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'Mountain Momma' looks to preserve land east of river with community support
3+ hour, 26+ min ago (636+ words) An aerial view of the River Road parcel. A Columbia Falls woman who is no stranger to public lands advocacy hopes to preserve a key piece of land east of the Flathead River. Keagan Zoellner recently pitched the idea of…...
Cd'A council to decide future of well sites
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (178+ words) Coeur d'Alene Mayor Dan Gookin and City Councilor Amy Evans listen to a presentation during Tuesday night's meeting. KAYE THORNBRUGH/Press The Coeur d'Alene City Council will meet tonight to consider two resolutions related to wells in Coeur d'Alene, among…...
DEQ awards Sandpoint $40. 5 million in wastewater funding
1+ week, 5+ day ago (178+ words) Hagadone News Network DEQ awards Sandpoint $40. 5 million in wastewater funding JACK FREEMAN | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 8 hours, 55 minutes AGO Signage in front of Sandpoint's wastewater treatment plant. SANDPOINT " The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality has awarded $40. 5 million to Sandpoint for…...
State considers loosened harvest limits and bait restrictions for western Montana anglers
2+ week, 10+ hour ago (404+ words) A fisherman casts a line into Flathead Lake from the Wayfarers Unit of Flathead Lake State Park in Bigfork on Thursday, Feb. 5. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Casey Kreider Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is pitching the changes as part…...
Tribal project restores portion of Jocko River to natural flow
2+ week, 6+ day ago (758+ words) The Jocko River Bison Range Reach Restoration project restores the stream and floodplain. The drone overview shot shows the new meandering channel to the left and the old channel on the right. (Courtesy of CSKT) Riparian structures are being built…...
Flathead basin posts above normal precipitation
2+ week, 6+ day ago (741+ words) There's still snow in Glacier National Park, which feeds the Flathead Basin watershed -- and bike riding opportunities too, as these cyclists discovered while pedaling up Going-to-the-Sun Road on Mother's Day weekend, while it's still closed to cars and buses. (Kristi…...
Headlines: Flathead Basin fish free of forever chemicals, Kalispell Public Schools' request for summary judgment in hazing lawsuit rejected
3+ week, 4+ day ago (182+ words) Daily Inter Lake reporter Taylor Inman goes over some of the week's biggest headlines for Northwest Montana." We'll learn what a report about PFAS contamination in fish says about the Flathead Basin, following a previously suppressed report from the Montana…...
PROGRESS: Sandpoint navigating funding, design for wastewater treatment plant
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (697+ words) SANDPOINT " Nearly five months after voters approved a $130 million bond to renovate the city's wastewater treatment plant, city staff are in discussions with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality on design and funding." Sandpoint's plant was one of Mayor Jeremy…...
Rivers plan draws more than 1, 000 comments, often with pointed criticism
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (907+ words) A hiker eyes a sea of larch along the North Fork of the Flathead. The Flathead National Forest received 1, 088 comments on the draft Comprehensive River management Plan for the three forks of the Flathead River in the National Wild and…...
Tribal water resources division will move to new building in Ronan
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (670+ words) The state-of-the-art flagship building, as Natural Resources Department head Rich Janssen calls it, will have a teepee motif outside the front entrance. (Emily Messer/Leader) Department head Rich Janssen chats with project manager Trinity Ferguson as they tour the building....