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July 14, 2011 - 2nd annual Robin Cox Weed Roundup
Howdy to all you weed wranglers out there. Tomorrow, Friday July 15th, will be the first weed roundup of the year here on the North Fork....
July 12, 2011 - Interlocal meeting tomorrow
Tomorrow, Wednesday July 13th, is the summer Interlocal meeting at Sondreson Hall ...
July 4, 2011 - Jean Grimaldi has passed away
Jean Grimaldi, a long time summer resident of Polebridge and NFLA member, passed away last Tuesday, June 28th...
June 26, 2011 - Sandi Thomson
Sandi Elliott Thomson passed away on Friday, June 24th after a long and hard-fought battle with cancer.....
June 7, 2011 - Report from the 1st Business Meeting of the year
The first NFLA Business Meeting of the year took place on Saturday night, June 4...
May 24, 2011 - Annual hall cleanup a success
Another summer has begun with the annual cleanup of Sondreson Hall. Neighbors who showed up to help included the Hildners, Caldwells, McDonoughs, Novak/Reardon, Heaphys, Lee Secrest, Ted Ramon and Peter Freund....
May 19, 2011 - Ruth Sondreson
Larry Wilson reports in his Hungry Horse News column this week that Ruth Sondreson died on April 14....
Feb. 11, 2011 -Update on North Fork by Two Timber sale
Jason Glenn from the Stillwater State Forest recently provided an update and some additional information about the North Fork by Two Timber Sale....
Oct. 7, 2010 - Membership votes for spring-only newsletter
Members of the NFLA voted at the September Business Meeting to skip the publication of a fall newsletter...
Sept. 21, 2010 - North Fork Road Corridor Study published
The completed North Fork Flathead Road (NFFR) Corridor Study document is now available to the public...
June 4, 2010 - Hall cleaning
By all accounts the May 29th Hall Cleanup Day was a huge success. There were 17 people on the job, cleaning and organizing for the start of the season...
April 28, 2010 - Road corridor study underway
Flathead County, in partnership with the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT), is conducting an ongoing road corridor planning study that covers 13 miles of Highway 486 (aka North Fork Flathead Road)...
Winter, 2009-2010 Road Committee winter update
The Road Committee has been working hard this winter and has published an update on their activities. It includes a summary from correspondence with the County Commissioner Jim Dupont, a summary from an email exchange between
Feb 17, 2010—Canadian North Fork declared off limits
On Feb. 10th the Missoulian reported that British Columbia Lt. Gov. Steven Point had declared the Canadian portion of the Flathead River Valley off limits to mining and energy extraction...
Dec 17, 2009—Road improvements completed
Dave Prunty, Public Works Director for Flathead County, reports that the Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) project for North Fork road improvements has been completed....
Nov 30, 2009—Lost dog
I can’t drive past a lost dog, a dog on the road that just plain looks like it’s in the wrong place. It drives my husband crazy, but I just can’t help it....
Nov 23, 2009—County matches RAC funding for dust abatement
Flathead County Public Works Director Dave Prunty announced that the county will take advantage of their dust cost share program to match $10,250 of Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) funding for dust abatement on the North Fork road...
Nov 20, 2009—NFLA Weed Committee Update: RAC Grant Approved
On Tuesday, November 10 USFS Weed Coordinator Tris Hoffman and NFLA Weed Committee members Valerie Cox and John Frederick presented a grant application to the Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) ...
Nov 4, 2009—Wolves poached on the North Fork
Three wolves were poached on the North Fork in late October. Randy Houk from Columbia Falls pleaded guilty for two of them and was fined a total of $1,135...
Oct 21 , 2009—Safety tips for hunting season
Hunting season is already underway for bow, moose, and bear hunters, but rifle season for deer and elk opens next weekend, October 25th, and runs through the end of November...
Oct 21 , 2009—Take care of our bears
The Rockies are deep in the swing of the season and winter snows are on the way. For bears, that means hurry up and eat as much as possible and put on enough fat to weather the winter denning period....
Oct. 19 , 2009—Helicopter activity near Mt. Hefty rescheduled
The Boarder Patrol had planned to install a new repeater site on Mt. Hefty in the first weeks of October. Due to unfavorable weather conditions, however, the installation has been delayed...
Oct. 16 , 2009—NFLA Historical Committee opens for business
The NFLA Historical Committee held its inaugural meeting on October 6, 2009. The committee is co-chaired by Debo Powers and Morgan Hart....
Oct. 16 , 2009—NFLA Weed Committee gets underway
The NFLA Weed Committee met on September 30th with members Valerie Cox, John Frederick, Will Hammerquist, Annemarie Harrod and Steve Weber present in order to set goals and to assign tasks for our first year....
