36:8-14. 

Sika, J. 

2005. E-mail communication from Jenny Sika, 

Montana State University, to Jayson 

Parks, BLM Billings Field Office. 

September 21, 2005. 

Skaar, D., A. Farag, and D. Harper 

2005. Toxicity of major salt (sodium 

bicarbonate) from coalbed methane 

production to fish in the Tongue and 

Powder River drainages in Montana. 

National Pollution Discharge Elimination 

System, Semi-Annual Progress Report to 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, 

and U.S. Geological Survey.

Skaar, D. 

2006. Unpublished letter by Don Skaar of 

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, to the 

Secretary of the Board of Environmental 

Review, Helena Montana. 

Slagle, S.E., B.D. Lewis, and R.W. Lee 

1985. Groundwater resources and potential 

hydrologic effects of surface coal mining 

in the northern Powder River Basin, 

southeastern Montana. U.S. Geological 

Surve Water Supply Paper 2239. 

Solley, W.B., R.R. Pierce, and H.A. Perlman. 

1995. Estimated use of water in the United 

States in 1995. U.S. Geological Circular 

1200. 

Stewart, Shawn, 

2006 Personal Communication between 

Shawn Stewart, Montana Fish Wildlife 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-23 

& Parks and Jon W. Seekins, ALL 

Consulting; regarding 2005/2006 Winter 

bighorn sheep index counts in the Pryor 

Mountains of Montana. June 15, 2006. 

Stoddart, L. A., A. D. Smith, and T. Box 

1975. Range Management. Third edition. 

McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. New York. 

Stone, J. L. 

1971. Winter movements and distribution of 

moose in upper Rock Creek drainage, 

Granite County, Montana. M.S. thesis. 

University of Montana, Missoula, MT. 

Stricker, G.D. 

1999. Bull Mountain Basin, Montana in 1999 

Resource Assessment of Selected 

Tertiary Coal Beds and Zones in the 

Northern Rocky Mountains and Great 

Plains Region, USGS Open File Report, 

1625-A. 

Suarez, Donald L., James D. Wood, and Scott M. 

Lesch 

2006. Evaluation of Water Quality Criteria for 

Rain-Irrigation Cropping Systems. 

USDA-ARS Salinity Laboratory. 

Surface Transportation Board (STB) 

2004. Tongue River Railroad—Construction 

and Operation of the Proposed Western 

Alignment Draft Supplemental EIS. 

Section of Environmental Analysis. 

Swihart, R.K. and N.A. Slade 

1984. “Road crossing in Sigmodon hispidus

and Microtus ochrogaster.” Journal of 

Mammalogy. 65:357-360. 

Taylor, Dzialak and Hayden-Wing 

2007. Greater Sage-Grouse Populations and 

Energy Development in Wyoming. 

Unpublished Report. 

Thomas, C.E, C.F. Mahoney, and G.W. Winter 

1987. “Water-injection maintenance and 

waterflood processes.” In: Petroleum 

Engineering Handbook. H.B. Bradley, 

ed.. Soc. of Petrol Eng. Richardson, TX. 

Trent, J. 

1991. Sociology Survey of 100 Respondents in 

the Planning Area. U.S. Department of 

the Interior, Bureau of Land 

Management, Montana State Office, 

Billings, MT.

Tribby, D. 

2006. Personal communication between 

D. Tribby/ BLM Miles City Field Office 

and Dave Bockelmann/ALL Consulting. 

May 30, 2006.. 

Tribby, D. 

2001. Personal communication between 

D. Tribby/ BLM Miles City Field Office 

with David Epperly/ ALL Consulting. 

April 12, 2001. 

Trombulak, S.C. and C.A. Frissell 

2000. “Review of ecological effects of roads on 

terrestrial and aquatic communities.” 

Conservation Biology. 14:18-30. 

Tuber, S.S. 

2002. Letter to Wyoming Department of 

Environmental Quality, Water Quality 

Division. General Permit for OffChannel Complete Containment Ponds. 

March 15, 2002. 

Tudor, M.S. 

1975. Geologic exploration and development 

of coal in the Sarpy Creek area, Big Horn 

County, Montana, in J. Doroshenko, 

W.R. Miller, E.E. Thompson, Jr., J.H. 

and Rawlins, eds., Energy Resources of 

Montana: Montana Geological Society 

22nd Annual Publication, pp. 159-164. 

Tyler, J. D. 

1968. Distribution and vertebrate associations 

of the black-tailed prairie dog in 

Oklahoma. PhD. Thesis, University of 

Oklahoma, Norman, OK. 

