"The idea is to fill in that missing piece of Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park and create a wildlife corridor that would extend from Whitefish to Banff," Michael Proctor, the lead researcher for the Trans-border Grizzly Bear Project, told the Missoulian (http://bit.ly/wcwdQU). Ecologists say adding that piece would help bighorn sheep, grizzly bears, wolverines, mountain goats, bull trout and other native fish. On the Canadian side, the British Columbia Parliament in November approved legislation protecting the river basin from mining and energy development.
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