Here's some more news forwarded to us by Rachel Potter concerning the upcoming Flathead Basin Commission meeting.
A variety of top technical experts will join Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer and the U.S. co-chair of the International Joint Commission for a wide-ranging discussion of trans-boundary science and policy topics at the December 7 meeting of the Flathead Basin Commission in Kalispell.
Among those scheduled to make presentations are Dr. Jack Stanford, director of the Flathead Lake Biological Station, who will update the group on scientific findings in the North Fork of the Flathead River, and Brace Hayden, a Glacier National Park official who will review the history of the IJC’s involvement in the coal mining issue in the British Columbia portion of the North Fork in the past two decades.
Other presentations will include a report by Kathy Eichenberger, BC’s liaison to the FBC, on the province’s approval process for mining activities and data BC has gathered in the North Fork, and a summary of data needs in this trans-boundary region.
Dennis Schornack, the U.S. co-chair of the organization that arbitrates border disputes between the Canada and the U.S., will detail the role of the IJC in such issues, and Governor Schweitzer will discuss his recent meetings with his counterpart in B.C.
The FBC, a watershed group created by the Montana Legislature to monitor and protect the water quality of the Flathead River drainage, will meet from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the West Coast Hotel in the Kalispell Center Mall, North 20 Main Street. The public is invited to attend.