Articles with the Tag: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
PABLO — Stones as big as Volkswagen buses hunkered in the rock yard at Cold Springs Granite Company, according to Corwin “Corky” Clairmont, nationally-renowned artist and art instructor at Salish Kootenai College. Clairmont chose a black granite “bus” with some flecks o...
A wild fire started on west Finley Point on the evening of June 21, but the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Division of Fire jumped on it and continued efforts on Monday, with a helicopter dumping water on the flames, two fire trucks on site and firefighters working on the blaze. “The ...
POLSON — In a conference hearing on Tuesday, attorneys for the Flathead Joint Board of Control told Lake County District Court Judge James Manley that the board intends to file for an injunction to halt ongoing implementation of parts of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact passed earlier...
A wild fire started on west Finley Point Sunday evening, but the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Division of Fire jumped on it and continued efforts on Monday, with a helicopter dumping water on the flames, two fire trucks on site and firefighters working on the blaze. “The fire’...
With the sun shining on tipis, campers and tents scattered around the edges of the meadow and Valley Creek winding its way down the drainage, Agnes Vanderburg’s Camp was in full swing the week of June 8-14. Although Agnes has passed, her legacy lives on in the encampment where Salish Kootenai Colleg...
LAKE COUNTY — Summer time means a spike in human-bear conflict, but authorities say there are things people can do to help prevent instances like three in early June where bears had to be euthanized. According to Polson Police Chief Wade Nash an officer shot and killed a black bear on June 5 o...
RONAN — Andrew Koehler noticed people using the walking and biking path along U.S. Highway 93 and thought benches would be a welcome place for people to stop and look at the Mission Mountains. Now two bright orange benches on the west side of the highway offer killer views of the mountains bec...
RONAN – A longtime Ronan tradition of good-hearted community fun will be held in Ronan this weekend as the Ronan Area Chamber of Commerce hosts the annual Crab Crack at Bockman Park. The crack has been a longtime staple since former Chamber Secretary Carlene Bockman was first mailed a flyer by...
News from Natural Resources Department, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes ST. IGNATIUS — On Tuesday, June 9, Tribal Wildlife Biologists lethally removed two female yearling grizzly bears from the St. Ignatius area. Stacy Courville, Tribal Wildlife Biologist, reported that these bears were very...
HELENA – A public relations firm hired by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to sway public opinion about a tribal water compact did help form a grassroots lobbying group related to the compact, but the expenditures the tribal government made to do so were exempted from lobbying reports becaus...
