Nov 26 2010
The Glacier Park Headquarters asbestos kerfuffle is over. Testing turned up no significant issues. However, headquarters personnel will remain scattered around other park facilities until the heating and air conditioning work is complete and to (cough) “provide employees with a construction dust free working environment.” They’ve rejiggered the phones, so you shouldn’t any trouble tracking [...]
Nov 22 2010
The Glacier National Park headquarters building is closed for a while, with personnel relocated to various other buildings in the area. Seems they’ve been installing a new heating, ventilation and air conditioning system and encountered what may be some asbestos. There’s no word on why the heck they were messing with the HVAC system this [...]
Nov 22 2010
The various House and Senate bills aimed at removing Wolves from the endangered species list in some western states are unlikely to go anywhere this year. From today’s Flathead Beacon . . . Lawmakers from the Northern Rockies say pending bills aimed at getting gray wolves off the endangered species list have little chance of [...]
Nov 22 2010
BP has climbed on the bandwagon, retiring their local oil and gas leases, including “a 394-acre parcel near the Polebridge entrance to Glacier National Park.” The Missoulian has the story . . . The oil company BP voluntarily gave up its rights to explore for energy along the western border of Glacier National Park, U.S. [...]
Nov 18 2010
From today’s Daily Inter Lake . . . The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the recent shooting of two wolves on the Flathead National Forest. The carcasses were found on the same day, Nov. 6, in different locations on the forest. One was found along Coal Creek Road in the North Fork Flathead [...]
Nov 16 2010
The Merc will be closed — at least, officially — from Dec 1, 2010 through Apr. 30, 2011. According to a letter Flannery & Stuart sent out a few days ago, ‘We will be working on the Merc – so please consider us “neighbors with benefits” regarding message service, emergency gas and anything else you [...]
Nov 03 2010
British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell announced his resignation today due to widespread dissatisfaction with recent tax policy. Perhaps “dissatisfaction” is too mild a word; his approval rating plummeted to nine percent. What’s the North Fork connection? Premier Campbell and Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer signed a Memorandum of Understanding last February banning mining and energy development [...]
