By David Erickson, Missoulian/Montana Right Now
If her neighbors hadn’t alerted her, Hannah Talbott wouldn’t even know that a Missoula contracting company plans to build an asphalt plant and remove a million cubic yards of gravel from a field just down the road from her house near Arlee.
She lives a little bit farther than a half-mile from the proposed site, so she didn’t get a notice and she has no way of officially protesting the application. She strongly believes the traffic, dust and noise from the operation will affect the entire northern portion of the rural Jocko Valley where she lives.
