Feds pass on funding North Fork Road paving study

Flathead County did not receive federal funding for an environmental analysis to look at paving a portion of the North Fork Road, county Public Works Director Dave Prunty confirmed last week.

The county sought Federal Lands Access Program (FLAP) monies to perform a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review of improving the road from just north of Glacier Rim to the Camas Road entrance to Glacier National Park earlier this year, but the analysis went unfunded.

The debate on whether to pave the road any further than it is now has been argued for decades.