The Flathead River contains some of the last pure strains of Westslope Cutthroat Trout.
Photo by Michael Ready, iLCP
A few of the ridgetops in the Flathead are protected as a BC provincial park, but the Valley bottoms are not protected.
Photo by Garth Lenz, iLCP
Continental Divide, Waterton Lakes National Park Alberta, just beside Flathead Valley, B.C.
Photo by Garth Lenz, iLCP
On the right, Glacier National Park in Montana. On the left, BC's Flathead River Valley. Open to mining, hunting, logging and gas development.
The Flathead has the highest diversity of flowering plants in Canada!
Photo by Garth Lenz, iLCP
by Joe Riis, iLCP