Nov 22 2011
Ralph Maughan’s The Wildlife News weblog presents a refreshingly personal view of the recent B.C. legislation to protect the Flathead Basin . . . What a turnaround in the space of 3 years! In 2008 I took a 2 week trip to the headwaters of the famed North Fork of the Flathead River in B.C. [...]
Nov 22 2011
British Columbia has now passed formal legislation protecting the Canadian Flathead (and the folks downstream on the U.S. side of the border) from extractive resource development. This is big news. (Albeit slightly stale — your friendly webperson got a little buried by his day job.) The Missoulian has a good write-up . . . Canadian [...]
Oct 12 2011
Here’s the Hungry Horse News’ take on the recently introduced Flathead Watershed Area Conservation Act . . . A bill introduced in the British Columbia legislature last week would ban mining and oil and gas exploration in the Canadian Flathead, which is the North Fork of the Flathead River north of the border. The Flathead [...]
Sep 20 2011
From the most recent Headwaters Montana newsletter . . . When Gov. Schweitzer and BC Premier Gordon Campbell signed the historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the North Fork Flathead River in February 2010 Headwaters Montana heralded that event as an “historic breakthrough”. And indeed it was. But like all signed agreements, the MOU was [...]
Sep 01 2011
Many of you already got an email from the National Parks Conservation Association announcing the opening of the “Protect Glacier” website. For those who haven’t seen the big announcement yet, here it is: More than 30 years ago, fans of Glacier National Park were alarmed to learn of Canadian coal mining plans that would tear [...]
Jul 20 2011
The Hungry Horse News has a short article on all the excitement 60 years ago surrounding oil exploration efforts in the North Fork just over the line in Canada at Sage Creek . . . Large headlines in August 1951 declared oil drilling would start in the North Fork. This was exciting news with hopes [...]
Jun 10 2011
Online media publication New West ran a feature Wednesday on the North Fork Watershed Protection Act, including some nice local quotes from NFPA President John Frederick . . . An ongoing effort to protect a shared river drainage on the Montana-Canada border from mining damage will not inhibit recreational users, hunters or logging activity, Montana’s [...]
Feb 27 2011
This well-written, well-researched article by Rob Chaney of the Missoulian is recommended reading for anyone interested in the challenges still to come in protecting the Trans-boundary Flathead . . . Now that the trans-boundary conference calls and Washington, D.C., hand-shaking sessions are over, a lot remains to finish in protecting the Flathead River between British [...]
Feb 26 2011
This article on the Sierra Club BC’s web site does a good job of putting the current actions by the B.C. government to protect the Canadian part of the Flathead valley in context. Here’s the lead-in . . . Legislation to prohibit mining and energy development in the Flathead River Valley is only the first [...]
Feb 16 2011
The National Parks Conservation Association issued a press release today praising BC Premier Gordon Campbell for his efforts to protect the Canadian Flathead and, by extension, Waterton and Glacier Parks, as well as the Flathead drainage south of the border. Here’s the lead-in. Read the whole thing to see some familiar local names . . [...]
