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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mar 16 2009
OK, it looks like the Daily Mistake Inter Lake was in error the other day when they listed “a $4.1 million rebuild of the North Fork Road, with paving to the Camas entrance of Glacier National Park” as being on the Flathead County wish list for federal stimulus funds. According to a brief note from [...]
Mar 15 2009
The Tuesday, March 10, 2009 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake had an article on the Flathead County Commissioner’s wish list of projects for federal stimulus funds. This includes the following excerpt of interest to North Forkers: …Roads figure heavily into the county’s proposed stimulus projects. Among the most expensive road projects on the [...]
Mar 04 2009
As promised, Flathead County has set some money aside for a sort-of dust abatement co-pay plan. Trouble is, there aren’t many takers so far. The deadline is March 27th. From the March 4, 2009 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . . Residents who want to tap into Flathead County’s cost-sharing dust abatement [...]
Jan 27 2009
From the Tuesday, January 27, 2009 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . . County officials briefed the county commissioners Monday on last year’s efforts and this year’s plans to deal with vehicles churning up dust on the Flathead’s gravel roads. “We’ve demonstrated to the [Montana Department of Environmental Quality] and to the [...]
Dec 13 2008
From the Saturday, December 13, 2008 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . . If you live in the far reaches of Flathead County, don’t hold your breath waiting for the snowplow to come. The county road department has 8.5 fewer full-time employees to handle the road maintenance load this winter, and no [...]
Dec 05 2008
The Thursday, December 4, 2008 online edition of the Hungry Horse News included a report on the November 20th meeting concerning the North Fork Road called by Commissioner Gary Hall. It is an interesting read. Although the meeting concentrated mostly on dust remediation and funding issues, there was another little gem of more immediate interest: [...]
