Feb 16 2011
Monday, Gov. Schweitzer announced in Kalispell the commitment by The Nature Conservancy and Nature Conservancy Canada to provide funds to retire oil and gas leases in the Canadian Flathead. Tuesday, in Washington D.C., the whole package was wrapped up and a ribbon tied around it when Canadian Ambassador Gary Doer announced that the Canadian government [...]
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 11 2011
According to the Missoulian, Senators Baucus and Tester are taking another run at restoring wolf management to state control in Montana and Idaho. The article also provides a pretty good retrospective of other significant wolf news from the past week . . . Montana’s Senate delegation has introduced a new attempt to put gray wolves [...]
Feb 05 2011
Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester have reintroduced legislation to prevent new oil and gas development and mining in the U.S. North Fork watershed. Here’s the full text of the press release, dated Jan. 31 . . . BAUCUS, TESTER FIGHT FOR PERMANENT PROTECTION OF THE NORTH FORK AND TOURISM JOBS Senators Hail Successful Negotiation [...]
Nov 22 2010
BP has climbed on the bandwagon, retiring their local oil and gas leases, including “a 394-acre parcel near the Polebridge entrance to Glacier National Park.” The Missoulian has the story . . . The oil company BP voluntarily gave up its rights to explore for energy along the western border of Glacier National Park, U.S. [...]
Oct 23 2010
Ben Lamb had an excellent guest commentary posted to last Wednesday’s New West. He’s lost patience with all the political posturing over wolf management. It’s an entertaining read . . . The political wrangling over wolves since the latest relisting in August is now in full force. It’s unfortunate that we’ve arrived at a place [...]
Sep 29 2010
From today’s Flathead Beacon, here’s some more information on the attempt to remove the gray wolf from the Endangered Species List. This write-up includes links to useful external material . . . Just days after Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg announced that he had drafted legislation that would remove the gray wolf from the Endangered Species [...]
Sep 28 2010
Montana’s congresscritters are really jumping on the wolf issue. A late post to today’s Missoulian . . . Montana and Idaho could win back state management of gray wolves through legislation offered by senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester late Tuesday. The state’s two Democratic senators introduced their bill in the Senate Environment and Public [...]
Sep 11 2010
From today’s Missoulian . . . Another 11 oil and gas exploration leases along the west side of Glacier National Park have been voluntarily released, according to Montana Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester. XTO Energy has decided not to pursue its development options on about 21,000 acres along the North Fork of the Flathead [...]
Aug 19 2010
Dave Hadden, director of Headwaters Montana, Robin Steinkraus, executive director of the Flathead Lakers and Will Hammerquist, program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association’s Glacier Field Office have a nice commentary piece in today’s Flathead Beacon . . . Here in Montana, August brings us the county fair and farm harvests. And this year [...]
