Source: https://citizenscienceguide.com/montana
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 10:47:14+00:00

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The Snow Survey and Water Forecasting Program is run through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (“USDA”) Natural Resources Conservation Service (“NRCS”), National Water and Climate Center. See Volunteer Snow Surveyors, CitizenScience.gov, https://www.citizenscience.gov/catalog/248/# (last visited Feb. 7, 2019). In Montana, these agencies educate citizens on data collection; the data is used to help forecast future water supplies based on snow pack and melt rates. See id.; see also Snow Telemetry (SNOTEL) and Snow Course Data and Products, Nat. Resources Conservation Serv., https://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snow/ (last visited Feb. 7, 2019).
The National Park Service manages the Glacier National Park Citizen Science Program in coordination with the Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center (“CCRLC”). Citizen Science, Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center, Nat’l Park Serv., https://www.nps.gov/rlc/crown/citizen-science.htm (last updated Aug. 23, 2017). The Program “engages park visitors, students, and staff in collection of scientific information that would otherwise be unavailable to resource managers and researchers.” See id. The two current citizen science projects under this Program are the Common Loon Citizen Science Project and High Country Citizen Science Project. See id.
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s (“DEQ”) Volunteer Monitoring Support Program supports volunteer water quality monitoring in several ways: (1) Financial support, such as the Volunteer Monitoring Lab Analysis Program; (2) Technical support, such as trainings and guidance documents; (3) Administering volunteer monitoring opportunities; and (4) Forming partnerships with other entities in the state that also support volunteer monitoring. See Monitoring Water Quality, Mont. Dep’t of Envtl. Quality, http://deq.mt.gov/Water/SurfaceWater/Monitoring (last visited Feb. 7, 2019). Under this grant program, DEQ helps fund the volunteer water quality monitoring group, Montana Watercourse. See Water Monitoring, Montana Water Center, http://www.montanawatercenter.org/water-monitoring (last visited Feb. 7, 2019).
(ii) received notice to depart but failed to do so.” Mont. Code Ann. § 81-30-103(2).
“Animal facility” includes “a vehicle, building, structure, research facility, or premises where an animal is lawfully kept, handled, housed, exhibited, bred, or offered for sale.” Id. § 81-30-102(2).
“(1) A person convicted of violating 81-30-103(2)(f) shall be fined not less than $50 or more than $500 or be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not to exceed 3 months, or both.
(2) A person convicted of an act that violates… (2)(a) through (2)(e) and that results in $500 or less in damage or destruction shall be fined not more than $500 or be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not to exceed 6 months, or both.
(3) A person convicted of an act that violates… (2)(a) through (2)(e) and that results in more than $500 in damage or destruction shall be fined not more than $50,000 or be imprisoned in the state prison for a term not to exceed 10 years, or both.” Id. § 81-30-105.
A permit is required to “take, kill, capture, and possess…any birds, fish, or animals protected by Montana law” for scientific purposes. Mont. Code Ann. § 87-2-806(1); see also Mont. Admin. R. 12.7.1301; Scientific Fish & Wildlife Permit Applications, Mont. Fish, Wildlife, & Parks, http://fwp.mt.gov/doingBusiness/licenses/scientificWildlife/ (last visited Feb. 7, 2019).
No. “[A] person commits the offense of criminal trespass to property if the person knowingly…enters or remains unlawfully in or upon the premises of another.” Mont. Code Ann. § 45-6-203(1)(b) (emphasis added).
“Privilege to enter or remain upon land is extended by [a landowner’s] explicit permission. . . or by the failure of the landowner . . . to post notice denying entry [.]” Id. § 45-6-201(1).
“(1) A person may not obstruct, impede, prevent, or otherwise interfere with a lawful aerial wildfire suppression response by a state or local government effort by any means, including by the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle system.
(2) A person who violates subsection (1) is liable for a civil penalty to the state or local government for an amount equivalent to the reasonable costs of obstructing, impeding, preventing, or interfering with an aerial wildfire suppression response effort. The penalty may not exceed the actual flight costs of the aerial wildfire suppression response effort that was obstructed, impeded, prevented, or interfered with.” Mont. Code Ann. § 76-13-214.
Local governments are prohibited from enacting “an ordinance governing the private use of an unmanned aerial vehicle in relation to a wildfire.” Mont. Code Ann. § 7-1-111(20).
(b) use occurs within an area specifically designated for such use by the park manager.” Mont. Admin. R. 12.8.816.
(2) This section does not apply to constitutionally protected activity.” Mont. Code Ann. § 45-5-220.
In accordance with judicially recognized exceptions to the warrant requirement.” Mont. Code Ann. § 46-5-109(1).
Montana’s Supreme Court clarified that information collected by private citizens, even in the course of a trespass, falls into the category of “judicially recognized exceptions to the warrant requirement,” unless they are acting as “agents of the state.” See State v. Christensen, 797 P.2d 893, 896–97 (Mont. 1990).
Requires certification that “the factual contentions have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, will likely have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery.” Mont. R. Civ. P. 11(b)(3).
“The requirement of authentication or identification as a condition precedent to admissibility is satisfied by evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims.” Mont. R. Evid. 901(a).
Montana Rule of Evidence 702 and Daubert standard, but only for novel science. See State v. Damon, 119 P.3d 1194, 1197-98 (Mont. 2005).

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