Emails show Forest Service hoped to keep Columbia Mountain tram plans quiet

Newly revealed emails show that the Flathead National Forest under then supervisor Kurt Steele looked to keep a proposal of a tram up Columbia Mountain from public view for more than year prior to it being first proposed.

Pursuit, the company that owns several resort properties in the Flathead Valley and in Glacier National Park, floated the idea of the tram to the Forest Service in December 2021, according to emails obtained by the Swan View Coalition through a Freedom of Information Act request...