Chris Peterson of the Hungry Horse News wrote a great article on the History of the North Fork Preservation Association on the occasion of its 40th anniversary . . .
The year was 1982. The Canadians were eyeing lopping off the top of a mountain just north of Glacier National Park for the Cabin Creek coal mine.
The results for the North Fork of the Flathead River would have been wide-reaching and deleterious for the Park and the river.
So a few like-minded North Forkers got together and decided to fight the mine…