North Fork Preservation Association

Tasked with enforcing speed limits on Flathead County’s gravel thoroughfares, Sheriff’s Deputy Stewart Smith spends all day on the roads with the worst dust problems.

On Saturday, July 26, the annual meeting of the North Fork Preservation Association will be held at the Sondreson Community Hall at Whale Creek.

Polite diplomacy appears to be trumping the historic conversation of conflict between Canadian officials intent on mining energy resources and downstream residents worried the development could taint Montana waterways.

Despite a wet, prolonged spring, fire season has snuck in the back door. Over the weekend, crews from Flathead National Forest contained a wildland fire in the Whitefish Range.

A federal judge in Missoula has restored endangered species protections for gray wolves in the Northern Rockies, derailing plans by three states to hold public wolf hunts in the fall.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, legislation that protects some 219 miles of waterway on the Flathead National Forest.

Environmental groups concerned that Montana water may be threatened by potential coal-bed methane extraction and expanded coal mining in southeastern British Columbia took their concerns to Canada’s ambassador to the United States.

The Summer 2008 NFPA Newsletter is now available online.

There has been a lot concern over Plum Creek’s gradual shift from timber production to real estate development, particularly their recent negotiations with the Forest Service to expand permitted road easement use.

Michael Jamison, a journalist with the Missoulian, showed up at the 4th of July parade this year and filed a nice story on the festivities.