Dec 29 2010
Larry Wilson’s column this week reports on the “sparkling” Christmas party held at Sondreson Hall last weekend, not to mention the people and the food that conspired to make it a successful event. Read it at the Hungry Horse News . . .
Dec 23 2010
This is actually a pretty good article from today’s Daily Inter Lake . . . A zoning proposal to limit the size of extractive industries on private land in the North Fork has failed for a second time to win approval from the Flathead County commissioners. A motion made on Wednesday by Commissioner Joe Brenneman [...]
Dec 22 2010
Larry Wilson’s column this week reminds everyone of the upcoming North Fork community Christmas party at Sondreson Hall and provides a nice retrospective on past events. It’s recommended reading, as usual. (And, no, I have no idea why Larry’s column is online sometimes and sometimes not. The Hungry Horse News follows its own, incrutable logic [...]
Dec 22 2010
It’s not looking good for the North Flathead Protection Act or any other Montana-related public lands legislation. The Missoulian has the story . . . Only the most uncontroversial and cost-free ideas appear to have a chance of passage during the final days of congressional land policy legislation, and that doesn’t include most Montana measures. [...]
Dec 21 2010
From today’s Metro, Calgary edition (see previous post for full text of letter mentioned here) . . . Eight former park superintendents are pressing the U.S. and Canadian governments to pass protection for areas adjacent to Glacier National Park in Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park just across the border. Read the full article . [...]
Dec 21 2010
From today’s Missoulian (see the previous post for the full text of the letter discussed here) . . . An alliance of veteran superintendents from Glacier and Waterton Lakes national parks has written a letter encouraging swift government action on a public lands bill that would finalize park protections introduced earlier this year. . . [...]
Dec 21 2010
(Note: This is the full text of a public letter signed by six former superintendents of Waterton and Glacier Parks encouraging the U.S. and Canadian governments to complete passage of legislation intended to enhance protections for the parks, including the U.S. North Flathead Protection Act currently stuck in a year-end Senate logjam.) One hundred years [...]
Dec 21 2010
This will raise the temperature of the wolf debate another notch . . . An environmental group filed notice Tuesday that it intends to sue the federal government to force adoption of a plan to recover gray wolves across the lower 48 states. Read the full article . . .
Dec 19 2010
It’s kind of quiet right now, so here’s an interesting story about a new “soft release” method Montana FWP is trying for returning orphaned bear cubs to the wild before they become too habituated to human presence. Sounds like it might just work . . . Erik Wenum can hardly see inside the small plywood [...]
Dec 18 2010
Well, it looks like that’s pretty much it for Jon Tester’s “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act” this year. The Associated Press has the story . . . U.S. Sen. Jon Tester’s bill to increase both logging and wilderness areas appears to be dead this Congress after the Senate abandoned a huge catchall spending measure that [...]
