Feb 15 2011
Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer made the formal announcement in Kalispell yesterday of the commitment by The Nature Conservancy and Nature Conservancy Canada to provide funds to retire oil and gas leases in the Canadian Flathead. Both the Flathead Beacon and the Daily Inter Lake covered the presentation in some detail . . . Flathead Beacon: [...]
Feb 15 2011
Yesterday’s announcement of the commitment by The Nature Conservancy and Nature Conservancy Canada to provide funds to retire oil and gas leases in the Canadian Flathead is getting lots of coverage today. Here’s the official press release from U.S. Senators Max Baucus and John Tester . . . February 15, 2011 ***NEWS RELEASE*** BAUCUS, TESTER [...]
Feb 14 2011
Here’s a nice Valentine’s Day gift, posted in today’s Missoulian . . . A deal to protect the North Fork of the Flathead River from gold and coal development has been sealed with a $10 million contribution from private conservation groups, Gov. Brian Schweitzer announced on Monday. The Nature Conservancy’s U.S. and Canadian organizations have [...]
Aug 15 2010
Here’s an interesting article from the past week’s Hungry Horse News . . . A deal to permanently protect the North Fork of the Flathead could come soon, Montana Sen. Jon Tester said last week. “Maybe as soon as September we could get an agreement that is binding,” Tester said in a conference call with [...]
Jul 27 2010
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee released the final report of the scientific mission study of threats to Waterton-Glacier Park. A press release posted to the Flathead Wild website has the highlights . . . A report commissioned by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee is calling for a “conservation and wildlife management plan” for the transboundary [...]
Jul 18 2010
From today’s Flathead Beacon . . . Accepting the Flathead Lakers’ 2010 Stewardship Award for signing an agreement with British Columbia protecting the North Fork from mining and drilling, Gov. Brian Schweitzer gave much of the credit to his counterpart in the negotiations: Premier Gordon Campbell. Describing the fragile talks, held secretly in Spokane, Schweitzer [...]
Jul 16 2010
Posted yesterday to the KECI-TV website . . . The Flathead Lakers recognized Governor Brian Schweitzer for his efforts to protect the Flathead. They gave Schweitzer an award for his agreement with British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell. The agreement between Montana and British Columbia halts mining in the Canadian portion of the North Fork drainage. [...]
Jul 02 2010
From an Associated Press article posted yesterday . . . Gov. Brian Schweitzer is facing sharp questions from Montana’s congressional delegation over the way the governor has handled an agreement with Canada to protect the Glacier National Park area. Schweitzer inked a deal with Canadian officials earlier this year promising that both sides would move [...]
Jul 01 2010
From this week’s Hungry Horse News . . . A deal to permanently protect the North Fork of the Flathead from mining and energy exploration could ultimately be resolved in a treaty between the two countries. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday that they were directing their federal agencies to [...]
Jun 29 2010
Here’s an insightful follow-up article on last weekend’s Western governors meeting, written by Michael Jamison and posted to the Missoulian’s website early this morning . . . A plan to forever protect Canadian wildlands north of Glacier National Park — and to pay for those protections — is slowly taking shape, cobbled together by an [...]