University of Montana 

2004. Invaders Database System. 

http://invader.dbs.umt.edu/queryarea.asp. 

Uresk, D.W. and J.C. Sharps. 

1986. Denning habitat and diet of swift fox in 

western South Dakota. Great Basin 

Naturalist 46:249-253. 

U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. 

2001. Regional Economic Information System. 

http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/regional/

bearfacts/bf10/index.htm <March 21, 

2001>. 

U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs 

1994. Land Titles and Records Office. U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, Rocky Mountain 

Regional Office. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-24 

U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs 

1999. Indian Labor Force Report, 1999. U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Indian Affairs Office of Tribal Services. 

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation 

1994. Indian Trust Asset Policy and NEPA 

Implementing Procedures, Questions and 

Answers about the Policy and 

Procedures. U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. 

August 31, 1994. 

U.S. Census Bureau 

1990. Household and housing unit estimates. 

http://www.census.gov/population/www/e

stimates/housing.html. <March 21, 

2001>. 

U.S. Census Bureau 

2001a. Census 2000 redistricting data (Public 

Law 94-171) summary file, matrices PL1 

and PL2. http://www.census.gov.

<March 21, 2001>. 

U.S. Census Bureau Small Area Income and 

Poverty Estimates Program 

2001b. Small Area Income and Poverty 

Estimates Program. U.S. Census Bureau 

website at http://

ceic.commerce.state.mt.us/Demog/

estimate/poverty/97allages.htm, accessed 

2001. 

U.S. Department of Agriculture 

1991. Record of Decision, Noxious Weed 

Management Amendment to Lolo 

National Forest Plan. U.S. Forest 

Service. Accessed via USDI Bureau of 

Land Management Weed Plan Web Site. 

http://www.blm.gov/nhp/main/

WP7weedplan.html <July 6, 2001> 

U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. 

Department of the Interior 

2000. Source habitats for terrestrial vertebrates 

of focus in the interior Columbia Basin: 

broad-scale trends and management 

implications. Vol. 1-Overview. U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service, Pacific Northwest Research 

Station and U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management. 

General Technical Report PNW-GTR485. 

U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service 

2000. Screening Methodology for Calculating 

ANC Change to High Elevation Lakes. 

Published by the USDA-Forest Service, 

Rocky Mountain Region. Lakewood, 

CO. 

U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service 

2005. Forest Service Region 1 sensitive species 

list. March 31, 2004. 

U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources 

Conservation Service 

1996 (1998 update). The state soils geographic 

database (STATSGO) (for Montana). 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural 

Resource Conservation Service. 

http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/stat_data.h

tml < March 2001>. 

U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources 

Conservation Service (formerly Soil 

Conservation Service) 

1972. Soil Survey of Yellowstone County, 

Montana. Soil Conservation Service. 

U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources 

Conservation Service 

1982. National Engineering Handbook, Part 

630 Hydrology. 

U.S. Department of Commerce 

1996. American Indian Reservations and Trust 

Areas. Accessed via Senator Max 

Baucus’ web page. 

http://www.baucus.senate.gov/

tribes.html. <November 12, 2001>. 

U.S. Department of Commerce, BEA 

2001. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau 

of Economic Analysis, 2001. 

http://ceic.commerce.state.mt.us/Econom

ic/BEA/CountyReis/index.htm. <March 

21, 2001; April 25, 2001; April 30, 

2001>. 

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of 

Economic Analysis 

2005. http://www.bea.doc.gov/bea/

regional/reis/ <September 29, 2005>. 

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Fuel 

and National Energy Technology 

Laboratory Strategic Center for Natural 

Gas 

2002. Powder River Basin Coalbed Methane 

Development and Produced Water 

Management Study. November, 2002. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-25 

U.S. Department of the Interior 

2000. Coalbed methane: potential and 

concerns. Fact Sheet FS-123-00. 

U.S. Department of the Interior 

2007. Letter to the Comptroller General, US 

Government Accountability Office in 

regards to GAO Report “Climate 

Change: Agencies Should Develop 

Guidance for Addressing the Effects on 

Federal Land and Water Resources” 

GAO-07-863 Climate Change, pgs 174-

178. 

U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDI and 

USDA) 

2001. Off-highway vehicle environmental 

impact statement and proposed plan 

amendment for Montana, North Dakota 

and portions of South Dakota. U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management, Montana State Office 

and U.S. Department of Agriculture, 

Forest Service, Northern Region. 

U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDI and 

USDA) 

2006. Surface Operating Standards and 

Guidelines for Oil and Gas Exploration 

and Development, The Gold Book, 

USDOI BLM and USDA Forest Service, 

Fourth Edition, 2006. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1983. Final environmental impact statement, 

resources management plan, Billings 

resource area. U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management. 

