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If this Universe has a Creator, she must have been having a good day when she created birds. They are colorful and dull, helpful and ruinous. They eat bird seed, harmful insects, even our garbage. They will also ruin your clean car and carry off your cat at night. They nest in trees, on the ground and even underground. Yes, even underground. A friend called a couple of years ago excited that a pair of burrowing owls had taken up residence in an abandoned gopher hole on her...
The Montana Trapping Advisory Committee will hold its first meeting July 10 and 11 in Helena at the Montana Wild facility, 2668 Broadwater Ave. Trapping has been and remains controversial. Therefore, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks assembled a citizen committee representing the spectrum of opinions on trapping to provide recommendations to FWP that ensure population viability of trapped species, the humane treatment of animals, and minimize social conflict. During the first...
When I was in Brazil this last time I was reminded of what our mothers, grandmothers, and those before them must have gone through before running water and electricity. I don't know how they did it. Their work load was immense and never lessened. The men had somewhat regular hours – either because of darkness or a need to rest the horses. The women worked from the time their feet hit the floor in the morning until they got the last child to sleep at night. Many of them s...
MISSOULA– Forests, one of the most dominate ecosystems on Earth, harbor significant biodiversity. Scientists have become increasingly interested in how this diversity is enhanced by the sheltering microclimates produced by trees. A recent University of Montana study suggests that a warming climate in the Pacific Northwest would lessen the capacity of many forest microclimates to moderate climate extremes in the future. The study was published in Ecography: A Journal of S...
The Lincoln Community Hall stands as the oldest building on Lincoln's Main Street, the sole survivor of the era when the area's original miners were the "old timers," ranching held sway over the community's economy, and summer homes and tourists were the exception rather than the rule At that time, Carter V. Rubottom and his wife Nora ran a cattle ranch about two miles west of Lincoln. Several decades later, Rubottom recorded his recollections of the era in an unpublished...
During last summer's fire season, flames from the Alice Creek fire swept across Lewis and Clark Pass, scorching the area's whitebark pine, damaging the trails in the area and destroying a Forest Service sign marking Meriwether Lewis' passage across the divide on July 7, 1806. Last week, a small group of volunteers recruited by the Montana Wilderness Association and the Continental Divide Trail Coalition replaced that sign and spent five days rehabilitating and re-blazing a...
This year business and organizations heeded the call for additional floats for the parade after a period of years when they were few and far between and people were beginning to notice...
Rodeo Results Bareback 1st J2 Bridges 80 2nd Dalton May 75 3rd Dustin Morigeau 64 Saddle Bronc 1st Kolby Kitson 61 2nd Brett Door 54 Bull Riding 1st Jade Murphy 73 2nd Tanner Therialt 69 Steer Wrestling 1st Ben Ayre 7.99 2nd Garett Yeager 9.33 3rd Tuck Johnson 11.41 4th Caden Camp 15.25 Calf Roping 1st Colt Stonehocker 3.61 2nd Caden Camp 14.83 3rd Ben Ayre 16.05 4th Ty Hedrick 16.54 Team Roping 1st 5.28 Alonzo Skunkcao & Jake Cerni 2nd 5.69 Alonzo Skunkcao & Manny Boggs 3rd...
Kids taking part in this year's Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild Summer Education Program had the chance to get "Wild About Art" with artists John and Souheir Rawlings last week. Every year, Sculpture in the Wild partners with Lincoln School's POUNCE after school program to host the four-day program that in one way or another looks to history and the natural world as sources of inspiration for artwork designed by the kids who take part. "This was all based on nature...
Lincoln Public School Superintendent Carla Anderson officially announced that they will be offering public preschool for kids as young as three-and-a-half years old at the start of the new school year that begins Aug. 27. The chance to offer preschool came about when Lincoln school received a Montana Comprehensive Literacy Project grant to improve literacy skills for disadvantaged kids at all grade levels, which includes paying special attention to the development in...
Toby Dahl United Property Owners of Montana Governor Bullock’s decision to eliminate the State Land Board’s oversight of multimillion-dollar state conservation easements is troubling to say the least. No elected official should have the power to spend taxpayer dollars so casually, without any checks or balances. That type of power breeds corruption. That’s exactly why the Land Board exists in the first place—to ensure that big, expensive land deals are handled properly. In other words, the Land Board was established in our...
