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8 | APRIL 2, 2014 NEWS
FLATHEADBEACON.COM

Just
Sayin’.

“A day doesn’t go by
when I don’t think
about what happened

and ask myself why I
didn’t do something
diferent.”

Jordan Graham during
an emotional sentencing
hearing in federal court last Waterfowl ly
week minutes before being over land along
sentenced to 30 years in the north shore of
prison.
Flathead Lake. A
nearby property
(STORY, PAGE 5)
was donated for
public access and
conservation.
“Had just one solitary
airman spoken up GREG LINDSTROM FLATHEAD BEACON
for integrity, our
Along Flathead River, An Outdoor Legacy Grows
leadership team would
have been able to take
action immediately.”
Glacier Bank donates cent to Flathead Lake Waterfowl Produc-
Col. Robert Stanley, a senior tion Area administered by the U.S. Fish
oicer at Malmstrom Air 30 acres along Flathead
Force Base in Great Falls, who and Wildlife Service, and welcomes os-
was among the nine nuclear River for conservation, prey, teal, marsh wrens and other species
commanders ired last week in to the area.
response to an exam-cheating public access
“Outdoor activities are at the core of
scandal that oicials called Montana values and economic growth,”
unprecedented.
By BEACON STAFF
Beams said in a statement. “We are de-
lighted to be able to provide one more
Hailed as another victory for public point of access to enjoying the quality of
“We’re now in an era
access and conservation along the north life that makes Montana a special place to
where climate change shore of Flathead Lake, a 30-acre property live and do business.”
isn’t some kind of with 3,500 feet of shoreline along the Flat- The donation was announced last
future hypothetical. head River has been donated to Montana’s week, less than a month after another
Outdoor Legacy Foundation.
conservation project protecting 189 acres
We live in an area Glacier Bank owned the rights to the along the north shore of Flathead Lake
where impacts from waterfront property in the Harbor Vil- was oicially completed involving land-
climate change are lage development near the Eagle Bend golf owner Darrell Worm, who agreed to sell

already widespread community as part of a repossession.
his property for a bargain to the state of
and consequential.”
“We wanted to ind the best way to put Montana, which will oversee it as a wild-
that property to use,” said Dennis Beams life management area open to public rec-
Chris Field of the Carnegie with Glacier Bank.
reation.
Institution for Science in The bank decided on conservation, so “Caring for and growing Montana’s
California, the lead author Glacier executives began seeking a non- leverages private support for preserving rich outdoor legacy including its ish, wild-
of a new 32-volume, 2,610- proit organization that could properly and enhancing natural, cultural and rec- life, lora and recreational resources takes
page report released this
week by the United Nations manage the land.
reational resources.
many partners. Glacier Bank’s donation
scientiic panel explaining the The Outdoor Legacy Foundation, for- The donation will provide the public is a true gift to all of us in Montana,” said
worsening impacts of global merly known as the Montana Fish, Wild- with access to the canal of the Eagle Bend George Bettas, executive director of the
warming.
life and Parks Foundation, was founded in Yacht Harbor. The property also enhanc- Outdoor Legacy Foundation.
1999 as a statewide nonproit group that
es the area’s wetland habitat, sitting adja-
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