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 [...]
Tags: Glacier Park, North Flathead Protection Act, Waterton Park, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, World Heritage Site
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 [...]
Tags: BC, British Columbia, Canadian Flathead, Cline Mining, coal mining, coalbed methane, Flathead River Valley, Mist Mountain Project, strip mining, Waterton Lakes National Park, Waterton Park, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park