Articles with the Tag: Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission
POLSON — During a five-day road trip around Western Montana, the negotiating teams for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the State of Montana and the United States brought the proposed Water Rights Compact to Polson and solicited comments and questions at a meeting on Nov. 28. From Polson...
The irrigators on the Flathead Irrigation Project need to realize that if the proposed irrigation water use agreement is approved as written, it will not be “business as usual” with regard to irrigation water delivery and will have dire implications for agriculture in the Mission Valley. Prese...
The negotiating teams for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the State of Montana and the United States have completed a proposed water rights compact and released it for public review and comment. The three parties have been working for several years to develop a water rights settlement t...
PABLO — Bill Schultz from the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Water Resources Division narrated a PowerPoint presentation on complete drafts of the reserved water rights compact and ordinance at the Oct. 24 water rights negotiation session. Negotiating team from the Confeder...
Editor, The Char-Koosta’s recent publication (Oct. 11) featuring me on the paper’s front page as, “It brought back old-school anti-Indian rant,” is extremely insulting, as was the newspaper’s accusation of my repetition to an inoperative microphone. Contrary to their descr...
Editor, Why is it that the prime source of contention in the current Reserved Water Rights Compact negotiation for the Flathead Reservation is what’s known as “in-stream flows” for fisheries? What fisheries? This wasn’t, isn’t and never will be an aquarium. Neither t...
I hope everyone is enjoying the cooler fall weather and maybe even anticipating some moisture in some form to alleviate the smoke and dry fields. The people assigned to the huge task of creating and negotiating a water compact agreement have been busy. Many miles have been traveled and a multitude of voices ...
Editor, The current status of the Reserved Water Rights compact for the Flathead Reservation is about as distorted as an image in the fun zone mirrors at a county fair; we couldn’t be further from the truth. Media reporting, with wonderfully tainted articles full of half-truths and non-truths,...
POLSON — The negotiating teams for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, the State of Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission and the United States met on Oct. 1. The teams are working towards presenting a compact to the Montana Legislature in January. With that date looming an...
The Sept. 12 Valley Journal contains a Michael Gale letter regarding negotiations on water rights in the Mission Valley. For one who wants to excoriate the Indians on this reservation, Gale should at least try to get his facts straight. If the Journal will permit me, I would like to help him. Let’s go ...
