Mar 29 2009
Today’s Missoulian features a pretty good article on the current state of wolf populations throughout Montana and adjoining areas. The “hook” is the increased number of sightings near Missoula, but there is a lot of general information, as well.
Here’s the lead-in . . .
The howl of the wolf soon may be heard in Missoula.
Neighbors at [...]
Mar 28 2009
The North Fork Hostel and the Polebridge area got a nice write-up in the Helena Independent Record last Thursday . . .
I awoke to a thump-thump-thump sound of fresh spring snow blowing off the trees and landing on the metal roof.
It was morning in North Fork Country.
Situated next to Glacier National Park’s western boundary about [...]
Mar 27 2009
Some federal economic stimulus money will be allocated to projects in the Flathead National Forest. According to an article in today’s Daily Inter Lake, a “meeting at the Kalispell Chamber of Commerce from 7 to 9 a.m. April 15 will explain the funding as well as the scope and type of projects for which the [...]
Mar 25 2009
From the Monday, March 23, 2009 edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
Flathead County hopes to get money from the federal Secure Rural Schools Act this summer to make improvements on the North Fork and Star Meadows roads.
The county has asked for $175,000 in federal money to apply crushed rock on the North [...]
Mar 24 2009
It looks like mud season — er, uh… Spring — is on its way.
According to an article in the Flathead Beacon, “Grizzly and black bears are emerging from their dens in Glacier National Park.” If they are up and foraging for food in the park, we’ll likely be seeing them on the North Fork, too.
Glacier [...]
Mar 23 2009
The Outdoor Recreation Council of British Columbia (ORBC) started publishing a list of the most endangered rivers in the province in 2006. This year, the Flathead River is in the #1 spot, as it was in 2007, mostly because of the proposed Cline Coal Mine. An excerpt from today’s press release . . .
The Flathead [...]
Mar 19 2009
From the Thursday, March 19, 2009 online edition of the Flathead Beacon . . .
For the second time this year, the Senate has passed a long-delayed bill to set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness, from a California mountain range to a forest in Virginia.
The 77-20 vote on Thursday [...]
Mar 19 2009
G. George Ostrom pokes fun at Larry Wilson and the New York Times and comes up with an excuse to use “ululating” in this week’s Hungry Horse News. Oh… and he also says some nice things about the North Fork.
Read the article . . .
Mar 16 2009
OK, it looks like the Daily Mistake Inter Lake was in error the other day when they listed “a $4.1 million rebuild of the North Fork Road, with paving to the Camas entrance of Glacier National Park” as being on the Flathead County wish list for federal stimulus funds. According to a brief note from [...]
Mar 15 2009
The Tuesday, March 10, 2009 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake had an article on the Flathead County Commissioner’s wish list of projects for federal stimulus funds. This includes the following excerpt of interest to North Forkers:
…Roads figure heavily into the county’s proposed stimulus projects.
Among the most expensive road projects on the list is [...]
