Michael Jamison has an excellent article on the revival of the Flathead Coalition scheduled for the May 13, 2004 issue of the Missoulian . . .
KALISPELL - For more than two decades, a group of Flathead sportsmen, business owners, conservationists and civic leaders has lain low, dormant but viable like so many seeds waiting a spring rain.
At the end of this month, they plan to emerge, spreading their leaves to shade out a Canadian proposal that would mine coal and methane gas not far from Glacier National Park.
"We're going to hop back on this horse and ride again," said Dick Kuhl, current president of the Flathead Coalition.
The coalition was formed in 1975, when a Canadian coal company first proposed two open-pit strip mines about five miles from Glacier Park's northwestern boundary. The mines would straddle the headwaters of the North Fork Flathead River, which forms the western boundary of the park and pours into Flathead Lake.
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The first meeting of the Flathead Coalition since 1989 is set for 7 p.m. Thursday, May 20, in the Mezzanine Meeting Room of Kalispell's historic KM Building. It is open to the public, and organizers hope all past member groups, as well as those new to the issue, will attend.
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