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‘Off-the-shelf wetlands’ firm poised for worldwide growth

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SHEPHERD — Since founding Floating Island International 12 years ago, Bruce Kania has achieved a lot of milestones. More than 7,000 of his man-made islands — he likes to call them “off-the-shelf wetlands” — have been sold around the world. He holds “a couple dozen” patents related to the floating island technology and he has six licensed manufacturers — three in the United States and one each in China, New Zealand the United Kingdom — making his patented BioHaven-brand islands. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Bruce and Anne Kania, Floating Island International, Rhyno Stinchfield, Shepherd, Wendy Davidoff

Late convert to hunting hoping to share her passion

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For most of her life, British-born Anne Kania had what she called a typical aversion to guns—typical among opera-singing, liberal-minded Englishwomen, anyway. She thought that guns were a barbaric throwback and that hunting was only for rednecks. When she first visited Montana to see Bruce Kania, the man she would eventually marry, her views began to change. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Culture, Diversions, Montana, Anne Kania, Bruce Kania, Floating Islands International, Joy of Hunting, Shepherd

Minnows vs. midges: A new way to fight wildlife disease

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Kania

Last year, Mike Penfold was hunting on the Marias River in north-central Montana. On his float down the river, the former state director of the Bureau of Land Management saw only one live white-tailed deer. “But there were so many dead ones,” he said. (more…) Continue Reading →

Filed under: Montana, News, Bill Snell, Billings Bench Water Association, Bruce Kania, Dan Vermillion, Fish Wildlife and Parks Commission, Floating Island International