North Fork Preservation Association

From the Wednesday, February 4, 2009 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is closing in on two waterfront land acquisitions with Bonneville Power Administration funding.
A 245-acre parcel of undeveloped land along Foy’s Bend on the Flathead River south of Kalispell is being purchased for just more than [...]

Tags: Hay Creek, North Fork Flathead River

Here’s a curiousity. Just a year ago, Bill Bennett, British Columbia’s mining minister, was forced to resign due to some wildly intemperate remarks regarding opposition to resource development in the Canadian Flathead. Bennett, now Tourism, Culture and Arts Minister, is at it again. This time, he was responding to a Fernie area tourism operator accusing [...]

Tags: BC, Bill Bennett, British Columbia, coal-bed methane, coalbed methane, Fernie

From the Saturday, January 31, 2009 online edition of the Calgary Herald . . .
Conservation groups are renewing calls for Waterton Lakes National Park to be expanded into the Flathead River Valley, despite British Columbia’s decision to close the door to coal bed methane development in the ecologically key area in southeastern B.C.
The Sierra Club, [...]

Tags: BC, British Columbia, Canadian Flathead, Cline Mining, coal mining, coalbed methane, Flathead River Valley, Mist Mountain Project, strip mining, Waterton Lakes National Park, Waterton Park, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park