Sep 23 2009
A Canadian Press article posted yesterday evening . . . Environmentalists say a natural treasure in the United States is threatened by proposed coal and gold mining in southeastern B.C., and they’ll ask United Nations environmental experts later this week to put some pressure on the province to stop the developments. The UN environmental experts [...]
Sep 22 2009
We’re starting to see more complete news coverage of this week’s visit by a U.N. scientific delegation investigating mining and other resource development threats to Waterton-Glacier Park. The Missoulian posted an excellent article on the first day’s activities very early this morning. Here’s the lead-in . . . A team of scientists from the United [...]
Sep 21 2009
A UN delegation is scheduled to visit Glacier National Park this week and locations in the Canadian Flathead as part of UNESCO’s investigation into threats to Waterton-Glacier Park posed by coal mining and other proposed extractive activities. So far, the only recent news is a short, uninformative AP article. No further information yet. We’ll post [...]
Sep 17 2009
For those of you who wish to keep track of this season’s wolf hunt, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Has a web page, updated daily, showing the harvest status in the various “Wolf Management Units” throughout the state. The North Fork has its own special subunit with a limit of two wolves. Links . . [...]
Sep 14 2009
From today’s online edition of the Missoulian . . . Wolf advocates have opted not to appeal a federal court decision that let wolf hunting seasons proceed in Montana and Idaho. “We’re anxious to get to the merits of our case,” said Doug Honnold, lead attorney for EarthJustice, the law firm representing 14 environmental and [...]
Sep 14 2009
This item appeared in yesterday’s online edition of the Daily Inter Lake. Presumably, we will be getting more details over the next few days . . . Two scientists from the United Nations will visit Glacier National Park and Canada the week of Sept. 21 to see for themselves the potential impacts of mining in [...]
Sep 14 2009
Michael Jamison posted a nice article in yesterday’s online Missoulian on the Glacier Institute’s first 25 years . . . They call it “learning gone wild,” and if you could see the muddy boots and sunburned faces and briar-scratched hands, well, you’d know exactly what they were talking about. “It’s outdoor science education in one [...]
Sep 09 2009
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy ruled that wolf hunts in Montana and Idaho can continue pending results of a lawsuit brought by a coalition of environmental groups. Here is a selection of today’s press coverage . . . From the Daily Inter Lake: A federal judge said Wednesday that gray wolf hunts in the Northern [...]
Sep 01 2009
While both sides await the result of a request to stay the wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana, wolf tags went on sale in Montana and Idaho logged the first wolf kill of its hunting season. Here are the stories . . . Hundreds of hunters line up to get Montana wolf tags Idaho logs [...]