November 1983. BLM-MT-ES-84-002-

4410. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1984a. Record of Decision for the Billings 

Resource Management Plan, Final 

Environmental Impact Statement, 

September 1984, United States 

Department of Interior, Bureau of Land 

Management, Miles City District Office, 

September 1984. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1984b. Powder River Resource Area, Resource 

Management Plan, Miles City District, 

Final Environmental Impact Statement, 

December 1984, United States 

Department of Interior, Bureau of Land 

Management, Miles City District Office, 

BLM-MT-ES-85-0014410. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1985. Record of Decision for the Powder River 

Resource Area, Resource Management 

Plan, Final Environmental Impact 

Statement, March 1985, United States 

Department of Interior, Bureau of Land 

Management, Miles City District Office, 

September 1985. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1989. Powder River I regional draft EIS, 

economic, social, and cultural 

supplement. U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 

Miles City District Office. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management. 

1989. Final Economic, Social, and Cultural 

Supplement to the Powder River I 

Regional EIS. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1992. Final Oil and Gas RMP/EIS Amendment 

for the Billings, Powder River and South 

Dakota Resource Areas. U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management, Miles City District. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1994. Record of Decision: Powder River, 

Billings, and South Dakota Oil and Gas 

RMP/EIS Amendment. Miles City 

District, MT. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1995. Big Dry Resource Management Plan/

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Big Dry Resource Area of the Miles City 

District. Final. U.S. Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1996. Partners against weeds: an action plan 

for the Bureau of Land Management. 

BLM/MT/ST-96/003+1020. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1997a. Implementation Requirements for 

Noxious Weed Seed Forage on Public 

Lands in Montana (EA MT-001-EA97). 

Montana State Office, Billings, Montana. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-26 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1997b. Programmatic Agreement Among the 

Bureau of Land Management, the 

Advisory Council on Historic 

Preservation, and the National 

Conference of State Historic 

Preservation Officers Regarding the 

Manner in which BLM will meet its 

Responsibilities under the National 

Historic Preservation Act. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1998. Document H3160-2, Drainage Protection 

Guidelines Instruction Memorandum, 

DOI, BLM 3160-2 Drainage Protection 

Manual, State and Field Office Fluid 

Minerals staff, Denver Service Center, 

National Training Center. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1999a. ACEC Record of Decision. March 1999. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1999b. Wyodak coalbed methane project final 

EIS. U.S. Department of the Interior, 

Bureau of Land Management, Buffalo 

Field Office. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1999c. Seeding policy. Instruction 

Memorandum No. MT-020-2000-001. 

U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. 

Bureau of Land Management, Miles City 

District Office. Miles City, MT. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

1999d. Final Environmental Impact Statement - 

Continental Divide/Wamsutter II Natural 

Gas Project, Sweetwater and Carbon 

Counties. Rawlins and Rock Springs 

Field Offices. Rawlins and Rock Springs, 

WY. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2000a. Guidelines for Identifying Cultural 

Resources H-81-10, BLM Montana, 

Draft April 2000. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2000b. WYODAK Drainage Area EA, 

December. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management. 

2000c. Oil and Gas Development on the Southern 

UTE Indian Reservation. Environmental 

Impact Statement. BLM, Durango, CO.

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2001. Draft Statewide Oil and Gas 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Amendment of the Powder River and 

Billings Resource Management Plans. 

Miles City Field Office, Miles City, MT. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2001a. Reasonable foreseeable development 

scenario for oil and gas development in 

the Buffalo field office area, Campbell, 

Johnson, and Sheridan counties, 

Wyoming. Wyoming State Office, 

Reservoir Management Group. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2001b. Record of decision: Wyodak drainage 

coalbed methane environmental 

assessment. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2002a. Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

and Draft Planning Amendment for the 

Powder River Basin Oil and Gas Project. 

Buffalo Field Office. Buffalo, WY. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2002b. Washington Office, Policy on Conflicts 

Between Coal Bed Methane (CBM) and 

Coal Development, February 22, 2002. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2002c. Washington Office, Policy on Conflicts 

Between Coal Bed methane (CBM) and 

Coal development. Instruction 

Memorandum WO-IM-2000-81. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2003. Final Statewide Oil and Gas 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Proposed Amendment of the Powder 

River and Billings Resource 

Management Plan. United States 

Department of Interior, Bureau of Land 

Management, Miles City Field Office. 

BLM/MT/PL-03/005. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2003a. BLM Instruction Memorandum No. 

