From the Wednesday, September 26, 2007 online edition of the Flathead Beacon . . .
U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester on Wednesday urged top U.S. officials to help add Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park to the "List of World Heritage in Danger," as part of their efforts to prevent mining and drilling proposals north of the Montana border.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization named the park a World Heritage site — a property having "outstanding universal value" — in 1995.
World Heritage sites can be added to the List of World Heritage in Danger if they face a "serious and specific" risk, the Democratic senators said in a release.
According to the World Heritage Web site, the list is designed to "inform the international community of conditions which threaten the very characteristics for which a property was inscribed on the World Heritage List, and to encourage corrective action."
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