U.S. Customs and Border Protection Struggles to Staff Montana Border

By Anne Medley, 11-27-07

This morning's hand-picked headlines from in, around and about Missoula...

• The Helena Independent Record reports that U.S. Customs and Border Protection is struggling to fill positions along Montana’s northern border due, in part, to remote assignments and slow hiring practices.
  
  
• The U.S. Geological Survey recorded a small earthquake in the Grass Range area late Sunday night, according to the Billings Gazette .
  
  
• The Missoulian reports that some conservationists are working to pressure the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider its decision to deny protection to the last remaining population of native, river-dwelling arctic grayling in Montana. [End of article]