Oil drilling

I had wished to attend the recent meeting where Cartwright pontificated on keeping Glacier National Park and its surrounding areas pristine. I would have enjoyed responding with some “stir-em-up” comment or question.

Compare the number of folks, probably a good number of Glacier Park employees, that heard his remarks compared to the total number reading your column (about oil drilling on the Blackfeet Reservation, Feb. 22). You have the best podium.

I thank you for having an open mind to what this Blackfeet Nation can and cannot do. We stole it from them and made it to our liking. We just recently paid the Blackfeet back for lost revenues.

Your comparisons of marring the landscape and surrounding areas for 2 million folks to annually visit was priceless. We are thankful the Hungry Horse News has one like you at the helm. There are not many independent thinkers left in the news media and willing to say so. It seems everyone is in lock-step with the environmentalist agenda.

Edwina Bergen

Columbia Falls