2003-253 (IM 2003-253): Policy and 

Guidance on Conflicts between Coalbed 

Natural Gas (CBNG) and Surface Coal 

Mine Development in the Powder River 

Basin. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-27 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2003b. BLM Instruction Memorandum No. 

2003-131 (IM 2003-131): Permitting Oil 

and Gas on Split Estate Lands and 

Guidance for Onshore Oil and Gas Order 

No. 1.

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2003c. Instruction Memorandum No. 2003-147, 

Application for Permit to Drill – Process 

Improvement #3 – Cultural Resources, 

April 14, 2003. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2003d. Powder River Basin Oil and Gas Project 

Final EIS and Proposed Plan 

Amendment. Available at: 

http://www.wy.blm.gov/nepa/prb-feis/. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2003e. SWQATR: Surface Water Quality 

Analysis Technical Report, report to 

accompany Final Montana Statewide 

CBNG EIS, Greystone Environmental 

Consultants and ALL Consultants, Jan 

2003. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2003f. Coal Bed Natural Gas APD and Project 

POD Guidance Manual, BLM Miles City 

Field Office, BLM/MT/GI-03/014, May 

28, 2003. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2004a. Coalbed Natural Gas Program Wildlife 

Monitoring and Protection Plan, 2004 

Annual Report. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2004b. Environmental Assessment for Powder 

River Gas, LLC, Coal Creek Project Plan 

of Development. United States 

Department of Interior, Bureau of Land 

Management, Miles City District Office. 

BLM-MT-020-2004-58. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2004c. Guidelines for Conducting Tribal 

Consultation. BLM Manual Handbook 

H-8120, December 3, 2004. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management. 

2005a. 2005 Montana/Dakotas Special Status 

Plant Species policy. Instruction 

memorandum No. MT-2005-055. 

Montana State Office, Billings, Montana. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2005b. Coalbed Natural Gas Program Wildlife 

Monitoring and Protection Plan, 2005 

Annual Report, draft. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2005c. Environmental Assessment for Fidelity 

Exploration & Production Co., Coal Bed 

Natural Gas, Tongue River - Coal Creek 

Project Plan of Development, Big Horn 

County, Montana,. United States 

Department of Interior, Bureau of Land 

Management, Miles City District Office. 

BLM-MT-020-2004-297. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2005d. Environmental Assessment for Fidelity 

Exploration & Production Co., Coal Bed 

Natural Gas, Tongue River- Deer Creek 

North Project and Pond Creek Project 

Plans of Development, Big Horn County, 

Montana. United States Department of 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management, 

Miles City District Office. BLM-MT020-2005-0155. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management. 

2005e. Task 3C Report for the Powder River 

Basin Coal Review Cumulative Social 

and Economic Effects Report. BLM 

Casper Field Office and Wyoming State 

Office. December 2005. Denver, 

Colorado. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management 

2006. BLM Instruction Memorandum No. 

2006-153 (IM 2006-153): Policy and 

Guidance on Conflicts between Coalbed 

Natural Gas (CBNG) and Surface Coal 

Mine Development in the Powder River 

Basin. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management. 

2007. Supplemental Air Quality Analysis to the 

Draft Supplement to the Montana 

Statewide Oil and Gas Environmental 

Impact Statement and Amendment of the 

Powder River and Billings Resource 

Management Plans. November 2007. 

USDI Bureau of Land Management. 

2008. National Environmental Policy Act 

Handbook (H-1790-1), 174 pgs. 

(http://www.blm.gov/style/medialib/blm/

wo/Information_Resources_Managment/

policy/blm_handbook.Par.24487.File.dat

/h1790-1-2008-1.pdf 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-28 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

1978. Terrestrial habitat evaluation criteria 

handbook Ecoregion M3113, South 

Rocky Mountains. U.S. Department of 

the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

1980. Rosebud Creek Study, Northern 

Cheyenne Indian Reservation. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

1986. Whooping crane recovery plan. U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, Albuquerque, NM. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

1988. Black-footed ferret recovery plan. 

Denver, CO. 154 pp. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

1990. Draft Guidelines for Oil and Gas 

Activities in Prairie Dog Ecosystems 

Managed for Black-footed ferret 

Recovery. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

1993. Final recovery plan for the pallid 

sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus). 

Denver, CO. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

1994a. Final rule: Endangered and threatened 

wildlife and plants; establishment of a 

nonessential experimental population of 

gray wolves in central Idaho and 

southwestern Montana. RIN 1018-AC86. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

1994b. Notice of 90-day finding on the petition 

to list the sturgeon chub and sicklefin 

chub as endangered. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

1994c. Notice of 12-month petition finding: 

Endangered and threatened wildlife and 

plants; finding on a petition to list the 

fluvial population of the arctic grayling 

as endangered. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

1995. Ute ladies’-tresses (Spiranthes diluvialis) 

agency review draft recovery plan, 1995. 

