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 [...]
Jul 07 2010
From today’s Daily Inter Lake . . . The Flathead Lakers will present their annual Stewardship Award to Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell at their annual meeting on July 15. The award will recognize the landmark agreement the two leaders signed in February banning mining and oil-and-gas development in the [...]
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 . . [...]
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 [...]
Jun 29 2010
Here’s the Associated Press take on last weekend’s Western governors meeting in Whitefish. This story is getting some national coverage. From yesterday’s Billings Gazette . . . Gov. Brian Schweitzer isn’t done jousting with federal officials over a deal with Canada to protect the area surrounding Glacier National Park. Montana’s governor used the bully pulpit [...]
Jun 29 2010
Coverage of last weekend’s western governor’s conference in Whitefish from the Flathead Beacon . . . Gov. Brian Schweitzer called on Montana’s federal delegation Sunday to support legislation by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, dedicated to restoring the Columbia River Basin, as a way to fund commitments in the agreement between Montana and British Columbia to [...]
