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Updated 1 June 2001

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The State of the Lake. Professor Jack Stanford's annual summation of the lake's health.
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Indian Culture and Historic Perspectives of Flathead Lake. Salish and Kootenai College President Dr. Joe McDonald's keynote address at the Laker's annual meeting on 31 August 2000.

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How high will your boat float? Flathead Lake levels explained for the pre and post Kerr Dam periods. Hydrographs for key years, and special graphs of the great floods of 1933, 1948, and 1964. This section is unique to the internet.

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Flathead Lake and River Fisheries Management Process. An effort among agencies, citizens, and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai to cooperate on managing these fisheries. Progress reports at the top left of the page.

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Montana Power ask for postponement of North Shore revetment construction. Read letters to FERC from MPC and Interior.

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Why Flathead Lake Filled Slowly in 1999. We asked the Montana Power Company for an explanation -- and got one.

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Montana's New No Wake Law (aka Jet Ski Law). The new law went into effect on 1 June 1999.

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Treasure of the Treasure State. State Senator Mike Taylor's keynote address at the Lakers's annual meeting on 27 June 1999.

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Flathead Lake Fishing Report. What's biting where, and on what.

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Highlights of the Year for the Flathead Lakers. It was a very good year for the Lakers. By Executive Director Robin Steinkraus.

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Clean Water's Biggest Threat: Polluted Runoff...the critical problem now for the nation and the Flathead is controlling polluted runoff or "nonpoint" sources...

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Lake Monitoring Program Safe. A success story! During the past year, the Flathead Lakers worked to help make sure water quality monitoring in Flathead Lake and its tributaries continues...

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Funding Crisis for monitoring Flathead Lake. People still drink the water, but certain politicians would rather not know what's in the water. A collection of the most important articles on this issue.

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State of Flathead Lake, 1998. Presented by Dr. Jack Stanford, director of the University of Montana's biological station on Flathead Lake, on 21 June 1998, at the Lakers' annual meeting in Bigfork.

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Lakers 1998 Accomplishments & Plans. By Robin Steinkraus, Lakers Executive Director. "...the Flathead Lakers have taken major steps during this year to increase our influence in decisions that will affect water quality. We strengthened both our internal operations and our programs..."

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Flathead Lake & River System Fisheries Management Plan. By Joe DosSantos, CSKT Fisheries Manager, and Jim Vashro, MDFWP. Regional Fisheries Manager.

What Are Your Chances of Sighting the Monster? Loch Ness has nothing on Flathead Lake, according to Laney Hanzel, retired fisheries biologist. Laney's fascinating history of "sightings" on Flathead Lake is a must read.

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