Keep North Fork skies and water clear

My home is the North Fork of the Flathead. I have spent many nights staring up at the stars and northern lights, far from the lights of town.

I still enjoy seeing the faces of people who are visiting the North Fork for the first time. They always seem overjoyed to discover a place that is so wild, so natural and so beautiful in this day and age.

For years, the idea of a Canadian coal mine has loomed just upstream. It took decades of neighbor-to-neighbor diplomacy to convince the Canadians to back off this idea, for the sake of the Flathead River, Glacier National Park and Flathead Lake.

Now it’s our turn to show the United States is serious about protecting our share of the North Fork. Thanks to bi-partisan efforts and some exceptional work by Montana’s Congressional delegation, and most recently Congressman Steve Daines, the North Fork Protection Act was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and is one step closer to being signed into law.

Thanks, Congressman. Now it’s up to our champions in the Senate, Sens. Jon Tester and John Walsh, to carry this over the finish line. 

Debo Powers

Polebridge