Prepared by the Ute ladies’-tresses 

recovery team for Region 6, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, Denver, CO. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

2001. Letter from Mr. R. Mark Wilson, Field 

Supervisor, Montana field Office, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, to Mr. Larry 

Rau, Bureau of Land Management, 

Montana City Field Office, regarding 

impacts of the proposed action on 

threatened, endangered, and proposed 

species. April 17, 2001. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

2002. Letter from Mr. R. Mark Wilson, Field 

Supervisor, MTFO, USFWS, to BLM, 

Miles City Field Office, regarding 

biological and conference opinions on 

impacts of the proposed action on 

threatened and endangered species. 

September 1, 2002. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

2002a. Division of Migratory Bird Management. 

Birds of Conservation Concern 2002. 

December, 2002. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

2003. Endangered and threatened wildlife and 

plants; withdrawal of the proposed rule 

to list the mountain plover as threatened. 

Federal Register 68(174):53083-53101. 

September 9, 2003. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

2004. Endangered and threatened wildlife and 

plants; finding for the resubmitted 

petition to list the black-tailed prairie dog 

as threatened. Federal Register 

69(159):51217-51226. August 18, 2004. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service, Nez Perce Tribe, 

National Park Service, Montana Fish, 

Wildlife, and Parks, Idaho Fish and 

Game, and USDA Wildlife Services 

 2005. Rocky Mountain Wolf Recovery 2004 

Annual Report. D. Boyd, ed. USFWS, 

Helena, MT. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

2005a. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to review 

status of Yellowstone cutthroat trout. 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

announcement 05-61. 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

2005b. Status review completed: greater sagegrouse not warranted for listing as 

endangered or threatened. News Release, 

January 7, 2005 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-29 

USDI Fish and Wildlife Service 

2005c. Endangered and threatened wildlife and 

plants; 12-month finding for petitions to 

list the greater sage-grouse as threatened 

or endangered. Federal Register 

70(8):2244-2282. January 12, 2005 

USDI Minerals Management Service 

2001. USDI website at http://

www.mrm.mms.gov/Stats/statsrm.htm,

accessed 2001. 

USDI Minerals Management Service 

2006. MRM Statistical Information Website at 

http://www.mrm.mms.gov/MRMWebSta

ts/StateAndOffshoreRegions.aspx?state=

MT&yeartype =FY&year=2005 

<January 5 and March 27, 2006>. 

USDI National Park Service 

2002. Intermountain Region. Letter to BLM 

Buffalo Field Office regarding comments 

on the preliminary FEIS and the 

Technical Support Document for the 

Powder River Basin Oil and Gas Project. 

December 2, 2002. 

USDL 

See U.S. Department of Labor. 

U.S. Department of Labor 

1999. U.S. Department of Labor Website 

www.dol.gov. 

U.S. District Court 

2000. See September 21, 2000 order in Friends 

of the Wild Swan, et al., v. U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency, et al., 

CV 97-35-M-DWM, U.S. District Court 

for the District of Montana, Missoula 

Division. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

1990. Superfund National Oil and Hazardous 

Substances Pollution Contingency Plan. 

40CFR 300, Subchapter J. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

1997a. National Air Toxics Information 

Clearinghouse (NATICH) Database. 

Office of Air Quality Planning and 

Standards. Research Triangle Park, NC. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

1997b. Integrated Risk Information System 

(IRIS) Database. Office of Air Quality 

Planning and Standards. Research 

Triangle Park, NC. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

2001. Office of Water. Economic Impact 

Analysis of Disposal Options for 

Produced Waters from Coalbed Methane 

Operations in EPA Region 8. U.S. EPA 

Public Meeting, Billings, Montana. 

September 25, 2001. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

2002. Letter from Robert E. Roberts, EPA 

Regional Administrator, “EPA’s Review 

of the statewide Draft Oil and Gas 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Amendment of the Powder River and 

Billings Resource Management Plans, 

(CEQ #020060). 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

2007a, Climate Change – Science 

(www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/sta

teofknowlage.html) 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 

2008a, Knowledge Building Series Climate 

Change 101 (USEPA: 908-F-08-003) 

(www.epa.gov/region8/climatechange/Cl

imateChange101FINAL.pdf) 

U.S. Geological Survey

 Coal Fields of the Conterminous United 

States, Open File Report 96-92. 

