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Summer 2010 NFPA newsletter now available online

nfpa — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:12:05 +0000

For those of you who can’t wait on the mail, the North Fork Preservation Association Summer 2010 Newsletter is now available online in the Newsletters section of the website. Enjoy!

Webmaster emerges from hibernation

nfpa — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 02:52:12 +0000

Sorry about the hiatus in postings, folks. As some of you know, I run a small consulting firm, specializing in computer and network support for small businesses. This makes me a canary in the coal mine when it comes to economic conditions. When things start to go pear-shaped, I notice it early-on. When conditions improve, I’m one of the first to get busy. This occurred with a vengeance over the past few months as pent-up demand for computer services exacerbated an already overburdened schedule.

Anyway, I’ve emerged from my cave, bleary-eyed, but enjoying the Spring weather and ready to start posting some new material.

Out with the old, in with the new: Lots of site changes

nfpa — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:22:46 +0000

Your friendly webweenie got a little time to do some web site renovation today. Mostly, it was a matter of taking a pile of old, loosely integrated material and moving it into the main web site where it will be easier to find and a whole lot easier to maintain.

Take a look up top at the navigation bar. You’ll see several new links. These are . . .

“Wildfire Information” — Just what it says. It’s the old Fire Information Links page, updated and more elegantly presented.
“Maps” — This is our map collection, organized around a single web page.
“Newsletters” — Links to all the newsletters from 1999 to present.
“Archives” — This page has links to a bunch of older material that may still be of interest, including all the old posts from April 2004 through January 2007.

Enjoy!

Fire Information Page updated

nfpa — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:13:29 +0000

We’ve added some new material and reviewed and updated the links on the Fire Information Links Page. Mostly, this was a matter of chasing down the ever-changing location where the Flathead National Forest posts its fire data.

At present, the link to the Fire Information Page has a permanent home in the “NFPA Site Links” section of the sidebar. We’ll likely be moving it to a tab on the navigation bar one of these days.

Missoulian introduces new web site, breaking all links

nfpa — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:35:50 +0000

The Missoulian introduced a redesigned web site this afternoon. Unfortunately, this screwed up every inbound link to their stories for the past several years, not to mention trashing external search engine results from outfits like Google. Apparently, we’ve got some teething problems here. It’s going to take quite a while to clean this up. In the meantime, readers of this weblog looking for linked Missoulian stories will need to dig them up based on topic search at the Missoulian’s web site.

Sorry, folks, there’s not much we can do except work back through the posts and try to clean up all the link rot introduced by this “upgrade.” Fixed-up links will be flagged with [link repaired]. We’ll not likely go back more than a month or so, though — just too much work.

Update

Well, it looks like the Missoulian’s new search index is incomplete for articles prior to about August 1. We’ve fixed up all the August story links. We’re not having much luck for material prior to that date.

Text of UNESCO World Heritage Committee resolution available

nfpa — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 04:47:52 +0000

Regular visitors to this web log will recall that, in late June, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, during their meeting in Seville, Spain, voted to send a mission to investigate threats to Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. They were specifically concerned with proposed mining and energy development projects in the Canadian Flathead.

For those of you who like to read source documents rather than have someone tell you about them, we now have the original text of the committee’s resolution, courtesy of Will Hammerquist of the National Parks Conservation Association.

NFPA has a Twitter feed

nfpa — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:37:42 +0000

The NFPA web site now has, heaven help us, a Twitter feed. So, if checking the web site or monitoring our news feed isn’t real-time enough for you, follow @nfpanews on Twitter.

NFPA Summer 2009 Newsletter available online

nfpa — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:46:58 +0000

The Summer 2009 NFPA Newsletter just went to the printer. Those of you itching to get your hands on it right away can view it online.

Items of note include a status report on the UNESCO investigation into threats to Waterton-Glacier Park, an article by Cristina Eisenberg on the far-reaching and surprising effects on the ecosystem of top predators such as wolves, and a short history of the Foreman family’s impact on the North Fork.

A new year, a new banner

nfpa — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:00:26 +0000

A new year, a new site banner.

This image was contributed by Oliver Meister of the North Fork Hostel. It shows a view from the river of the back yard of the hostel. The North Fork was frozen over and Oliver walked out onto the ice to get the photo.

New site banner photo

nfpa — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:36:12 +0000

Our nice, wintry site banner is provided courtesy of Rachel Potter. This photo was taken on the road to Big Prairie, looking across the North Fork of the Flathead River towards the Whitefish Range.