Oct. 16 , 2009—NFLA Road Committee working hard
In September, 2008, President Molly Shepherd appointed Margaret Heaphy, Betsy Holycross, Ed Heger, Steve Berg and Steve Weber to the road committee which was charged with examining the background of past actions on the North Fork Road....
Oct. 6 , 2009—Food drive a big success
A proposal was made at the NFLA's Sept. meeting that food and donations for the Columbia Falls Food Bank be collected at the October meeting....
Oct. 5 , 2009—Ninko Creek fire is fully confined
On Friday, Sept. 18, a fire was discovered at Ninko Creek burning to the west of the 2003 Wedge Canyon Fire and north of Whale Creek...
Sept. 29, 2009—Wildfire Updates
Other than the Ninko Creek fire, the 2009 wildfire season has been generally quiet, reports Michael Dardis, fire-management officer for the Hungry Horse Ranger District...
Aug. 15, 2009—Inside North Fork road reopens
The Inside North Fork Road has reopened according to a July 10 news release from Glacier National Park...
Aug. 8, 2009—Webmaster and editor
Effective Aug. 1, Patti Craig-Hart is Webmaster of www.nflandowners.org. Any questions or comments about the website should be sent to Contact@nflandowners.org...
June 29, 2009—Fire-protection workshop slated for July 8
The North Fork Landowners’ Association Fire Mitigation Committee is planning a not-to-be-missed workshop for North Fork landowners on July 8 from 10 a.m. to noon, immediately preceding the Summer Inter Local Agreement meeting at Sondreson Hall...
May 19 , 2009—Have you seen these bears?
In the hope of mitigating their increasing habituation to humans and food attractants, grizzlies Betsy and Patti were captured and hazed last fall by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks grizzly-bear management...
Feb. 27, 2009—Limited grant money still available for fire protection
A limited amount of cost-share grant money is still available for fuels-reduction treatments around homes...
Feb. 27, 2009—Foresters to receive recognition awards
Members of the North Fork Landowners Association have voted to give thank-you awards to Mike Justus, Bill Swope and Mason Richwine for their work in implementing the fire-mitigation cost-share program...
Jan. 16, 2009—Rich Moy: Champion of North Fork preservation
Officials of the Stillwater and Coal Creek state forests have rejected a proposal by two Whitefish firms to undertake helicopter-skiing operations over the Whitefish Range...
Dec. 11 , 2008—North Fork heli-skiing nixed by forest officials
While many North Forkers might not be familiar with Rich Moy, those who know him recognize that for 30 years he has worked diligently to protect the North Fork from industrial development in the Canadian Flathead...
Oct. 1 , 2008—Nobel laureate predicts dire fires in West
There are some 765 grizzly bears in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, according to a report released Sept. 16 by the U.S. Geological Survey, reports Chris Peterson in the Sept. 18 Hungry Horse News...
Sept. 24, 2008—Mild fire season in 2008
Mild, damp weather has pretty much put a damper on wildfires on the North Fork for 2008...
Sept. 18, 2008—$3 million DNA study pegs grizzly population at about 765 animals
There are some 765 grizzly bears in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, according to a report released Sept. 16 by the U.S. Geological Survey, reports Chris Peterson in the Sept. 18 Hungry Horse News...
Aug. 2, 2008—Shepherd re-elected NFLA president
Molly Shepherd was elected to her second consecutive one-year term as president, and Oliver Meister was elected to his second consecutive one-year term as vice president at the Aug. 2 business meeting of the North Fork Landowners ’ Association at Sondreson Hall...
July 4 , 2008—‘Noxious weeds’ proliferate in Polebridge parade
A feature story by Michael Jamison in the July 5 Missoulian gives a good account of the Fourth of July parade in Polebridge, along with some of its history...
June 7, 2008—Speeders beware!
Flathead County has hired a part-time deputy to patrol unpaved roads in the county, reported North Fork Landowners’ Association North Director Lynn Ogle at the June 7 NFLA business meeting...
April 15, 2008—Kootenai Galton Project
According to a news release from the Kootenai National Forest, the Fortine Ranger District is planning the Galton Project. Deadline for comments was March 30...
Nov. 29, 2007—North Forker nails poacher, eligible for $500 reward
The North Fork Landowners’ Association Poaching Reward Fund has a winner, reports Larry Wilson in his column in the Nov. 29, 2007, Hungry Horse News...
June 2, 2007—John and Nancy Hubble honored at June meeeting
Longtime North Forkers John and Nancy Hubble were presented a plaque honoring their years of service to the North Fork community at the North Fork Landowners’ Association’s June business meeting... |
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