Aug 18 2009
By demand, here’s the latest on the “Old Man Lake female” grizzly bear. This article appeared in today’s online edition of the Missoulian . . . Three people are camped beneath the cliffs at Morning Star Lake, in the stone-cold shadow of Medicine Grizzly Peak. Unlike other Glacier National Park campers, these three are packing [...]
Aug 15 2009
Here’s a little, low-profile news item that should probably be getting more coverage. A new Ken Burns documentary series, “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” will start playing on PBS late next month. A sneak preview of the series will be shown in Whitefish August 29th and in Missoula on the 30th. Dayton Duncan, a [...]
Aug 15 2009
This is not strictly North Fork news, but is likely of interest to a lot of folks who follow this site. From Thursday’s online edition of the Missoulian . . . She’s up in the Nyack Creek wilderness right now, working huckleberry hillsides with her two cubs, but this old grizzly will come back. She [...]
Aug 13 2009
Here is the press release from last Tuesday’s visit to the North Fork by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, accompanied by Montana Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester. It’s also available online at 7thSpace Interactive. It’s worth reading. There are a few gems buried in the midst of the obligatory political verbiage. Salazar, Baucus, Tester Announce [...]
Aug 12 2009
The Missoulian introduced a redesigned web site this afternoon. Unfortunately, this screwed up every inbound link to their stories for the past several years, not to mention trashing external search engine results from outfits like Google. Apparently, we’ve got some teething problems here. It’s going to take quite a while to clean this up. In [...]
Aug 12 2009
The Missoulian covered yesterday’s visit to the North Fork by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar with a nice write-up and about five minutes of video. Here’s the lead-in . . . U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, on a swing through Montana to highlight water issues, came to the North Fork on Tuesday to see the confluence [...]
Aug 12 2009
Yesterday’s visit to the North Fork by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, accompanied by Montana Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester, and Chas Cartwright, superintendent of Glacier National Park, is getting lots of coverage. Here’s the lede from the Flathead Beacon’s write-up . . . Standing near the bridge below the confluence of the North Fork [...]
Aug 11 2009
Uh, oh. It appears the threat of a gold mining operation in the trans-boundary North Fork is growing. From today’s online edition of the Missoulian . . . Expanded gold exploration north of Glacier National Park has Montana interests worried about downstream environmental and economic impacts. “The mining company has apparently made a business decision [...]
Aug 11 2009
From today’s online edition of the Missoulian . . . The country’s national parks – iconic cultural emblems for millions – could hold the key for species protections in a warming world, according to a report released Monday. “This is a unique moment in time,” said Tom Kiernan, “to leverage the power of America’s national [...]
Aug 11 2009
Looks like Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, as well as both of Montana’s Senators will be visiting the North Fork today. There’s the story from the Missoulian . . . Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will travel into the remote North Fork Flathead River Valley on Tuesday, a watershed long threatened by mining proposals from the Canadian [...]
