Articles with the Tag: Flathead Joint Board of Control
HELENA – After a half-year and hundreds of hours spent analyzing legal and technical aspects of the proposed Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact, proponents and opponents of the agreement devoted much of Oct. 29 and Oct. 30 airing the same talking points that have dominated the conversation ...
ST. IGNATIUS — Disagreement about how to handle mounting costs and a multi-frontal legal battle line preceded the Flathead Joint Board of Control’s narrow decision on Oct. 17 to hire a Kalispell law firm as general counsel. In a 6-5 vote, the board hired the Kalvig Law Firm to replace at...
MISSOULA – The Flathead Joint Board of Control dropped a pending motion for a temporary restraining order on Oct. 2, four days before a hearing that was scheduled to come before Judge Dana Christensen on Monday. Flathead Joint Board of Control Chairman Wayne Blevins said the board wi...
ST. IGNATIUS — The Flathead Joint Board of Control worked last week to create a document that will articulate exactly what its members want included in and excluded from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact. The state attorney general and governor’s office have offered to ...
ST. IGNATIUS — Time and money are short as the Flathead Joint Board of Joint Control tries to prioritize its involvement in four court cases and negotiation of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact. At its Sept. 18 board meeting, the board’s commissioners were divided on whether o...
RONAN – Members of the Flathead Joint Board of Control nearly doubled the administrative assessments of irrigators last week, saying the increase was necessary to build a war chest to fund specialized legal services required in several lawsuits the board is pursuing, and potential action in regards to ...
The melted droplets flowing from snow-packed peaks have carved a course through western Montana that people have used to build civilization and economies for millennia. First, native people utilized the fish, mammals, and plants that drank from and lived in the flowing waters to sustain their popula...
WESTERN MONTANA – The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes hosted a day-long informational session for state legislators in Helena last week about a proposed water compact that would impact much of western Montana. At the same time, irrigators of the Flathead Indian Irrigation Project expresse...
HELENA – At an interim state legislative interim Water Policy Committee meeting last week, irrigators spoke both in favor of and against conceding off-reservation water rights to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in a proposed water compact that was re-opened for narrow negotiation last week....
FLATHEAD RESERVATION – Negotiations of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Rights Compact are set to re-open soon, according to authorities and correspondence between the Tribes and Governor Steve Bullock. Negotiations will be tailored to strictly address the Water Use Agreement that i...
