Jul 29 2010
Here’s the Flathead Beacon’s take on last Tuesday’s public open house to discuss the North Fork Road corridor study draft . . .
To pave or not to pave? The question of what to do with the North Fork Road was further debated Tuesday night in Columbia Falls. Residents, local business owners and Flathead County officials [...]
Jul 29 2010
Here’s the Daily Inter Lake’s write-up on last Tuesday’s public open house to discuss the North Fork Road corridor study draft. If for no other reason, it’s worth reading for Flathead County Commissioner Jim Dupont’s pragmatic comments . . .
To pave or not to pave may not be the question.
Due to lack of money, Flathead [...]
Jul 29 2010
This week’s Hungry Horse News has a good summary of last Tuesday’s public open house to discuss the North Fork Road corridor study draft.
Note that public comments are due by August 10. Send e-mail to mdtnffrteam@mt.gov or write to Lani Eggertsen-Goff, PB 488 E. Wincester Street, Suite 400, Murray, UT 84107. The draft corridor study [...]
Jul 24 2010
Here’s some more information on the upcoming public meeting on the North Fork Road corridor study from yesterday’s Daily Inter Lake . . .
An open-house-style meeting has been scheduled for the public to review and give comments on the corridor study of a portion of the North Fork Road.
The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. [...]
Jul 21 2010
According to an email sent out yesterday afternoon by Pam Murray of PB Americas, the draft North Fork Road corridor study document is now available online and, for those of you traveling down-valley, on paper. (If you came late to the party, the corridor study is a $125K project looking at alternatives for improving the [...]
Jul 01 2010
The road. Again. This time, the National Parks Conservation Association and Earthjustice are weighing in.
From this week’s Hungry Horse News . . .
Two environmental groups have laid out a legal case against paving a section of the North Fork Road.
The National Parks Conservation Association and Earthjustice have submitted an eight-page letter detailing how paving the [...]
Nov 18 2009
As many of you know, the North Fork Landowners’ Association Road Committee has been doing an exceptional and balanced job collecting and presenting well-researched road maintenance and dust abatement information. They recently completed and posted their Final Road Report for 2008 – 2009, summarizing all their activities for the past two years. For more detail, [...]
Aug 23 2009
From a recent email sent out by the NFLA Road Committee . . .
The NFLA road committee has arranged to have Laura Fay, a research scientist from Western Transportation Institute out of MSU, come to talk about Dust Control Options. She will speak on September 8th at 10:00 a.m. at Sondreson Hall.
Her talk will include [...]
May 02 2009
Here’s an interesting entry from the North Fork Landowners’ Association Road Committee’s February minutes:
Dave Prunty has inquired about landowners’ interest in narrowing the section of gravel road from the end of the blacktop to Camas Creek Road. It is currently 40 plus feet wide and the proposal is to narrow it to a 24-foot width. [...]
Mar 25 2009
From the Monday, March 23, 2009 edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
Flathead County hopes to get money from the federal Secure Rural Schools Act this summer to make improvements on the North Fork and Star Meadows roads.
The county has asked for $175,000 in federal money to apply crushed rock on the North [...]