Dec 21 2011
The Daily Inter Lake has a story about boom and bust oil exploration in Montana, including its beginnings in 1901 near Kintla Lake . . . The history of oil in Montana began in an area that never had any substantial development of the natural resource — the Flathead Valley. The state’s first oil well [...]
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 [...]
Sep 15 2011
Edwin Fields of Headwaters Montana has a significant op-ed in this week’s Hungry Horse News that is of particular interest to North Fork residents . . . It’s late summer in Montana and thousands of locals and visitors from around the world have streamed into Glacier National Park every day. Make that Waterton-Glacier International Peace [...]
Sep 05 2011
From the Flathead Beacon . . . Grizzly Bear Management Specialist Tim Manley has been busy. In the past two weeks Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks captured five grizzly bears in the north end of the Flathead Valley. Continue reading . . .
Aug 30 2011
It sounds like the usual late-season bear attractants are causing some problems in the valley. The Missoulian has a write-up . . . State wildlife officials worked through the weekend to capture a trio of apple-eating grizzly bears visiting homes near Columbia Falls, but as of Monday they had succeeded in penning just two of [...]
Aug 17 2011
Today’s Daily Inter Lake has a pretty good report on the wildfire action in the Flathead Valley . . . Flathead Valley residents got to take in a familiar summer spectacle Wednesday: Smoke columns towering over the Swan Mountain Range. The smoke was pouring from two fires burning in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. It was [...]
May 09 2011
The Flathead Beacon posted a good article today on the flood potential in the Flathead River Basin, including the latest forecast estimates. This one is recommended reading . . . The National Weather Service reported last week that the snowpack in certain areas of the Flathead River Basin have reached historic levels, likely leading to [...]
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 [...]
