From the Saturday, February 9, 2008 online edition of the Missoulian . . .

The annual budget for Glacier National Park has started trickling in, but still to arrive is a promised $886,000 intended to study the environment of southwestern British Columbia.

“I’ll be much happier when I see the money in hand,” said Jack Potter, who heads up scientific research in the park. “It hasn’t come yet, but we’re working on the assumption that it’s on the way.”

The money, secured with the help of Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., is intended to help gather baseline environmental data from an area north of the park targeted for coal and coalbed methane development.

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