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1. Local Man Apparently Drowns in S VF Northern Minnesota Lake
Authorities have identified a Montana man who died in an apparent drowning in a northern Minnesota Lake.
The Cass County sheriff’s office said July 11 that 49-year-old Peter Keller, of Kalispell was swimming in Ten Mile Lake near Hackensack, Minnesota, when he went under the previous Tuesday after- noon. KSTP-TV reports that members of his party pulled him from the water and began CPR.
Paramedics arrived and contin- ued to try to resuscitate him but were unsuccessful.
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2. Firefighters Mop Up Glacier Rim Fire
Firefighters mopped up the Glacier Rim Fire near Columbia Falls after the majority of crews demobilized from the incident last week.
The human-caused fire, situated off the North Fork Road across from Glacier National Park, is contained, according to fire managers. The fire burned 100 acres.
Crews gridded the fire perimeter on July 7 and found a spot fire that was quickly mopped up. On the south flank, crews mopped 200 feet into the interior of the fire line.
Firefighters continued to work the containment lines towards the interior and proceeded with mop up of the fire. The fire was turned back to the district for oversight of the remaining firefight- ers on July 9. The district will also begin rehabilitation efforts.
The Canyon Creek Road reopened to the public.
The Glacier Rim Fire started June 27 and is burning in the old 2003 Robert Fire burned area. The fuels are a mix of heavy dead timber, brush and have a significant snag hazard. It is primarily located west of the North Fork Road, with some spot- ting occurring across the North Fork River into Glacier National Park.
The cause of the incident remains under investigation.
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3. Tribe Breaks Off Talks Over Drilling on Sacred Land
An American Indian tribe in Mon- tana has taken the rare step of breaking off formal talks with the U.S. govern- ment and a Louisiana company that has been seeking for decades to drill for nat- ural gas on land considered sacred by the Blackfeet people.
Blackfeet tribal leaders said that after three rounds of negotiations, they remain steadfast in their opposition to drilling in the Badger-Two Medicine area outside Glacier National Park and see no benefit to further discussions.
“We are not going to speak to anything other than no development,” said Black- feet Tribal Historic Preservation Officer John Murray.
Solenex LLC of Baton Rouge acquired a 6,200-acre energy lease in the Bad- ger-Two Medicine in 1982, but its attempts to develop the site have since been held up by federal officials. The com- pany sued in 2013 to overturn a govern- ment suspension on the leases. It wants to begin drilling this summer.
That case is before U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, who has has sharply crit- icized the government’s handling of the case and the long delay experienced by Solenex.
The head of the law firm representing Solenex said last week that the tribe’s end to the formal consultation process was yet another attempt to delay drilling.
“It’s something the tribe cannot stop,” said William Perry Pendley, president of the Mountain States Legal Foundation. “This land belongs to the U.S. govern- ment, the American people, and our cli- ent has a property right to it.”
Consultations between the tribe, gov- ernment and the other parties in the dis- pute have taken place under a review process that’s guided by federal laws meant to preserve historic and cultural resources.
The Badger-Two Medicine area is the home of the creation story of the four Blackfoot tribes in Canada and Montana and the Sun Dance that is central to their
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