U.S. Geological Survey 

1963. Mineral and Water Resources of 

Montana: Report of the United States 

Geological Survey. In collaboration with 

Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology. 

Prepared at the request of Senator Lee 

Metcalf of Montana of the Committee on 

Interior and Insular Affairs, United 

States Senate. P. 46. 

U.S. Geological Survey 

1995. Estimated Use of Water in the United 

States in 1995, USGS Circular 1200, 

1996. 

U.S. Geological Survey 

1998. Fort Union Coal Assessment Team. U.S. 

Geological Survey Professional Paper 

1625-A, Resource Assessment of 

Selected Tertiary Coal Beds and Zones 

in the Northern Rocky Mountains and 

Great Plains Region. 

U.S. Geological Survey 

1999. Fort Union Coal Assessment Team. U.S. 

Geological Survey Professional paper 

1625-A, Resource Assessment of 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-30 

Selected Tertiary Coal Beds and Zones 

in the Northern Rocky Mountains and 

Great Plains Region. 

U.S. Geological Survey 

2000. Coal bed methane: potential and 

concerns, USGS Fact Sheet, FS-123-00, 

October. 

U.S. Geological Survey 

2001. USGS Water Resources Database. 

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mt/nwis/month

ly?search_criteria=huc_cd&submitted_fo

rm=introduction <April 2001>. 

U.S. Geological Survey 

2002. Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas 

Resources of the Powder River Basin 

Province of Wyoming and Montana, 

USGS Fact Sheet FS-146-02, November. 

U.S. Geological Survey 

2004. Powder River Basin Assessment Team 

USGS Digital Data Series, DDS-69-C. 

Total Petroleum System and Assessment 

of Coalbed Gas in the Powder River 

Basin Province, Wyoming and Montana. 

U.S. Geological Survey 

2005. Summary of water-quality data for sites 

in the Tongue River surface-waterquality monitoring network, March - 

October 2004 irrigation season. 

http://tonguerivermonitoring.cr.usgs.gov/

2004waterqualitysummary.htm <April 

11, 2006>. 

U.S. Geological Survey 

2005a. Powder River fish sampling data. 

Preliminary unpublished data collected 

by U.S. Geological Survey, Cheyenne, 

Wyoming. 

U.S. Geological Survey

2008a. National Water Information System: 

Web Interface - USGS 06308500 Tongue 

River at Miles City MT. 

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mt/nwis/uv?dd

_cd=02,03,06,20&format=gif&period=7

&site_no=06308500 

U.S. Geological Survey 

2008. The Challenges of Linking Carbon 

Emissions, Atmospheric Greenhouse Gas 

Concentrations, Global Warming, and 

Consequential Impacts; May 14, 2008 

Memorandum from Mark D. Myers 

(USGS Director) to Fish and Wildlife 

Service; 

http://www.doi.gov/issues/polar_bears/M

emoFWS-PolarBears.PDF.

USGS 

See U.S. Geological Survey. 

U.S. Supreme Court 

1998. Syllabus Prepared by Reporter of 

Decisions No. 96-1829 Montana et al. v. 

Crow Tribe of Indians et al. Certiorari to 

the United States Court of Appeals for 

Ninth Circuit. 

U.S. Supreme Court 

1998. Montana et al. v. Crow Tribe of Indians 

et al., certiorari to the United States 

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 

No. 96—1829. Argued February 24, 

1998–Decided May 18, 1998. 

Van der Zande, A. N., W. J. ter Keurs, and W. J. 

Van der Weijden 

1980. The impact of roads on the densities of 

four bird species in an open field 

habitat—evidence of a long distance 

effect. Biological Conservation 

18:299-321. 

Van Dyke, F.G., R.H. Brocke, and H.G. Shaw 

1986. “Use of road track counts as indices of 

mountain lion presence.” Journal of 

Wildlife Management. 50:102-109. 

Van Voast, W. A., and Jon C. Reiten 

1988. Hydrogeologic responses: Twenty years 

of surface coal mining in southeastern 

Montana: Montana Bureau of Mines and 

Geology. 

Van Voast, W. and Thale, P. 

2001. Anderson and Knobloch Coal Horizons 

and Potential for Methane Development, 

Powder River Basin, MBMG Map 60, 

2001. 

Vestjens, W.J.M 

1973. “Wildlife mortality on a road in New 

South Wales.” Emu. 73:107-12. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-31 

Wakkinen, W. L., K. P. Reese, and J. W. Connelly. 

1992. Sage grouse nest locations in relation to 

leks. Journal of Wildlife Management. 

