KALISPELL, Mont. – Strange bedfellows, the logger and the conservationist. Yet here in the Flathead Valley the two have joined forces to try to revolutionize the way America’s public forests are managed. “Our goal is to look at the entire forest,” says Steve Thompson of the Montana Wilderness Association. “Environmental goals are the prime concern […]
Sherry Jones
Posted inSeptember 19, 1994: Flame and blame in the Northwest
Around Glacier Park, it’s every predator for itself
On the edge of Glacier National Park, the North Fork of the Flathead River flows through the wildest ecosystem in the continental United States. It’s the only place in the continental U.S. where mountain lions, gray wolves and grizzly bears share habitat – along with black bears, coyotes, lynx, wolverines, whitetail and mule deer, elk, […]