Flathead Wild?
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Submitted by Joe1 on Sun, 07/02/2010 - 9:40pm.
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Most people don't realize that when the Flathead River flows into the US it flows within meters of a huge Lumber plant at Columbia Falls, then it meets with the South Fork that is Dammed by the Hungry Horse Dam, it continues on beside Kalispell Montana within a few blocks of K-Mart, Walmart, Shopko. I hope we can keep it as Prestine as they do. |
Joined: 01-10-2006
At least it gets a good start on this side..
Joined: 04-06-2006
What we call the Flathead River Valley is called the North Fork in Montana. One of 4 forks of the Flathead watershed.
In Montana 50% of their North Fork Flathead River Valley is protected in Glacier National Park. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Biosphere Reserve and designated Wild and Scenic River.
The Canadian side has something under 5% protected. The rest is open to mining and gas development.
Keep it Wild. Keep it Connected. - www.flathead.ca
Joined: 03-06-2008
Interesting that Larry Ostola of Parks Canada told the free press that Parks Canada is pleased that UNESCO's report confirmed what Canada has been saying all along. The flathead is not a world heritage site in danger. Now if we can just keep UNESCO and Wildsight out of our schools this valley will be a better place.
Joined: 23-10-2007
[quote=mikes]Interesting that Larry Ostola of Parks Canada told the free press that Parks Canada is pleased that UNESCO's report confirmed what Canada has been saying all along. The flathead is not a world heritage site in danger. Now if we can just keep UNESCO and Wildsight out of our schools this valley will be a better place. [/quote]
Very interesting! Interesting too that, and here I paraphrase the Fernie Free Press, "A moratorium on mining is needed to protect the Flathead Valley and the neighbouring Waterton-Glacier World Heritage Site, UNESCO delegates who visited the area have reportedly concluded."
I think it's best we all just wait til July for the actual report rather than commenting on hearsay from those either for or against. It'll just end in yet more bickering.
Canada's got a lousy international record on environmental issues, so it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if money talked in southern BC as much as it clearly has in northern Alberta.
Joined: 03-06-2008
Just as much as i want "big oil" out of the flathead. I want "big green" out of the flathead. This includes wildsight, and unesco. I don't need to wait for a report from a pro abortion, anti family group like unesco to tell me what's right for the flathead, while they sit in France drinking wine all winter long while we're out here living in it.
Joined: 06-03-2007
If there was big mining or oil or cbm resources in the Flathead do you not think resource extraction would not have happened already?
In the 1920's the first oil exploration took place in the Flathead and turned up nothing.
In the 1980's the Flathead had extensive drilling and seismic exploration (they even drilled some test wells for coal bed methane) Nothing was found to be feasibly.
The gold exploration that Wildsight is crying about now has been going on for at least 30 years. I can show you old exploration roads and where a camp was in the back end of Roach Creek, which is in the upper Sage area. This took place in the late 70's and we still see no active gold mining today.
Exploration is just that 'exploration' 95% of the time nothing feasible is ever found. Lots of times it's used to simply understand the geology to identify target deposits hundreds or maybe thousands of miles away. A good example of this is Canada's diamond mines in the NWT.
The proposed Cline mine is a joke. Ask any of the older geologists around the valley. That whole area was explored extensively by Kiaser Coal in the 60's and 70's. It's all low grade thermal coal, which isn't worth a whole lot per tonne and would be very expensive to transport. I think the only thing Cline mining is ever going to mine is the pockets of their shareholders.
Joined: 23-10-2007
[quote=mikes]I don't need to wait for a report from a pro abortion, anti family group like unesco to tell me what's right for the flathead[/quote]
Careful, you'll be channelling the Pope soon.
Joined: 03-06-2008
Well, with my pro family view, also comes a pro same sex marriage view, so it's going to be tough to challenge the pope with that one.
Joined: 23-11-2007
i don't know, mikes.
technically the catholics believe in a male supreme being and the pope, as a priest, is 'married' to god. so it sort of puts him in a sub-category of same sex marriage.
Joined: 23-10-2007
[quote=mikes]Well, with my pro family view, also comes a pro same sex marriage view, so it's going to be tough to challenge the pope with that one. [/quote]
I have no idea how many Hail Marys you're going to have to do to get back in the Pope's good books after that revelation, but I'd be starting sometime around now... otherwise you'll be joining the rest of us on the down escalator into Hell. And you may arrive to find a Wildsight campaign going on.