Sep 26 2010
For those of you not wishing to wade through multi-megabytes of material, today’s Daily Inter Lake has a good summary of the findings of the recently completed North Fork Flathead Road Corridor Study . . . Only additional grading and stabilization treatments for the North Fork Road have broad public support, according to a recently [...]
Sep 21 2010
The final North Fork Flathead Road Corridor Study document is now available for download from the study’s web page. The study document does not include the three associated appendices, which can also be downloaded from the same place. For those of you who don’t wish to wade through the full 66-page document, the study group’s [...]
Aug 15 2010
Heavens! We’ve let two weeks go by without mentioning the road — in particular, the infamous Montana Department of Transportation’s North Fork Road Corridor Study (recent posts here, here and here). The Corridor Study has generated hundreds of public comments on all aspects of the issue — some carefully reasoned, many less so — but [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
