Flathead Valley in B.C. Needs Your Help!

Feature Story from Global BC!

In October, the very popular News Hour with Tony Parsons brought their powerful camera to the distant and troubled Flathead Valley. This feature story exposed B.C. viewers to the latest in this cross-border tale of grizzly bears and risky business.

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What Premier Gordon Campbell should know about the Flathead...

  1. BIOLOGICAL BOUNTY: The greatest density of grizzly bears in the interior of North America survives in the Flathead Valley. The greatest variety of vascular plants in Canada grows in the Flathead Valley.
  2. CLIMATE CHANGE: The Flathead Valley is a crucial corridor for species moving up and down the Rocky Mountains - ever more important as species move northward and up mountains in response to global warming.
  3. INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION: Part of the Flathead Valley should be a national park to fill in the missing piece of the world famous Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. B.C. should join with Alberta and Montana and contribute its equally valuable land to this World Heritage Site.
  4. PRISTINE WATER QUALITY: The Flathead River is an international benchmark of pure water quality due to the undeveloped and wild nature of the valley.
  5. RISKY BUSINESS: The proposed coal and coal bed methane operations near the headwaters of the Flathead River pose an unreasonable, ongoing risk to one of British Columbia's most cherished valleys and a neighbouring United Nations protected area and World Heritage Site. The B.C. government should immediately abandon the proposed coal and methane extraction operations in this exceedingly sensitive area.

Please visit www.flathead.ca for more information.