An article by Michael Jamison from the Thursday, January 19, 2006 online edition of the Missoulian . . .
With Canadian federal elections less than a week away, folks on both sides of the border are watching closely the race to represent Montana's neighbor, southeastern British Columbia.
That's because the winner in that three-way campaign likely will be enlisted to help hammer out a solution to a decades-long international dispute over how best to manage wildlands immediately north of Glacier National Park.
For years, there has been talk from the north about developing energy reserves in the Canadian Flathead, a wild river drainage that flows south across the border to form the western edge of Glacier Park before spilling into Flathead Lake.
Downstream residents - and not a few local Canadians - have fought those proposals, however, arguing coal and coalbed methane projects could taint transboundary waters and impact sensitive fisheries and cross-border wildlife populations.
Read the entire article . . .
Posted by nfpa at January 20, 2006 05:05 AM