North Fork Preservation Association

By a 4-3 margin Wednesday, the Flathead County Planning Board voted against a recommendation for a new North Fork Neighborhood Plan, despite overwhelming support by North Fork residents.

Chris Servheen, mammologist and wildlife biologist at the University of Montana and grizzly bear recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, will receive the 2008 George B. Rabb Conservation Award Jan. 29 from the Chicago Zoological Society.

Canadian regulators say potential coal and gas projects north of Glacier National Park face many hurdles, including regulatory review.

Tags: BC, BP, BP Canada, British Columbia, British Petroleum, Canadian Flathead, Cline Mining, coal mining, coal-bed methane, coalbed methane

Lake County Republicans and Democrats have agreed to agree on something other than dates and times for candidate forums. In what the county chairmen for both parties say may be an unprecedented move, the two sides have come together to craft a joint resolution expressing

The section of the Rocky Mountains that straddles the Canada-U.S. border has long been recognized as a region of outstanding biological diversity, often referred to as the Crown of the Continent ecosystem. But few British Columbians realize that their province owns a share of this treasure in the form of the little-known Flathead Valley.

This excellent article on resource extraction threats to the Canadian Flathead appeared in the Wednesday, January 2, 2008 edition of The Tyee, an online daily based in British Columbia. This is part one of two. The second deals with efforts to establish the Flathead as a national park.

About $886,000 in funding was secured by U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester to fully study the environmental impact of proposed mines in the Canadian Flathead.

Flathead County residents are demanding more paved roads, but county officials say the money isn’t available to put down more asphalt.