From the Wednesday, October 3, 2007 online edition of the Missoulian . . .
The nation's top-level land managers are looking to meet with their Canadian counterparts in France later this month to discuss controversial mining projects planned upstream of Glacier National Park.
“A face-to-face meeting is a great way to begin working through these concerns,” said Montana's top Republican, Rep. Denny Rehberg.
Rehberg has long been interested in the transboundary controversy surrounding Canadian plans to tap coal and coalbed methane reserves north of Glacier and just west of Waterton Lakes National Park.
Together, the two parks are joined across the international boundary as a World Heritage Site, a protective designation made in 1995 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Every year, member nations gather for a UNESCO convention on World Heritage Sites. This year's meeting - in Paris on Oct. 24 and 25 - seemed to Rehberg a fine time for U.S. and Canadian delegates to sit down and talk about shared mining threats.
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