Sept. 17- 20, 2020
Granite, Drummond face off
Holly Hauptman (right) smacks the ball back to Reece Pitcher and Amelia Hill during last week’s cross-county volleyball game. For more from the game, see page 7.
Senior Center faces cleanup costs
Vera Johnson, Board Chair for the Philipsburg Senior Center, appeared before the Granite County Commissioners last week looking for assistance with the cleanup effort associated with the Broadway Street lots that were donated to the center earlier this year.
“As Board Chairman of the Senior Citizens, I’m here to ask what you as Commissioners can do for us,” Johnson said.
She reported that the Philipsburg Rotary Club had already said that they are willing to help with the effort, but that the Senior Center would only be allowed to dispose of 2,000 pounds of material at the town dump, and Rotary was concerned about the disposal costs of any excess material from the site if they don’t get some additional financial assistance.
Coalition repairs trout habitat on Boulder Creek
The Clark Fork Coalition held a virtual field trip last month to talk about their recently completed work on Boulder Creek near Maxville.
The 70 square mile tributary drains into Flint Creek and ultimately out to the Upper Clark Fork. It had been identified for priority projects for habitat restoration and conservation years ago.
The Clark Fork Coalition, along with partners from the United States Forest Service, Watershed Restoration Coalition, Montana Natural Resource Damage Program, Fish, Wildlife and Parks and private landowners have been working on habitat and fish passage projects in the Boulder Creek drainage for nearly a decade, Clark Fork Coalition Education Manager Lily Haines said during the webinar. In 2017, the Natural Resource Damage Program (NRDP) invested in two large native trout habitat restoration projects on private land.
“Collaboratively, partners have invested over $1 million to date to restore a healthy watershed and improve this stronghold for native trout,” Haines said.
“The key to success are the landowners,” Restoration Director at Clark Fork Coalition Will McDowell said during the “field trip.”
Commissioners bemoan FERC as dam costs rise
Granite County Commissioners met with Sen. Jon Tester’s western Montana field representative last week to discuss their ongoing issues with dam maintenance costs.
Commissioner Chuck Hinkle explained to Deborah Frandsen, Tester’s representative, that the county has had to put Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) money into the dam maintenance fund to compensate for rising costs for required studies.
“That’s not really good I don’t think,” Hinkle said.
Over the past two years, the county has put over $100,000 into the fund that pays for maintenance and associated costs with the dam at Georgetown Lake, the commissioners estimated last Tuesday.
Commissioner Scott Adler said that once the Oroville Dam in California collapsed, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) “went crazy,” asking for additional studies and adding requirements.
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Holly Hauptman (right) smacks the ball back to Reece Pitcher and Amelia Hill during last week’s cross-county volleyball game. For more from the game, see page 7.
Senior Center faces cleanup costs
Vera Johnson, Board Chair for the Philipsburg Senior Center, appeared before the Granite County Commissioners last week looking for assistance with the cleanup effort associated with the Broadway Street lots that were donated to the center earlier this year.
“As Board Chairman of the Senior Citizens, I’m here to ask what you as Commissioners can do for us,” Johnson said.
She reported that the Philipsburg Rotary Club had already said that they are willing to help with the effort, but that the Senior Center would only be allowed to dispose of 2,000 pounds of material at the town dump, and Rotary was concerned about the disposal costs of any excess material from the site if they don’t get some additional financial assistance.
Coalition repairs trout habitat on Boulder Creek
The Clark Fork Coalition held a virtual field trip last month to talk about their recently completed work on Boulder Creek near Maxville.
The 70 square mile tributary drains into Flint Creek and ultimately out to the Upper Clark Fork. It had been identified for priority projects for habitat restoration and conservation years ago.
The Clark Fork Coalition, along with partners from the United States Forest Service, Watershed Restoration Coalition, Montana Natural Resource Damage Program, Fish, Wildlife and Parks and private landowners have been working on habitat and fish passage projects in the Boulder Creek drainage for nearly a decade, Clark Fork Coalition Education Manager Lily Haines said during the webinar. In 2017, the Natural Resource Damage Program (NRDP) invested in two large native trout habitat restoration projects on private land.
“Collaboratively, partners have invested over $1 million to date to restore a healthy watershed and improve this stronghold for native trout,” Haines said.
“The key to success are the landowners,” Restoration Director at Clark Fork Coalition Will McDowell said during the “field trip.”
Commissioners bemoan FERC as dam costs rise
Granite County Commissioners met with Sen. Jon Tester’s western Montana field representative last week to discuss their ongoing issues with dam maintenance costs.
Commissioner Chuck Hinkle explained to Deborah Frandsen, Tester’s representative, that the county has had to put Payment In Lieu of Taxes (PILT) money into the dam maintenance fund to compensate for rising costs for required studies.
“That’s not really good I don’t think,” Hinkle said.
Over the past two years, the county has put over $100,000 into the fund that pays for maintenance and associated costs with the dam at Georgetown Lake, the commissioners estimated last Tuesday.
Commissioner Scott Adler said that once the Oroville Dam in California collapsed, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) “went crazy,” asking for additional studies and adding requirements.
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