Editorial commentary from the Sunday, July 9, 2006 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .
It’s out-of-sight and out-of-mind, but that doesn’t mean it’s not important.
Canada’s Flathead Basin is one and the same as Montana’s North Fork Flathead Basin on the western flank of the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. There is indeed an international border dividing the two, but that doesn’t mean our views of this area need to stop at that boundary.
Fortunately, there is an effort to take a much closer look at the transboundary Flathead, prompted in large part by the potential for coal mine development in the northernmost headwaters that feed the North Fork Flathead River and ultimately Flathead Lake, one of the largest jewels in the Crown of the Continent.
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