Jewell to visit Glacier Park next week
CHRIS PETERSON | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years, 4 months AGO
From left, Blackfeet Tribal Business Council Chairman Harry Barnes, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Sen. Jon Tester discuss the Land Buy-Back Program on the Blackfeet Nation in Browning in May. Jewell will be back in the Flathead next week.
Chris Peterson is the editor of the Hungry Horse News. He covers Columbia Falls, the Canyon, Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness. All told, about 4 million acres of the best parts of the planet. He can be reached at [email protected] or 406-892-2151. | August 19, 2016 1:45 PM
U.S. Secretary of Interior Sally Jewell will be in Glacier National Park next week for the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. Jewell is expected to visit the Park on Thursday morning, which is also the birthday of the Park Service.
Jewell will tour the Park with scientists and stakeholders to see firsthand how climate change is affecting the park’s namesake glaciers and other park resources.
In the afternoon, she’s expected to fly to Yellowstone and visit that Park.
Jewell has been to the area a couple of times in her tenure. In 2014 she visited the Flathead Valley to rally for the North Fork Watershed Proctection Act, which ultimately passed.
She was last here to visit the Blackfeet Tribe in May to celebrate a buy-back program that could eventually put 900,000 acres of land back into tribal ownership.
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