Transportation and its effects on the environment are important factors when considering Glacier Northwest’s proposal to barge sand and gravel from its mine on Maury Island. Vashon and Maury ...

No other mine in the country produces more sand and gravel: 5.5 million tons in 2006, according to Glacier Northwest’s Scott Nicholson. That’s more than 10 percent of all the aggregates ...

The issue of who owned the sand and gravel was raised but not resolved during the 2008 legislative session. ... Glacier proposes an increase in mining from 10,000 tons annually to 2 million tons ...

Glacier has been battling Vashon Island residents and environmentalists for 11 years, trying to turn the property into a major extraction and shipping operation.

OLYMPIA -- Opponents of a gravel mine on the eastern edge of Maury Island won an important victory Monday when the state Senate narrowly passed a bill requiring the state to determine who owns the ...

His latest run-in in McHenry County involves the Glacier Lake gravel pit on Keystone Road in Richmond. Pease has mined the site, about 70 acres, for the past several years and wants to continue ...

DuPONT, Wash. — A bid by Glacier Northwest to expand its sand and gravel mine in this historic village has reopened a decades-long land-use battle involving the Sequalitchew Creek Canyon, a ...

The Flathead County commissioners reluctantly approved an "appalling" lawsuit settlement Thursday, clearing the way for a gravel pit near the entrance to Glacier National Park. West Glacier ...

WEST GLACIER - A gravel pit less than one-fourth mile from Glacier National Park would expand to 24 acres, from 2 acres, under a plan before the Montana Department of ...

WEST GLACIER - A gravel pit less than one-fourth mile from Glacier National Park would expand to 24 acres, from 2 acres, under a plan before the Montana Department of ...

This was a glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF), ... This material played a key role in the flood damage, as many downstream villages were buried under meters of sand and gravel.

WEST GLACIER (AP) -- A gravel pit less than one-fourth mile from Glacier National Park would expand to 24 acres, from 2 acres, under a plan before the Montana Department ...