Archive for December, 2008

Dec 14 2008

New site banner photo

Published by nfpa under Site Updates

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.

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Dec 13 2008

County staff shortage affects snowplowing

Published by nfpa under News

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 [...]

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Dec 11 2008

Helicopter skiing proposal rejected — for now

Published by nfpa under Environmental Issues, News

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 [...]

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Dec 07 2008

More on BP’s Mist Mountain coalbed methane project

Published by nfpa under Environmental Issues

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 [...]

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Dec 07 2008

Roy Duff

Published by nfpa under News

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 [...]

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Dec 06 2008

Canadian Flathead left out of natural-gas deal

Published by nfpa under Environmental Issues, News

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 [...]

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Dec 05 2008

County sets aside $100,000 for dusty roads

Published by nfpa under News

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: [...]

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Dec 04 2008

B.C. coal mine threat to trans-border trout: Scientists

Published by nfpa under Environmental Issues, News

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 [...]

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