56:381-383. 

Walker, B. 

2005. Wildlife Biology Program, University of 

Montana. E-mail correspondence dated 

December 1, 2005 to study cooperators 

regarding update on Powder River Basin 

sage-grouse/CBNG project.

Walker, B.L, D.E. Naugle, K.E. Doherty, and T.E. 

Cornish 

2004. From the field: outbreak of west Nile 

virus in greater sage-grouse and 

guidelines for monitoring, handling, and 

submitting dead birds. Wildlife Society 

Bulletin 32(3):1-7. 

Wallestad, R., and D. B. Pyrah 

1974. “Movements and nesting requirements of 

sage grouse hens in Central Montana.” 

Journal of Wildlife Management. 

38(4):630-633. 

Wallestad, R., and P. Schladweiler 

1975. “Breeding season movements and habitat 

use of male sage grouse in Central 

Montana.” Journal of Wildlife 

Management. 38(4):634-637. 

Wallwork, S. S. and Maxine Johnson 

1986. Natural resource development in 

Montana. Bureau of Business and 

Economic Research. University of 

Montana, Missoula, MT. 

Ward, A.L., J.J. Cupal, A.L. Lea, C.A. Oakley, and 

R.W. Weeks 

1973. “Elk behavior in relation to cattle 

grazing, forest recreation, and traffic.” 

Trans. N. Amer. Wildl. Nat. Resour. Conf. 

38:327-37. 

Weber, L. M. and B. H. Martin 

1991. “Piping plovers nest on dry and nearly 

dry alkaline wetlands in the northern 

Great Plains 1988-1990.” Prairie 

Naturalist. 23: 209. 

Weinstein, M. 

1978. Impact of Off-Road Vehicles on the 

Avifauna of Afton Canyon, California. 

Bureau of Land Management. 

Department of the Interior. Final Report 

#CA-060-CT7-2734. 

Wentland, H. J. 

1968. Summer range habits of the pronghorn 

antelope in central Montana with special 

reference to proposed sagebrush control 

study plots. M.S. thesis. Montana State 

University, Bozeman, MT. 

West Coat Environmental Law 

2003. Coalbed Methane: A Citizen’s Guide. 

May, 2003. 

Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC), 

2008a. MILES CITY FAA AIRPORT, 

MONTANA Monthly Average 

Temperature 

(http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/summary/Clim

smemt.html) 

Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC), 

2008b. BURGESS JUNCTION, WYOMING, 

Monthly Total Snowfall 

(http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/summary/Clim

smwy.html) 

Wheaton, J. and W. Van Voast 

1998. A quarter century of coal mining and 

hydrological research in southeastern 

Montana. National Meeting of the 

American Society for Surface Mining and 

Reclamation. St. Louis, MO. May 1998. 

Wheaton, J. and J. Metesh 

2001. Potential groundwater impacts from 

coal-bed methane development in 

portions of Montana. MBMG 

Administrative Report to U.S. Bureau of 

Land Management. 

Wheaton, J. and J. Metesh 

2002. “Potential Groundwater Drawdown and 

Recovery from Coal Bed Methane 

Development in the Powder River Basin, 

Montana,” MBMG Open-File Report 

458, May 2002. 

Wheaton, J.R. and T. A. Donato 

2004. Groundwater Monitoring Program in 

Perspective CBM Areas of Southeastern 

Montana Year One, Montana Bureau of 

Mines and Geology Open File Report 

508, 2004. 

Wheaton, J. and S. Reddish 

2005. Potential effects to ground-water systems 

resulting from subsurface injection of 

coalbed methane production water. 

Report to the Montana Department of 
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-32 

Environmental Quality and the Board of 

Environmental Review. Montana Bureau 

of Mines and Geology, December, 2005. 

(http://www.deq.state.mt.us/ber/Wheaton

CBMInjectionRpt.pdf). 

Wheaton, J.R., et al. 

2005. Stateline Ground-Water Monitoring 

Network for the Tongue River and 

Powder River Watersheds, Project 

Completion Report Contract # RIT0408653, Big Horn Conservation District 

and Montana Bureau of Mines and 

Geology, 2005. 

Wheaton, J.R. and T. Brown 

2005. Predicting Changes in Ground-Water 

Quality Associated with Coalbed 

Methane Infiltration Ponds, Western 

Resources Project End of Project Report. 

Wheaton, J., T. Donato, S. Reddish, and L. 

Hammer 

2006. 2005 Annual Coalbed Methane Regional 

Ground-water Monitoring Report: 

Northern Portion of the Powder River 

Basin. 

