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Flathead Lake Montana — October 9, 2011
While this may look like Alaska, today I am at Flathead Lake where the University of Montana conducts research on fisheries and climate change. The Montana Nonprofit Association asked us to assist them in a retreat with one of their most significant members.
I was lucky enough to get to come to this beautiful part of our country, just outside of Kalispell about 65 miles south of the Canadian border.
My smidgen of insight this time is how lucky we are in Alaska to live in an environment that so many people in the Lower 48 wish for. While Montana is truly beautiful and has many wilderness areas, it is still easier for people to invade their remote places than it is in Alaska.
Everyone else seems to want to live in a place as clean and wild as Alaska. Therefore, I think we owe it to others to give our best effort to balancing economic development with conserving the environment we love.
Some say that if it could be done anywhere, it should be done in Alaska.
I hope that is so.
Dennis
