Sep 15 2011
Edwin Fields of Headwaters Montana has a significant op-ed in this week’s Hungry Horse News that is of particular interest to North Fork residents . . . It’s late summer in Montana and thousands of locals and visitors from around the world have streamed into Glacier National Park every day. Make that Waterton-Glacier International Peace [...]
Jul 23 2011
From a newsletter sent out yesterday by Headwaters Montana . . . We need your help. Do you have just one day this summer to spend at spectacular Logan Pass to help complete the world’s first Peace Park: Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park? Last summer Headwaters Montana sponsored volunteers at Logan Pass in Glacier National Park [...]
Feb 16 2011
The National Parks Conservation Association issued a press release today praising BC Premier Gordon Campbell for his efforts to protect the Canadian Flathead and, by extension, Waterton and Glacier Parks, as well as the Flathead drainage south of the border. Here’s the lead-in. Read the whole thing to see some familiar local names . . [...]
Dec 21 2010
From today’s Metro, Calgary edition (see previous post for full text of letter mentioned here) . . . Eight former park superintendents are pressing the U.S. and Canadian governments to pass protection for areas adjacent to Glacier National Park in Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park just across the border. Read the full article . [...]
Dec 21 2010
From today’s Missoulian (see the previous post for the full text of the letter discussed here) . . . An alliance of veteran superintendents from Glacier and Waterton Lakes national parks has written a letter encouraging swift government action on a public lands bill that would finalize park protections introduced earlier this year. . . [...]
Dec 21 2010
(Note: This is the full text of a public letter signed by six former superintendents of Waterton and Glacier Parks encouraging the U.S. and Canadian governments to complete passage of legislation intended to enhance protections for the parks, including the U.S. North Flathead Protection Act currently stuck in a year-end Senate logjam.) One hundred years [...]
Jul 27 2010
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee released the final report of the scientific mission study of threats to Waterton-Glacier Park. A press release posted to the Flathead Wild website has the highlights . . . A report commissioned by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee is calling for a “conservation and wildlife management plan” for the transboundary [...]
Jul 22 2010
According to a post on the Flathead Wild site today, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee report on threats to Waterton-Glacier Park and its environs will be released at the committee’s meeting in Brasilia, which begins tomorrow. We’ll provide access to the report once it becomes available.
Jan 28 2010
This week’s Hungry Horse News has a decent write-up on the UN World Heritage Committee scientific mission report on threats to Waterton-Glacier Park . . . Scientists from the United Nations are calling for a moratorium on mining in the Canadian Flathead, just north of Glacier National Park. Last fall Paul Dingwall, a New Zealand [...]
Jan 24 2010
Canadian press coverage of the World Heritage scientific mission report on threats to Waterton-Glacier Park is a bit more thorough than the articles posted in local papers. Not surprising, since the report primarily targets proposed resource extraction activities in the Canadian Flathead. Here are a couple examples. Both are recommended reading for anyone interested in [...]
