Jul 16 2009
Dan Testa has an excellent piece in the Flathead Beacon discussing trout studies in the North Fork — on both sides of the border — and the general importance of this sort of baseline study in connection with the upcoming UNESCO scientific mission to study threats to Waterton-Glacier Park. Here’s a sampler . . . [...]
Jul 14 2009
OK, it’s official. U.S. Senator Jon Tester will introduce his “forest jobs and stewardship bill” on Friday, July 17 during a 1 p.m. news conference at RY Timber in Townsend. The Missoulian has a brief write-up, including the obligatory, sound-bite quote . . . U.S. Sen. Jon Tester will introduce his much-anticipated bill designed to [...]
Jul 14 2009
According to today’s Missoulian, Sen. Jon Tester’s office is being a little more forthcoming this week about the wilderness bill he intends to announce Friday. See our previous post for background information. Here’s the lede . . . There may be more ideas than acres going into an anticipated wilderness bill under construction in Montana [...]
Jul 14 2009
The High Country News has a lengthy but excellent piece covering some of the background and thinking behind Sen. Jon Tester’s wilderness bill. Although it focuses on the Beavercreek-Deerlodge Partnership, the article includes lots of good supplementary information that helps put Tester’s plans in context. It takes very little reading between the lines to realize [...]
Jul 11 2009
The “Montana’s News Station” web site, which includes KPAX-TV in Missoula and KAJ in Kalispell, posted a short report on the planned World Heritage Committee investigation into threats to Waterton-Glacier Park . . . International scientists will visit the Flathead Valley in the fall to investigate potential threats to Waterton Glacier International Peace Park from [...]
Jul 10 2009
According to an article posted today at the Hungry Horse News web site, the Inside North Fork Road, after two-and-a-half years of dinking around, finally opened again this morning . . . Glacier National Park officials announced the opening of the Inside North Fork Road to all traffic as of mid-morning Friday, July 10. The [...]
Jul 10 2009
The Hungry Horse News posted photos from this year’s Fourth of July parade in Polebridge. Some new faces were in evidence, as well as many of the usual suspects. *Ahem* Surely a few of the NFPA members got photos. Hint, hint…
Jul 09 2009
The Clark Fork Chronicle reports that hunting licenses for Wolves go on sale in Montana on August 17. In northwest Montana, the Fish, Wildlife & Parks Commission set a quota of 41. Interestingly, the North Fork has a specific sub-quota of 2 wolves. As just about every article on the subject has mentioned, this year’s [...]
Jul 08 2009
The NFPA web site now has, heaven help us, a Twitter feed. So, if checking the web site or monitoring our news feed isn’t real-time enough for you, follow @nfpanews on Twitter.
Jul 08 2009
Surprise! A lot of folks are starting to grumble about the level of secrecy surrounding Senator John Tester’s wilderness planning. This may just be a case of Tester practicing the “art of the possible,” but expect some additional ideas to get tossed in his lap. In the North Fork area, the long-standing Winton Weydemeyer Wilderness [...]