Williams, personal communication 

2006. Bruce Williams Fidelity Oil and Gas 

Exploration and Production Company, 

discussion with Dr. Bruce Langhus of 

ALL Consulting regarding the use of 

water well mitigation agreements to 

alleviate methane migration in the 

Powder River Basin. March 2006. 

Williams, J. and P. Diebel 

1996. “The economic value of prairie.” F.B. 

Samson and F.L. Knopf, eds. In: Prairie 

conservation preserving North America’s 

most endangered ecosystem. Island 

Press. Covelo, CA. 

Williams, B. 

2001. Personal communication between 

Mr. Williams/ V.P., Redstone and 

Dr. Langhus/ ALL-LLC. March 23, 2001. 

Wisdom, M.J., R.S. Holthausen, B.C. Wales, C.D. 

Hargis, V.A. Saab, D.C. Lee, W.J. Hann, 

T.D. Rich, M.M. Rowland, W.J. Murphy, 

and M.R. Eames 

2000. Source habitats for terrestrial vertebrates 

of focus in the interior Columbia basin: 

broad-scale trends and management 

implications. Volume 1—Overview. 

Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-485. 

Portland, OR. U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific 

Northwest Research Station. 3 vol. 

Wisdom, M.J., B.C. Wales, M.M. Rowland, M.G. 

Raphael, R.S. Holthausen, T.D. Rich, and 

V.A. Saab. 

2002. Performance of Greater Sage-Grouse 

Models for Conservation Assessment in 

the Interior Columbia Basin, U.S.A. 

Conservation Biology. 16:1232-1242. 

WOGCC

2001. Coal Bed Methane Production Statistics, 

WOGCC web site 

http://wogcc.state.wy.us/, November, 

2001. 

Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality 

2000. Water Quality Division. Concentrations 

of Barium in the Surface Waters in 

Northeastern Wyoming Related to 

Discharges of Coal Bed Methane 

Produced Water. December 1, 2000. 

Wyoming Game and Fish Department. 

n.d. Creating wetlands for wildlife with coal 

bed methane water. Sheridan, WY. 

Pamphlet. 

Wyoming Outdoor Counsel 

2001. Biodiversity Associates, Powder River 

Basin Resource Council and Oil and Gas 

Accountability Project. Protecting 

Wyoming's People, Land, Water and Air: 

a Citizen's Proposal to Conserve 

Wyoming's Heritage in the Powder River 

Basin. October 9, 2001. 

Yarmoloy, C., M. Bayer, and V. Geist. 

1988. “Behavior responses and reproduction of 

mule deer, Odocoileus herionus, does 

following experimental harassment with 

an all-terrain vehicle.” Canadian FieldNaturalist. 102:425-429. 

Yashan, Dean. 

2005. Personal communication between Andy 

Bobst of BLM (Miles City Field Office) 

and Dean Yashan of MDEQ. December 

8, 2005.

Youmans, H. B., and J. E. Swenson. 

1982. Winter distribution of habitat use by 

mule deer and white-tailed deer in 

southeastern Montana. Appendix to Big 

Game Survey and Inventory (Deer) 

Region Seven, Progress Report W-130-
BIBLIOGRAPHY 

 BIB-33 

R-13, Job 1-7. Montana Department of 

Fish, Wildlife and Parks. 

Zafft, D. 

2005a. Unpublished data, Wyoming Department 

of Game and Fish. 

Zafft, D. 

2005b. Personal communication between David 

Zafft/Wyoming Department of Game 

and Fish and Bob Sullivan/Parametrix. 

October 25, 2005. 

Zelt, Ronald B., Greg Boughton, Kirk A. Miller, 

Jon P. Mason, and Laura M. Gianakos. 

1999. Environmental setting of the Yellowstone 

River Basin, Montana, North Dakota, 

and Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey 

Water-Resources Investigations Report 

98-4269. 

Ziewitz, J. W., J. G. Sidle and J. J. Dinan. 

1992. “Habitat conservation for nesting least terns 

and piping plovers on the Platte River, 

Nebraska.” Prairie Naturalist. 24:1-20. 

Zou, L., Miller, S.N., Schmidtmann, E.T. 

2006. Mosquito larval habitat mapping using 

remote sensing and GIS: Implications of 

coalbed methane development and the 

West Nile Virus. J. of Medical 

Entomology 43(5):1034-1041.

ZurMuehlen, A. 

2001. Coalbed methane development: 

economic and social impacts of proposed 

development in the Powder River Basin 

of Montana. Anderson ZurMuehlen and 

Co., PC, Certified Public Accountants 

and Business Consultants. Billings MT. 

June 1, 2001.