Oct 29 2009
This article from today’s Hungry Horse News offers a little more information about the October 9th wolf poaching incident near Whale Creek . . .
A Columbia Falls man has pleaded guilty to poaching two wolves near Whale Creek up the North Fork.
Randy Houk, whose age wasn’t released, paid fines totaling $1,135.
Fish, Wildlife and Parks is [...]
Oct 29 2009
From today’s online edition of the Missoulian . . .
Federal officials did a good job of balancing road work and grizzly bears in the Flathead National Forest, according to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
“It’s a very significant victory for us,” Flathead forest planning staff officer Rob Carlin said Wednesday. “It supports us in [...]
Oct 28 2009
From yesterday’s Flathead Beacon . . .
Wildlife officials say a Columbia Falls man has been cited for killing two wolves during a closed season in northwestern Montana.
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks wardens say the wolves were shot and left along Whale Creek Road in the North Fork Flathead drainage on Oct. 9.
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Oct 28 2009
From yesterday’s Flathead Beacon . . .
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester says fellow Montana Sen. Max Baucus has co-signed a proposal to both add more wilderness and require more logging on federal land.
Tester made the announcement Monday during a public meeting in Missoula meant to answer questions about the “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act.”
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Oct 28 2009
From the Wednesday, October 14, 2009 online edition of the Hungry Horse News . . .
There’s a renewed push for wilderness in the North Fork. Headwaters Montana, a relatively new conservation group has released a plan for land conservation on both sides of the border.
Tucked in that plan is a call for 140,000 acres of [...]
Oct 28 2009
Although the Missoulian posted some initial coverage of last month’s visit by a U.N. scientific delegation investigating mining and other resource development threats to Waterton-Glacier Park, the only local paper that paid significant attention to the subject was the Hungry Horse News — a fact that slipped past your friendly webweenie.
Herewith are lead-ins and links [...]
