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 [...]
Tags: gravel roads, North Fork Road, road maintenance, rural roads
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 [...]
Tags: black oil, Dave Prunty, dust abatement, dust palliative, emulsified asphalt, gravel roads, magnesium chloride, road maintenance, rural roads
Oct
10
2008
One of the factors in the ongoing road maintenance debate is the impact of paving on increased land development and settlement. Headwaters Economics along with Chris Servheen of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the University of Montana just released a report titled “Land Use Effects of Paving Rural Roads in Western Montana” that [...]
Tags: gravel roads, land development, paving, road maintenance, rural roads