Resources

• Selected newspaper stories:
• Tug of War Over the North Shore. Flathead Beacon.
• Planning Board Approves North Shore Subdivision. Flathead Beacon.

•  New  Lakers' March 21, 2008, comments to Flathead County (PDF). This is a long letter with detailed information. A recommended resource.
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•  New  North Shore Deserves a Special Plan (PDF). Oped by Lakers board member Richard Siderius, providing the perspective of a Flathead resident and member of a family that has owned land in the Flathead for over a century.
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• Keep the North Shore Special. Critical details on proposed North Shore Ranch subdivision, and the March 26 hearing on it before the Flathead County Planning Board. Download PDF.
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• Flathead County’s Report on the North Shore Ranch project. The details, published February 22, 2008. Download PDF (824K).
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• North Shore Brochure. What’s special about the North Shore? This beautifully illustrated brochure, produced in cooperation with other organizations, identifies the North Shore’s irreplaceable assets. Download brochure, (PDF1.5MB).
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• North Shore Conservation Project. The Lakers and their partners have devised a plan, a good plan, for conserving the North Shore’s special assets. Download the plan (PDF).
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• North Shore Ranch subdivision proposal. A description of what the developers want to do, and where they want to do it. Download the proposal (PDF). See also the Lakers’ November 21, 2007, letter on the proposal (PDF or HTML).
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• Maps of the North Shore. Two scanned maps from the set of documents that the developers filed with the county. Map 1 (PDF 2.8M). Map 2 (PDF 1.5M).
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• Newsletter reprints. Articles on the North Shore from the Flathead Lake Monitor. From the Fall, 2007, issue: Development Proposals Threatens North Shore (PDF 476K). From the Summer, 2007, issue: Help Protect Flathead Lake’s North Shore (PDF 564K).
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• Google Earth coordinates. Survey the North Shore from above. Download coordinates.