Jun 30 2010
Those of you accustomed to looping through Glacier Park to avoid the southern part of the North Fork Road may encounter some delays this summer. They will be chip sealing just about all the pavement in the park, with the exception of Going-to-the-Sun Road. They’ll also be doing road striping and some clean-up work. Chip [...]
Jun 29 2010
Here’s an insightful follow-up article on last weekend’s Western governors meeting, written by Michael Jamison and posted to the Missoulian’s website early this morning . . . A plan to forever protect Canadian wildlands north of Glacier National Park — and to pay for those protections — is slowly taking shape, cobbled together by an [...]
Jun 29 2010
Here’s the Associated Press take on last weekend’s Western governors meeting in Whitefish. This story is getting some national coverage. From yesterday’s Billings Gazette . . . Gov. Brian Schweitzer isn’t done jousting with federal officials over a deal with Canada to protect the area surrounding Glacier National Park. Montana’s governor used the bully pulpit [...]
Jun 29 2010
Coverage of last weekend’s western governor’s conference in Whitefish from the Flathead Beacon . . . Gov. Brian Schweitzer called on Montana’s federal delegation Sunday to support legislation by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, dedicated to restoring the Columbia River Basin, as a way to fund commitments in the agreement between Montana and British Columbia to [...]
Jun 29 2010
Posted late yesterday evening to the Missoulian . . . No park is an island. That was the message from Whitefish, where governors from Western states met early this week to discuss, among other things, how to protect wildlife and ecosystems that span jurisdictional boundaries. Montana shares borders with Idaho, and with Wyoming and the [...]
Jun 23 2010
From todays’ Flathead Beacon, more fussing about the July deadline for implementing the provisions of the memorandum of understanding signed by Montana Gov. Schweitzer and BC Premier Campbell during the Winter Olympics . . . The historic agreement banning natural resource development along the North Fork Flathead River, signed by Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and [...]
Jun 18 2010
From today’s Missoulian. Recommended reading . . . An agreement to protect the American and Canadian sides of the Flathead River Basin from mining and energy extraction is holding together, even though snags have developed in financing the deal. Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer met with British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell in Victoria on Wednesday and [...]
Jun 17 2010
From today’s Flathead Beacon . . . U.S. Sen. Jon Tester released some changes Thursday to his logging and wilderness bill, beating back a Washington, D.C.-based rewrite of the carefully crafted Montana compromise. Read the full article . . .
Jun 15 2010
From today’s Daily Inter Lake . . . The Flathead National Forest is launching a series of federal stimulus projects this summer, some of which will cause temporary access changes across the forest. “We are doing so much improvements that the public is going to like this and appreciate it. They will be very noticeable,” [...]
Jun 15 2010
There were no surprises in the first day of the hearing on whether gray wolves should be placed back under the Endangered Species Act in Montana and Idaho. Both sides presented the expected arguments. Here’s the lead-in from a relevant AP story. . . A federal judge heard arguments Tuesday on whether gray wolves in [...]
