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A Better Way. A New Kind of Highway is Being Built in Montana – One That Respects The Land, The Animals and The People

The road slices through
pretty country to be sure, but the big
story of U.S. Highway 93 between
Evaro and Polson, Mont., is what’s being
done to maintain the pretty country
while improvements are being made to
the road.

Highway 93 needed work—traffic
was increasing and safety had to be enhanced.
But almost all of the stretch to
be retooled lay in the Flathead Indian
Reservation. And the Confederated
Salish and Kootenai tribes, who call the
reservation home, wanted no part of a
traditional scar-the-earth highway project
inching through their land.

The mentality that has guided developers
all over the country to drain wetlands
in favor of shopping malls and
denude forests in preference for oil wells
was not going to pass muster with the
tribes. Neither was the normal practice
of tearing up pavement, moving dirt and
laying concrete.

By Gary Peterson, Editor of Home & Away

Full Story: http://www.matr.net/files/Montana.pdf

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