What Are They Thinking? I Hate Stoopidity!

Later this month the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations will meet in Spain to decide if a proposed Canadian strip-mine in the headwaters of Montana's Glacier National Park places the Park "In Danger."

Glacier National Park comprises the U.S. portion of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, the world's first Peace Park Created in 1932 as a symbol of the peace and friendship between Canada & the United States.

Both Glacier and its Canadian cousin, Waterton Lakes National Park, provide critical habitat for the Peace Park's largest and most sensitive species that make the area one of only two fully intact ecosystems left in the Lower 48. But one area around the Peace Park particularly rich in wildlife is unprotected on the Canadian side.

Take action to save this special park now.

Specifically, the proposed strip-mine would dump over 325 million tons of waste rock into a tributary of the Flathead River.

The Flathead River Valley forms the western boundary of Glacier National Park and its rich wide open lands and pristine waters provide habitat for grizzlies, wolves, lynx, wolverines, threatened bull trout and genetically-pure westslope cutthroat trout. But the strip-mine proposal threatens to turn this biological heart of the Peace Park into an industrial playground.

Any leakage of waste could reach and contaminate Glacier Nation Park within 24 hours!

Canadian and U.S. officials need to hear from you before the World Heritage Committee meeting in Spain later this month. Please tell them this threat to Glacier National Park and the Flathead Valley is unacceptable and that the Flathead River Valley needs to be permanently protected.

Best wishes,

Kathy Kilmer
The Wilderness Society