From the Wednesday, September 6, 2006 online edition of the Bigfork Eagle . . .
Over 100 Flathead Valley businesses voiced support for conserving the valley's headwater streams last month in a signed letter to Gov. Brian Schweitzer.
Flathead area business owners urged Gov. Schweitzer to take a strong stance on maintaining clean water in the streams and rivers that flow from the back country and through the Flathead Basin and ultimately end up in Flathead Lake.
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Gov. Schweitzer did not make a formal response to the letter as of press time. He is developing recommendations to determine the future management of national forest back country areas in Montana, specifically areas currently managed as roadless. Those areas are the source for much of the Flathead Basin's clean water. Schweitzer is speaking with Canadian officials about the potential for the development of open pit coal mining on the headwaters of the North Fork of the Flathead River outside of Glacier National Park.
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