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Report recommends the creation of a park in the Flathead and an adjacent Wildlife Management Area to guard against climate change impacts

A new report from the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada (WCS Canada) creates a conservation strategy that will promote wildlife resiliency in the Southern Canadian Rockies to the future impacts of climate change and road use. The report's "safe passages and safe havens" were informed in part by an assessment of six iconic species -- bull trout, westslope cutthroat trout, grizzly bears, wolverines, mountain goats and bighorn sheep -- five of which were ranked as highly vulnerable to projected changes.

Flathead border site location of multi-discipline camp

By Ian Cobb for e-Know

It is as large as the Columbia and Kootenay valleys, though not as lengthy.

It has been the epi-centre of several environmental issues, including mining, fracking and park creation/addition.

It is unbridled and unparalleled wilderness splendor that is halted by an invisible line.

It is the Flathead Valley south of Fernie/Sparwood.

Flathead builds buzz at CCHS

By Hamish MacLean
The Canmore Leader

January 26, 2011

The conservation movement that aims to have a corner of southeastern British Columbia named Canada's next national park, came to the Bow Valley Thursday.

ConocoPhillips will retire oil and gas leases in US Flathead

More than 100 oil and gas leases – covering nearly 170,000 acres on Glacier National Park’s western border – will be retired voluntarily by energy giant ConocoPhillips, as part of a plan to protect outdoor recreation in the region.

“This is a very big deal,” said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. “I have worked toward this for 35 years, and now we are closer than ever to protecting the Flathead once and for all.”

Could Flathead Valley be Canada's next national park?

Ralph Gravelle's pickup grinds to a halt on the Phillips Creek logging road. We have travelled only a few kilometres, but already deep snow and ice make it impossible to continue.

The Ktunaxa (pronounced “k-too-nah-ha”) elder from Tobacco Plains stands silently at the roadside as we haul heavy backpacks from his truck and adjust our headlamps. Heavy white flakes pour down from the dark night sky.