Feb 06 2012
Passed along by John Frederick . . . Want to write about wildness or the wild? Here is a request for submissions to the Whitefish Review from Christina Eisenberg, soon to be Dr. Eisenberg, who recently studied wolves in the North Fork. This is a call for submissions on wildness for the Whitefish Review… I [...]
Feb 03 2012
From today’s Missoulian . . . The U.S. Forest Service wants to speed up work on national forests, for both timber production and forest health. “Collaboration is most effective in getting forests managed in a proper way,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said during a conference call on Thursday. “We want to move beyond the conflicts [...]
Feb 01 2012
Here is a little more detail on the closure of the wolf hunt in the North Fork area, as well as general hunt status in this corner of Montana . . . A wolf hunting district covering the North Fork Flathead drainage has been closed by the state because the district’s wolf quota recently was [...]
Jan 31 2012
Scott Emmerich, North Fork District Ranger, sent out the following announcement a couple of days ago concerning the upcoming Interlocal Meeting in Glacier Park . . . We’re trying to go “paperless” with our Interlocal Meeting notifications this winter. It would be helpful to me if you’d spread the word to those in your [...]
Jan 31 2012
The wolf hunt is officially over for the North Fork and environs. Here is the press release . . . The hunting of all wolves in Montana Wolf Management Unit 110 which includes portions of Lincoln and Flathead Counties, in northwestern Montana, will close Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at one half-hour after sunset. The order [...]
Jan 27 2012
First the grizzlies started moving back out onto the high plains, now a young male wolf called “OR7″ has wandered into California. California being California, it’s a big deal. The New York Times has the story. It includes some pointed observations by Ed Bangs, the recently retired U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wolf recovery coordinator [...]
Jan 27 2012
Here’s a pretty useful write-up on the proposed new national forest planning rule. Or, for those of you who like to read source documents, the official U.S. Forest Service press release and a link to the (take a deep breath) “Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the National Forest System Land Management Planning Rule” [...]
Jan 26 2012
A shiny, new set of national forest management rules are due to take effect in early March . . . The Obama administration says new rules to manage nearly 200 million acres of national forests will protect watersheds and wildlife while promoting uses ranging from recreation to logging. The new rules, to replace guidelines thrown [...]
Jan 15 2012
Here’s a little North Fork area search and rescue action . . . Two cross-country skiers were rescued Sunday from the remote North Fork area of Glacier National Park after spending the night lost and stranded in the backcountry during a winter storm. A husband and wife from Kalispell, ages 46 and 39 respectively, sent [...]
Jan 15 2012
Well, we can’t go too many weeks without talking about the darn road. So, here’s the latest, courtesy of the Daily Inter Lake. The item of most direct interest to North Forkers is that the county will probably start taking applications for this summer’s dust control cost-share program in February . . . The work [...]
