Dec 29 2009
The Missoulian has a good year-end review of Montana’s first wolf hunt.
Here are a few tidbits culled from the article…
The wolf hunt accounted for just over a third of the wolves killed during the past year. Poaching, “control actions” and other events accounted for the rest.
Eleven wolves were taken in Flathead County, the highest single-county [...]
Dec 27 2009
The Daily Inter Lake has traditionally made a real effort to stay on top of fire season news. Today, they posted a retrospective of the biggest fire seasons of the last decade, all of which, especially the 2001 and 2003 blow-ups, had a big impact on the North Fork.
Here are the links . . .
‘Mega-fires’ [...]
Dec 25 2009
Here’s an item your friendly web-weenie meant to post earlier. Alas, the press of business sometimes interferes with such things…
The resource development threats to the Canadian Flathead, and the Trans-boundary Flathead in general, have become a bit of a cause célèbre. Enough so, that they were a significant point of concern at the 9th World [...]
Dec 23 2009
Congressman Denny Rehberg is still testing the waters when it comes to taking a position on Senator Jon Tester’s “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act.” Rehberg has lined up five “listening sessions” on the proposal at various sites around Montana.
Read the press release for details.
Dec 19 2009
It’s official. As of yesterday, most roads in Glacier Park are closed to motorized travel until the snow comes off in the spring. For North Forkers, this means that Camas Road is closed, so no cutting through the park for the next few months.
For more details, including information on road closures, winter entrance fees and [...]
Dec 17 2009
An AP article posted in today’s Missoulian summarizes some of the concerns with Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act expressed by Agriculture Undersecretary Harris Sherman during today’s hearings on the bill. (Sherman is the Forest Service’s boss.) This is one of those read-between-the-lines articles, not to be taken entirely at face value. Nevertheless, [...]
Dec 17 2009
From today’s Flathead Beacon . . .
The governor says he is backing U.S. Sen. Jon Tester’s plan to both create more wilderness and mandate more logging.
Gov. Brian Schweitzer, a Democrat, submitted the testimony in advance of Thursday’s hearing on the bill in the U.S. Senate. He says it will create good jobs with more logging.
Read [...]
Dec 15 2009
Yesterday’s New York Times carried coverage, with a minimum of snark, on Senator Jon Tester’s proposed “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act” bill. The article includes a pretty good discussion of the issues likely to be covered during the upcoming hearings on the bill, which are scheduled for this Thursday.
Trying to satisfy everyone from wilderness advocates [...]
Dec 13 2009
This story posted to last Friday’s Great Falls Tribune has some additional information on potential gold mining activity in the Canadian Flathead . . .
U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester on Thursday urged U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to help them stop continued gold exploration north of Glacier National Park in Canada.
The Montana [...]
Dec 10 2009
From an AP article posted to today’s Flathead Beacon . . .
An examination of Montana’s first public gray wolf hunt showed at least nine of the animals were killed in an area prone to livestock attacks — a finding that could blunt criticism that the hunt was ineffective.
Confident state wildlife officials said they could increase [...]
