British Columbia
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B.C. defends reduced grizzly hunt. B.C. has extended its protected areas but will still allow a limited-entry hunt. By Tom Fletcher – BC Local News. www.firstpeople.us
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Attack on timber worker came next to an operating helicopter- Grizzly attack on forest worker baffles experts. Bear was not deterred by helicopter at logging camp; victim is in hospital. Sandra McCulloch, Times Colonist
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Flathead Basin Commission hears of new coal mine. By Heidi Desch. Hungry Horse News. Link to North Fork Landowners’ Association. Photos and new information about mining in the headwaters of the Flathead. – – – – – Montana folks and politicians are very nervous about all this planned heavy activity (huge mountain removing mines) in…
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Record number of grizzly bears were killed in British Columbia last year. By Mark Hume. The Globe and Mail. Usually about 300 grizzlies are taken. In 2007 it was 430. Is this sustainable?
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British Petroleum has withdrawn their plans for massive industrialization of the area across the border, but adjacent to Glacier National Park, but B.P. other companies and the British Columbia government have lots of other awful plans for this general area. Bordering on Catastrophe. Montana’s opposition helped kill a Canadian mining plan last week. But has…