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DATA POINTS
“I hope I don’t die before I see some improvement of how we manage our federal lands,”
Chuck Roady, director of F.H. Stoltze Land and Lumber, after Weyerhaeuser Company announced it was closing two mills in Columbia Falls.
$2,531,972
Amount Flathead County will receive this year from the federal government’s Payment in Lieu of Taxes program. The money goes to counties where large swaths of land are held by the federal government and thus cannot be taxed. The money supports schools, road projects and rst responders.
$1.322
Amount the British pound was worth June 27 compared to the U.S. dollar. Following the Brexit vote, the pound dipped to its lowest level in 31 years.
$21,200
Reward for information leading to the person or persons who illegally killed a federally protected grizzly bear and dumped it in eastern Idaho after removing some of its front claws.
4-4
Vote by the Supreme Court last week on President Barack Obama’s immigration plan. The tie vote blocked the plan to shield millions living in the U.S. illegally from deportation.
THE GOOD
RAIN
As re season begins, Kalispell has received 1.34 inches of rain in June, considerably more precipitation than last year but still below the annual June average by .93 inches.
THE BAD
MILL CLOSURES
The valley was devastated by the June 22 announcement that timber giant Weyerhaeuser Company was closing two mills in Columbia Falls.
“I do not think it would be right for me to try to be the captain that steers the country to its next destination.”
Prime Minister David Cameron, who announced last week that he would resign by October after Britain voted to leave the European Union. Cameron led the campaign to keep Britain in the EU.
360B / SHUTTERSTOCK.COM
THIS WEEK’S POLLS FROM FLATHEADBEACON.COM
SHOULD SUPER DELEGATES BE ELMINATED FROM THE PRIMARY ELECTION PROCESS?
TOTAL VOTES
DO YOU LIGHT OFF FIREWORKS FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY?
TOTAL VOTES
WERE YOU SURPRISED BY THE MILL CLOSURES IN COLUMBIA FALLS?
TOTAL VOTES
67% NO *READER POLLS ARE NOT SCIENTIFIC
161
212
252
84% YES 6
16% NO
31% YES
33% YES
69% NO
JUNE 29, 2016 // FLATHEADBEACON.COM