Mar 12 2009
This week’s Hungry Horse News has a pretty good overview of the threats faced by Glacier National Park over the next few decades . . . In 1916 President Woodrow Wilson signed the “Organic Act” which created the National Park Service. In that bill, it said the Service has a purpose “to conserve the scenery [...]
Mar 07 2009
The Saturday, March 7, 2009 issue of the Daily Inter Lake has a pretty good overview of the current plan to remove gray wolves from the list of threatened and endangered species . . . There had been uncertainty about how the Obama administration would proceed, but Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Friday the decision [...]
Mar 07 2009
From the Saturday, March 7, 2009 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . . The Glacier Country Avalanche Center has issued a “high” avalanche advisory for the Glacier National Park and Flathead and Kootenai national forest areas. “We’re currently rating the avalanche danger as high on those steep, open slopes that have received [...]
Mar 06 2009
From the Friday, March 6, 2009 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . . Retired Forest Service brass and other prominent Montana citizens called on Montana’s congressional delegation Thursday to press for the establishment of additional wilderness areas in the state. The group said it believes that 26 years is too long since [...]
Mar 06 2009
From the Friday, March 6, 2009 online edition of the Flathead Beacon . . . Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Friday he was upholding a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and the western Great Lakes from the federal endangered list. Salazar said wolves would [...]
Mar 04 2009
As promised, Flathead County has set some money aside for a sort-of dust abatement co-pay plan. Trouble is, there aren’t many takers so far. The deadline is March 27th. From the March 4, 2009 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . . Residents who want to tap into Flathead County’s cost-sharing dust abatement [...]
