Feb 01 2009
From the Saturday, January 31, 2009 online edition of the Calgary Herald . . . Conservation groups are renewing calls for Waterton Lakes National Park to be expanded into the Flathead River Valley, despite British Columbia’s decision to close the door to coal bed methane development in the ecologically key area in southeastern B.C. The [...]
Dec 04 2008
Further information on the proposed Cline mine’s impact on bull trout from the Canada.com web site . . . U.S. government scientists studying the Flathead River watershed straddling the B.C.-Montana border say they’ve discovered the prime spawning site for a threatened species of trout – on the Canadian side of the system, and in the [...]
Nov 28 2008
From the Friday, November 28, 2008 online edition of the Missoulian . . . A controversial Canadian coal mine, proposed high in the headwaters above Glacier National Park, would be built atop the most productive bull trout spawning habitat in the entire river basin. “That site, immediately below the proposed mine site, is incredibly important [...]
Nov 26 2008
From the Tuesday, November 25, 2008 online edition of the Keremeos Review . . . Seven out of ten Kootenay residents want to protect the Flathead River Valley as a national park, according to new polling results released today by Wildsight and Sierra Club BC. The poll, conducted by McAllister Opinion Research, found that 73 [...]
