Threatening the N. Fork

To the editor,

I was very disappointed that the Flathead County Commissioners did not approve the definition of a gravel pit as submitted on behalf of North Fork landowners.

The North Fork Land Use Advisory Committee held many meetings to discuss this issue, and notices of hearings were posted throughout the North Fork. It is not as if the new definition prohibits gravel pits; it doesn’t. It simply clarifies existing language in our zoning.

Further, the memorandum of understanding with British Columbia that seeks to protect the North Fork drainage from mining requires this definition. Given that a polluted North Fork River would affect all of Flathead County, it makes no sense for the commissioners to do something intentionally that would threaten these protections.

Richard E. Wackrow

Polebridge