Oct 31 2010
Patti Craig-Hart lit up a new web site this month called the North Fork News. It is, as she puts it, “an independent newsite with the goal of providing everyone who loves the North Fork with information that they can use to make their time in paradise more enjoyable and productive.” She’s got lots of [...]
Oct 31 2010
Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks wants to reintroduce mountain goats to the Whitefish Range where they were pretty much hunted out by the 1960s. The plan is to capture an initial population of about 15 goats from a large herd in the Crazy Mountains near Big Timber and release them near Stryker Mountain on the [...]
Oct 25 2010
This is going to stir things up. A just-released scientific study concludes that the wolf population is more than high enough to maintain genetic diversity throughout the Northern Rockies. This from the same team that earlier concluded that the wolf population in Yellowstone was genetically isolated, a finding used to argue against removing wolves from [...]
Oct 23 2010
Ben Lamb had an excellent guest commentary posted to last Wednesday’s New West. He’s lost patience with all the political posturing over wolf management. It’s an entertaining read . . . The political wrangling over wolves since the latest relisting in August is now in full force. It’s unfortunate that we’ve arrived at a place [...]
Oct 20 2010
Despite broad-based support from North Fork residents and landowners, the Flathead County Commissioners decided not to decide on a zoning amendment that would restrict the size of “extractive industries” (gravel pits, basically) in the North Fork. The Daily Inter Lake has a good write-up, including a fair bit of background information . . . A [...]
Oct 17 2010
The Flathead County Commissioners will consider a zoning change for the North Fork District this Tuesday concerning “extractive industries.” For the North Fork, this amounts to regulating the size of gravel pit operations. The proposed zoning regulation would limit gravel operations on private land (the county has no jurisdiction over the feds) to five acres [...]
Oct 13 2010
Larry Wilson’s “North Fork Views” column in this week’s Hungry Horse News heaps well-deserved praise on the Polebridge Mercantile and Northern Lights Café and their new owners. As usual, Larry’s column is recommended reading.
Oct 09 2010
A bit of excitement just north of Polebridge. The Daily Inter Lake has the story . . . A Polebridge man was arrested Thursday after allegedly assaulting a neighbor and later setting fire to the man’s outhouse and shelter. Kent Royce Johnson, 60, has been charged with felony arson and misdemeanor assault following the apparent [...]
Oct 07 2010
Wolves have been getting enough press the last couple of days to turn a seasoned PR flack green with envy. Here’s an overview of the more notable local and regional coverage . . . The Daily Inter Lake has a pretty good write-up on Rep. Denny Rehberg’s local hearing on the impact of relisting gray [...]
Oct 03 2010
An AP article posted to today’s Flathead Beacon surveys the various, competing proposals to remove wolves from the Endangered Species List. Must be an election coming up . . . Two decades after the federal government spent a half-million dollars to study the reintroduction of gray wolves to the Northern Rockies, lawmakers say it’s time [...]
