Articles with the Tag: Flathead Lake
PABLO – More than 40 written and verbal warnings were issued to people who blew past the watercraft checkpoint in Pablo last summer, and law enforcement officials say ignorance about what constitutes a “watercraft” likely played a part. “A lot of it, quite frankly, is people with k...
FLATHEAD LAKE – After the conclusion of a years-long process of environmental assessment, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes will begin netting efforts this spring to reduce the number of invasive lake trout in Flathead Lake, in hopes of promoting a rebound of the native and threatened bull tr...
Like lemmings barreling off a cliff into the great unknown, dozens of people decided to face the start of another year’s uncertainty together, by charging from the shoreline of Riverside Park, into the icy 39-degree waters of Flathead Lake, in the annual Polar Plunge on Jan. 1. “It felt ...
Anglers have reached the half way mark of the 2013 Fall Mack Days Fishing Event. Up to $125,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded to the angler’s at the conclusion of Mack Days. Mack Days are sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and sanctioned by Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks. ...
News from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks FLATHEAD LAKE — Bull trout spawning surveys in eight North and Middle Fork Flathead River tributaries were completed by Fish, Wildlife and Parks between Oct. 1-10 and the results are encouraging. Biologists count the number of “redds” o...
News from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Natural Resource Department FLATHEAD LAKE — The fishing on Flathead Lake was phenomenal the first weekend of the 2013 Fall Mack Days Fishing Event. The weather was great for fishing and the anglers were catching. The total for the first weekend o...
POLSON — Lake County Sheriff’s Office and Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputies recovered missing boater Nathan Bird’s body from Flathead Lake at about 12:45 p.m. on Aug. 29, according to Karen Sargeant, LCSO Public Information Officer. Bird, 36, from Huson, Mont., had bee...
POLSON — A man and his two dogs went for a boat ride on Aug. 25 at about 10:30 a.m. The boat left shore at Paradise Cove, a RV resort with cabins on the east shore of Flathead Lake, according to the man’s wife. What happened after that is a mystery since a female who lives on one of the island...
News from the Flathead Lakers YELLOW BAY — Jack Stanford, station director at the Yellow Bay Biological Station, reported that Flathead Lake is in a “very delicate balance” related to nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) inputs. It doesn’t take much additional nitrogen and phosphorus...
POLSON — “We call it our voyage to the end of the world,” Bev Thornton said. Bev and her husband Doug joined 16 other sailboats and about 40 members from the North Flathead Yacht Club in Somers for the club’s 7th annual sail to Polson. The group tied up at the KwaTaqNuk Reso...
