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2023 Summer Interlocal Meeting a resounding success

Rob Davies, Hungry Horse/Glacier View district Ranger, making presentation at 2023 Summer North Fork Interlocal, July 12, 2023 – W. K. Walker

Sponsored by the North Fork Trails Association, this summer’s North Fork Interlocal Agreement Meeting was a resounding success. Kudos to all the folks who came together to make it a real community-based event. Extra credit is due to the lunch crew who not only fed about 50 people, but organized the transformation from meeting room to dining hall and back again, all in the space of an hour.

We had 70 people there, including about 28 agency representatives from (deep breath) the Flathead National Forest, Glacier National Park, Montana FWP, Montana DNRC, Flathead County, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, The Glacier Institute and the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (no, really!). And we only finished 10 minutes late.

Wow!

Hay Creek Drainage partially closed due to slide damage

Hay Creek Drainage from West End

One of the two gates in the Hay Creek Drainage opened on schedule July 1; the other remains closed for a few more days. The Moran Creek Road (Rd 5241) gate is open, allowing motorized access as far as the Moran Creek Trail #2 trailhead. The gate across Hay Creek Road (Rd 376) at the 5.5. mile point will remain closed for a while due to slide damage about two miles past the gate.

Glacier View & Hungry Horse trail condition reports for June 23 posted

Brushing out along Hay Creek Trail #3, July 9, 2022 – W. K. Walker

The June 23, 2023 Forest Service Trail Condition Reports for the Glacier View and Hungry Horse Ranger Districts have been posted to the website Trail Conditions page.

These reports contain a fair amount of useful information. Besides trail conditions, they include trail numbers, their official names and end-to-end mileages. The reports may also list information on trail and area closures, especially during fire season.

FIRE DANGER IS LOW