How citizens can make themselves heard regarding potential impacts to Glacier National Park, Flathead Lake, and the Flathead River Basin, from potential coal mining in the British Columbian headwaters basin of the North Fork Flathead River.

Advise the following public officials that coal mining anywhere in the North Fork could produce significant impacts to water quality, migratory fish such as bull trout, and threatened and endangered species such as the grizzly bear and gray wolf. Emphasize the importance of the Waterton-Glacier Internation Peace Park, Biosphere Reserve, and World Heritage Site. Remind them of the proposal to strip mine coal at Cabin Creek, and of the reaction thereto. Ask them to establish effective international mechanisms for oversight of the project and state that those mechanisms and related activities must be open to the public, both for scrutiny and meaningful input.

Senator Max Baucus, 511 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20510. Voice: 202-224-2651. Fax: 202-228-3687. Kalispell voice: 756-1150. Email: max@baucus.senate.gov. Remember to thank Senator Baucus for his good works in the Flathead in the past.

Senator Conrad Burns, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510. Email: conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov. Kalispell office, 575 Sunset Blvd. Voice: 257-3360. Fax: 257-3974.

Representative Rick Hill, 1037 Longworth HOB, Washington, D.C. 20515. Voice: 202-225-3211. Fax: 202-225-5687. Email: rick.hill@mail.house.gov. No Kalispell office.

Governor Marc Racicot, Capitol Station, Helena, MT 59620. Home page.

Hon. Glen Clark, Premier of British Columbia, 156 Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C., V8V 1X4. Voice: 250-387-1715. Fax: 250-387-0087.