Jan 18 2012
Larry does a retrospective on the big issues of last year, including the North Fork Road and successful efforts to terminate resource extraction activities in the transboundary Flathead Valley . . . January is the month when everyone looks back on the previous year to see what the biggest news stories were and to make [...]
Nov 03 2010
British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell announced his resignation today due to widespread dissatisfaction with recent tax policy. Perhaps “dissatisfaction” is too mild a word; his approval rating plummeted to nine percent. What’s the North Fork connection? Premier Campbell and Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer signed a Memorandum of Understanding last February banning mining and energy development [...]
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 [...]
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 04 2010
Wow! This is getting interesting, if not downright entertaining. Gov. Schweitzer and Sens. Baucus and Tester are really starting to butt heads over implementation of the memorandum of understanding Schweitzer negotiated with British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell regarding protection of the trans-boundary Flathead. Today’s Flathead Beacon has a good write-up on the issue . . [...]
