Description of the monitoring program. Excerpts from a Flathead Lakers white paper.
Program and Funding Summary. Lakers Special report of 12 September 2002. Water quality is declining, and so is funding for the vital program that monitors water quality.
State of the Lake reports by Dr. Jack Stanford, director of the University of Montana's Biological Station at Yellow Bay:
Lakers exchange letters with Governor Martz and Senator Baucus in 2001-2002:
- Lakers to Governor Judy Martz
- Response from Governor Martz
- Lakers to Senator Max Baucus
- Response from Senator Baucus
The funding crisis of 1998. Penny-wise and pound-foolish policies that would have killed the monitoring program ran afoul of citizens who cared about the lake.
- Lake Monitoring Program Safe. A success story! During 1998, the Flathead Lakers worked to help make sure water quality monitoring in Flathead Lake and its tributaries continues...
- Losing touch with Flathead Lake. By Michael Jamison of the Missoulian. Front page story on politics getting in the way of science. Reprinted with permission.
- Monitoring crisis draws help from private group. By Michael of the Missoulian. Finding the funding to monitor the quality of Flathead Basin waters has become top priority for a local grass-roots organization. Reprinted with permission.
- "Testing the waters will be the key to preserving the quality of Flathead Lake, but doing so will cost money..." By Michael Jamison of the Missoulian. Flathead Lakers send letter to the Flathead Basin Commission. Reprinted with permission.
- Funding Crisis Hits Flathead Lake Monitoring Program. By Robin Steinkraus, Executive Director. Lakers newsletter, Spring, 1998 (will open in new window).
