Max Baucus

For decades, the North Fork has been threatened by oil and gas and mining proposals at British Columbia.

ConocoPhillips is voluntarily returning 169,000 acres of their suspended oil and gas leases to the Department of Interior.

Companies will likely make more money by negotiating out of leases by avoiding the costly uphill battles

We stand ready to work with Senators Baucus and Tester, the Committee and Senate staff to ensure this bill is refined and quickly becomes law.

It is important to see S. 3075's withdrawal boundary expanded to 'fill the gap' around Glacier Park.

We sincerely thank Senators Baucus and Tester for their leadership on this issue.

In 2006 Senator Baucus sponsored legislation that withdrew 500,000 acres of public lands along the Rocky Mountain Front from oil and gas leasing.

S. 3075 is a necessary and essential piece of legislation to complete this legacy.

We would like to go on the record as supporting withdrawal expansion requests like these.

We thank Senators Baucus and Tester for introducing this legislation.

Now, after 35 years, we are beginning a new chapter of international cooperation in the North Fork.

The benefits of passing S. 3075 are national in scope.

British Columbia, too, is working as good stewards in this effort.

Conoco Phillips should be commended for this decision and their stewardship of this very unique, special place.

Thank you for the opportunity to present written testimony in support of S. 3075, the North Fork Watershed Protection Act of 2010, introduced by Montana Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester.

A hundred years from now, and perhaps much sooner, those who follow us will survey what we have left behind. Let us leave the Flathead as we found it. Let us prove that we care about those who will come after us.

Passage of S. 3075 is absolutely vital to complete this legacy.

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