Articles with the Tag: Flathead Indian Reservation
News from CSKT Natural Resources Department POLSON — The Tribal Wildlife Management Program is updating the tribes’ Northern Gray Wolf Management Plan for the Flathead Indian Reservation, which was approved by the tribal council in 2011. While the plan has worked well in addressing wolf ...
ST. IGNATIUS – A meeting with the staff of Governor Steve Bullock was seen as a possible in-road to inserting three major concerns some irrigators want put into the proposed Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact, but irrigation commissioners who returned from the talk said no progress was made...
News from Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Natural Resources Department Hunting for pheasants on the Flathead Indian Reservation is a regular highly-anticipated activity for many people and has been so for decades. The habitat on the reservation, especially in the Mission Valley, provides...
Plans for shared water shortage in times of drought, irrigation canal improvements, and delivery of funds were debated by state, tribal, and federal officials Friday in a negotiating session for the proposed Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact. Most of the elements of discussion...
News from the Flathead Reservation Area Historical Society With a deep sense of appreciation and honor after serving for over 16 years, Flathead Reservation Area (FRA) Historical Society, President Joyce Decker Wegner is resigning her office and membership on the board. With the two-volume Lake Coun...
ST. IGNATIUS — Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Division of Fire responded to a report of a wildland fire in the Pistol Creek area of St. Ignatius around 2:15 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20. A CSKT initial attack engine was sent to the fire along with air operations and two Native American Crews...
POLSON – Two-year-old Marguerite Brenner looked a bit red-faced as she floated across the finish line for the first annual Mission Valley Kids Walk Run 5K in Polson. In some ways the tiny tot had a good reason to be exhausted; five kilos is a long way when your legs are that small, but Brenner...
News from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service LAKEWOOD, Colo. – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has extended the public comment period for 14 days on the draft Environmental Assessment for a proposed Annual Funding Agreement that would allow the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes to manage an...
MISSOULA – The Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission brought several narrowly tailored suggestions about how to protect the rights of Flathead Indian Irrigation Project irrigators to a water compact negotiation session between the state, federal and Confederated Salish and Kootenai governmen...
POLSON — Rob McDonald, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal communications director, spoke on the State of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes at the Sept. 3 Polson Chamber of Commerce luncheon. “Relations between the tribes and the larger community are the best they’ve ...
