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Brad Orsted normally avoids naming bears, but Nervous Nelly wasn't an ordinary bear. Over the past decade, dozens of grizzlies, like Nelly, have headed each fall to the fields of private ranches in the Tom Miner Basin in Montana's Gallatin Range, just north of Yellowstone National Park. In the fall of 2015, logging trucks were traversing the ranches, and most of the bears that congregated in the area got so they wouldn't even appear to notice the trucks jostling down the dirt...
Badger-Two Medicine: From Birch Creek and Family Peak in the south, to Lubec Ridge and Elk Calf Mountain in the north, the headwaters of Badger Creek and the Two Medicine River flow down from the sacred summits of Feather Woman and Heart Butte, Scarface and Morningstar, Half Dome and Kiyo Crag, Goat Mountain and the Bruin Peaks. This is classic east-of-divide country with the northern Great Plains of the Blackfeet Nation stretching far to the east. Immediately south of...
Racism: the belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. 2. Discrimination or prejudice based on race. Democrats have always used race to obtain power. At first they championed slavery and divided the country, and after the civil war they used their political and police power to pass laws and actions denying blacks basic human and civil rights. After Supreme Court rulings; Republican legislation;...
Lewis and Clark County 911 Center received twenty-three calls for service during the week of July 26 through Aug. 1. Deputies performed four traffic stops in the Lincoln area. One of those calls generated a case report last week: Deputies responded to a report of a disorderly female in the 100 block of Spring Creek Ln, Monday, July 27th. Later, the female was placed in protective custody and taken to St. Peter's Medical Group. Other calls for service in the Lincoln area last...
When the Corps of Discovery passed through Montana in 1805 Capt. Meriwether Lewis described a "new kind of white or silvery trout,"-the Arctic grayling, a member of the salmon family that depends on clean, cold-water streams. Montana is now the only place in the lower 48 states with native populations of fluvial (river-dwelling) Arctic grayling. Over time, its historic range has been drastically reduced due to habitat loss, fragmentation, overharvest, nonnative species, and...
Robert W. Ledeau, known as Pepe' to his many friends, left this world July 18, 2020 after a brave battle with cancer. Bob spent his final days attended to by caring Hospice helpers and close friends in his handcrafted log home on "Our River Bottom". In keeping with his generous nature, his land and home were left to the Lincoln Community Hall. Pepe began the journey Feb. 9, 1950 in Missoula, Mont., and spent his youth on the family farm in aptly named Frenchtown, Mont. Bob...
Longtime resident and Lincoln Telephone Company President Bob Orr has lived in Lincoln for the better part of 75 years. "I came with my folks. I was only five years old," said Orr, who moved to Lincoln in 1942. An article from Gold Pans and Singletrees shares that Orr's parents also served as caretakers for the 7-Up Ranch properties. "My dad was at that time logging," said Orr. After attending grade school in Lincoln, Orr started high school in Simms, as Lincoln didn't have a...
With the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force reportedly preparing to release a report on UFO encounters, it seemed like a good time to take a look back at perhaps the earliest recorded UFO sighting In Montana, which happened just east of Lincoln near Cadotte Pass. Montana is no stranger to UFOs. Today, Montana is ranked number two on a list of states with the most UFO sightings. One of the most notorious - and difficult to explain - UFO films comes from Great...
Remember way back when this whole virus thing started? Yeah, although it's only been about four months, it feels like forever to me too. But, think back, I wrote a column about it, probably in early April. In it, I talked about fear, and how I was less scared of the virus itself, and far more frightened by the ugliness of people and the divisiveness that I was feeling. Sadly, my fears have become more of a reality than I could have imagined, and believe it or not, they are...
Montana's economy has wilted and withered since the so-called pandemic arrived in early March. Our "wannabe president/wannabe senator/lame duck governor" has done little except bankrupt main street merchants. Revenues for state government are sinking. As veteran state legislators and members of the Senate Finance and Claims Committee, this troubles us. It appears that our state coffers are being drained so the next legislature will inherit serious red ink. President Trump,...
In the past five months, Congress has responded to the coronavirus public health crisis with several emergency relief measures, including the stimulus checks sent to individuals and households, payroll protections to small businesses, expanded unemployment payments, fee waivers for borrowing against 401(K) plans and more. Now, Congress will get the opportunity to pass a relief measure that protects your access to trustworthy local news, helps grow local businesses through ads...
Dr. Scott Bovard of the Missoula Veterinary Clinic and Brooke Tanner, director of the Wild Skies Raptor Center released an immature female bald eagle earlier this week. The eagle was hit by a semi near Arrastra Creek Feb. 20. Lincoln Ranger District wildlife biologist Pat Shanley and Beech Hasting, the district's mineral administrator located the eagle after the report of the accident reached the Ranger Station. They took the bird to Wild Skies in Potomac. Bovard performed...
As a child, Kyle Greenwood would watch his father Jim pull lawnmowers out of the trash, repair them and sell them. Jim gave that sideline up for a few years, but around ten years ago, when Kyle was about 16 he took an interest in fixing things, so Jim started recovering lawnmowers again. "We stated fixing them and selling them," Kyle said. "Made a lot of money that way. At least when you're 16, it seemed like a lot of money." From push mowers, Kyle moved on to riding mowers...
The historic Lincoln Community Hall normally plays host to several events throughout the year, but this year COVID-19 has changed that. Large community events generate important rental income for the Community Hall, and like other local businesses, it has felt some of the financial impact since the virus began. A local group of quilters meet there each Thursday, to not only work on their own projects, but to work on a community quilt that's normally raffled off at the annual...
