From the Wednesday, September 13, 2006 online edition of the Whitefish Pilot . . .
Wilderness in the North Fork proved to be one of the key sticking issues facing a 12-member task force charged by the Flathead County Commissioners to review a draft revision of the Flathead National Forest Plan.
In the end, the task force issued an opinion approving more wilderness in the Bob Marshall and Mission Range if no more wilderness was recommended for the North Fork. Commissioners Gary Hall and Bob Watne signed the task force's recommendation Aug. 30, but commissioner Joe Brenneman remained opposed.
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