Jun 29 2009
The Summer 2009 NFPA Newsletter just went to the printer. Those of you itching to get your hands on it right away can view it online. Items of note include a status report on the UNESCO investigation into threats to Waterton-Glacier Park, an article by Cristina Eisenberg on the far-reaching and surprising effects on the [...]
Jun 28 2009
I saw this mentioned in a post on the Waterton-Glacier Endangered web log. Florian Schulz posted a nice commentary on the risks faced by Waterton-Glacier due to resource development in the Canadian Flathead, accompanied by a gorgeous set of photos. Recommended for the photography alone, much less the post itself.
Jun 26 2009
The Vancouver Sun has a couple of pieces up on the decision by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to investigate threats to Waterton-Glacier Park. There is a basic heads-up article and a short pictorial. The Tyee also has a pretty decent write-up with some handy links to related material. There’s an AP/Canadian Press article making [...]
Jun 26 2009
From a “Breaking News” post in today’s online edition of the Missoulian . . . UNESCO will send a mission to Canada to judge for itself the threat posed by a planned Canadian coal mine to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. The group’s World Heritage Commission, meeting in Seville, Spain, voted Friday to send the delegation, [...]
Jun 26 2009
The Flathead Beacon has picked up on the story about the UNESCO World Heritage Committee’s decision to send a delegation to investigate threats to Waterton-Glacier Park. Here’s the lead-in from a nicely written article by Dan Testa . . . The United Nations plans to send a fact-finding mission to Canada to investigate environmental threats [...]
Jun 26 2009
According to the Waterton-Glacier in Danger web log, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has voted unanimously to send a delegation to investigate threats to Waterton-Glacier Park posed by resource development activities. Here’s the lead-in from the press release. See the Waterton-Glacier in Danger site for details and breaking news . . . Seville, Spain–UNESCO’s World Heritage [...]
Jun 25 2009
Wth fire season approaching, this article that appeared in today’s Daily Inter Lake might be worth checking out . . . Timberland owners in Northwest Montana have an “unprecedented” opportunity for free fuels reduction work with federal stimulus funding being offered through the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation. The department is accepting grant [...]
Jun 24 2009
Planning on a float trip down the North Fork? Better check the new regulations in effect this year. They cover such things as trash disposal (including — *ahem* — “solid human waste”), safety equipment and fire restrictions. More information is available on the Flathead National Forest web site and in a press release titled “
Jun 23 2009
Today’s post on the Waterton-Glacier Endangered web log includes information on the UN World Heritage Committee draft resolution concerning the dangers posed to Waterton and Glacier parks by resource extraction in the Flathead headwaters region — the proposed Cline Mine, in particular. According to the posting, the first draft of the resolution does not explicitly [...]
Jun 22 2009
In case you missed it on the read-through of the article linked in the previous post, Will Hammerquist of the NPCA and Ryland Nelson of Wildsight “…have established a new Web site, savewatertonglacier.com, and will be blogging from Spain throughout the weeklong meeting, in addition to posting pictures and video from the conference.” There’s already [...]
