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 21 2011
The spate of warmer weather is expected to increase water flow in the Flathead River. The current forecast for the North Fork shows it exceeding flood level briefly at the Canadian border late Thursday/early Friday. The Daily Inter Lake has a write-up . . . With a significant warming trend expected this week, the National [...]
Jun 15 2011
This Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks press release, posted today on the Flathead Beacon web site, is a North Fork-specific follow-up on the grizzly bear monitoring effort announced three weeks ago: Grizzly bear population capture efforts for monitoring in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE) have concluded in the North Fork Drainage. Three bears were [...]
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
A very informative article posted late last night to the Missoulian’s web site . . . While about 80 percent of existing energy exploration leases in the North Fork Flathead have been retired by the world’s leading oil, gas and mining companies, a handful of parcels remain in contention by smaller firms. Those holdings include [...]
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. [...]
Sep 03 2010
Richard Wackrow sent out this reminder today. For background information, see the article “Border Patrol agents on North Fork to increase from four to 50-plus” published in this summer’s newsletter . . . Just a reminder that David Abegglen, agent in charge of the Whitefish office of the Border Patrol (out of which the North [...]
Aug 06 2010
Posted early this morning to the Missoulian’s website . . . A measure that would ban federal-land mining along Glacier National Park’s western edge has passed a major Senate hurdle, and has been expanded to provide water-quality protections for nearby communities… …the bill banning future federal mine leases has been expanded from its original to [...]
Aug 06 2010
From the Associated Press . . . Montana’s U.S. Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester announced today that their federal legislation to protect the Upper Flathead Valley has cleared a major hurdle. Read the full article . . .
Jul 17 2010
Dave Hadden, Executive Director of Headwaters Montana, had a letter to the editor published in today’s Flathead Beacon . . . The North Fork of the Flathead River (a.k.a. the Transboundary Flathead) continues to play in the news of late. The news media report that Gov. Brian Schweitzer and Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester [...]
