David Brooks, executive director of Trout Unlimited, promotes the ratification of the Salish Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) compact because it will benefit fish. If you are not a fish, there are 10 major reasons to reject the compact. It gives the Tribe the following:
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The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact is supposed to secure federal reserved water rights. In 1908 in Winters v. United States, the Supreme Court case clarified water rights of American Indian reservations. Known as the Winters doctrine, it stated that when the United States established a reservation for …
Unborn babies should be protected by our Constitution. Genesis 1:26 & 27 record the creation of human life. We were made in the image of God after his likeness. This makes us very special. We are made in the image of God as trio beings (body, soul and spirit) and …
Unborn babies should be protected by our Constitution. Genesis 1:26 & 27 record the creation of human life. We were made in the image of God after his likeness. This makes us very special. We are made in the image of God as trio beings (body, soul and spirit) and …
In the May 26 issue of the Daily Inter Lake, Dick Erb posed a direct challenge to me. He wrote, “I have yet to find a compact opponent, including for example the outspoken critic, Verdell Jackson, willing or able to explain why Water Court adjudication would provide more water with …
In the May 26 issue of the Daily Inter Lake, Dick Erb posed a direct challenge to me. He wrote, “I have yet to find a compact opponent, including for example the outspoken critic, Verdell Jackson, willing or able to explain why Water Court adjudication would provide more water with …
The Flathead Joint Board of Control for the 128,242 acre irrigation project on the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Reservation filed suit against the state of Montana to void the vote on the water compact.
Many misconceptions about the interventions in the sale of Kerr Dam during the last year have been in the media. My interventions were not on the sale of Kerr Dam. I intervened in the license transfer proceedings to require the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes through the Federal Energy Regulatory …
Many misconceptions about the interventions in the sale of Kerr Dam during the last year have been in the media. My interventions were not on the sale of Kerr Dam.
Many misconceptions about the interventions in the sale of Kerr Dam during the last year have been in the media. My interventions were not on the sale of Kerr Dam.
The Flathead Irrigation Project on the CSKT Reservation was built by the federal government to make the reservation productive. Dry land farming was not sustainable without irrigation. The same situation exists in the Flathead.
