Dec 14 2008
New site banner photo
Our nice, wintry site banner is provided courtesy of Rachel Potter. This photo was taken on the road to Big Prairie, looking across the North Fork of the Flathead River towards the Whitefish Range.
Archive for December, 2008
Dec 13 2008
County staff shortage affects snowplowing
From the Saturday, December 13, 2008 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
If you live in the far reaches of Flathead County, don’t hold your breath waiting for the snowplow to come.
The county road department has 8.5 fewer full-time employees to handle the road maintenance load this winter, and no “floaters” to [...]
Dec 11 2008
Helicopter skiing proposal rejected — for now
From the Thursday, December 11, 2008 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
The Stillwater State Forest, citing considerable public opposition, has denied a request to allow helicopter skiing on parts of the Whitefish Mountain Range.
Brian Manning, manager of the Stillwater and Coal Creek state forests, said his office received 316 comments, most [...]
Dec 07 2008
More on BP’s Mist Mountain coalbed methane project
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post regarding the Mist Mountain coalbed methane project, here are links to some additional information . . .
Our friends in Fernie, BC are not very happy about BP Canada’s plans. See the Citizens Concerned About Coalbed Methane site for details.
Wildsight posted a press release last Friday that does a good [...]
Dec 07 2008
Roy Duff
John Frederick reports . . .
Some of you never had the chance to meet Roy Duff because he hasn’t been to his cabin on Moose Creek for a long time. He died November 14.
When I saw Roy Duff, he used to say in a high-pitched voice out of the side of his mouth opposite to [...]
Dec 06 2008
Canadian Flathead left out of natural-gas deal
From the Saturday, December 6, 2008 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
BP Canada on Friday received natural-gas rights for a potential energy project in a segment of British Columbia watched closely by environmental activists in both the province and in Montana.
British Columbia granted the rights to BP for its proposed Mist [...]
Dec 05 2008
County sets aside $100,000 for dusty roads
The Thursday, December 4, 2008 online edition of the Hungry Horse News included a report on the November 20th meeting concerning the North Fork Road called by Commissioner Gary Hall. It is an interesting read. Although the meeting concentrated mostly on dust remediation and funding issues, there was another little gem of more immediate interest: [...]
Dec 04 2008
B.C. coal mine threat to trans-border trout: Scientists
Further information on the proposed Cline mine’s impact on bull trout from the Canada.com web site . . .
U.S. government scientists studying the Flathead River watershed straddling the B.C.-Montana border say they’ve discovered the prime spawning site for a threatened species of trout – on the Canadian side of the system, and in the very [...]
