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A flight over the Lincoln Valley and surrounding mountains provided a different perspective on the legislative proposal unveiled last month by the Upper Blackfoot Working Group. Last Wednesday EcoFlight, a Colorado company that educates and advocates for the environment using small planes, took members of the group and guests on a tour of the proposal area, to get a different perspective on why the group proposed to designate certain areas for conservation management, forest...
The Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department took advantage of an empty house at 728 Main Street in Lincoln to conduct real-world training Saturday, June 22. Using smoke bombs, small piles of burning straw and a simulated casualty, firefighters practiced making their way through a building none of them had been in before, in the low visibility of a smoke-filled building. "It gave us a real-life scenario with live fire and we were able to do different scenarios; from a rescue of an...
The Alliance for Wild Rockies and the Native Ecosystems Council filed suit last week in federal district court to halt implementation of the Willow Creek Vegetation Project southwest of Lincoln. The environmental groups claim the Forest Service designated the area as a "threatened landscape" without conducting the proper environmental analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act. Without that analysis, they claim the public has been denied the opportunity to review or...
A Blackfoot Valley Dispatch photograph of a falling bronc and rider – and the crowd's shocked reaction - earned recognition as the 2019 Mel Ruder Photograph of the Year at the 134th Annual Montana Newspaper Association's Better Newspaper Awards ceremony June 8 in Big Sky. BVD Editor and Publisher Roger Dey shot the image of Blackfoot, Idaho bronc rider Cooper Clemons during a wild ride last year at the Annual Helmville Labor Day Rodeo. "I almost didn't enter the contest t...
The PureView Health Center board of directors voted June 5 to end its 25-year partnership with Lewis and Clark County and strike out on its own as an independent nonprofit in 2020. The move has been under consideration for more than a year, Lewis and Clark County Commissioner Susan Good Geise said at the June 7 Lincoln Government Day meeting. The announcement of the decision comes as PureView prepares to apply for the Health Resource Service Administration grant that has...
Members of the Upper Blackfoot Working Group unveiled their final draft of the Lincoln Valley Public Lands Proposal at a meeting in Lincoln last Wednesday/ Nearly 40 people showed up at the Lincoln Community Hall May 29 to learn more about the proposal that, if successful, would use the legislative process to improve forest management, create additional recreational opportunities and protect sensitive areas on the federal lands around Lincoln. Members of the working group...
The Upper Blackfoot Valley Community Council welcomed three new members and bid farewell to one at their monthly meeting, Tuesday May 21. Lewis and Clark County Commissioner Susan Good Geise swore in Toni Austad, Karyn Good and Roger Dey as the newest members of the council, and thanked Linda Daugherty for her faithful service to the community. Daugherty had planned to resign for personal reasons some time ago, but agreed to stay on until new council members were elected or appointed. “Thank you for hanging on and keeping u...
Cyclists and ATV enthusiasts should have more trails to enjoy in the Lincoln area by the end of the summer as the Beaver Creek Trails Project continues to move forward. The project, funded by an $82,000 Montana State Parks Recreational Trails Program grant that was awarded to the Lincoln Ranger District, got its start last year with district personnel designing, flagging and cutting corridors for about eight miles of mountain bike trails and for a series of connector ATV...
Explosive growth was on the horizon for Lincoln in early 1969. Just 12 years before Lincoln's population and economic prospects saw a boost when, Highway 200 - then Highway 20 - officially opened in 1957, providing a direct route between Missoula and Great Falls. In 1965, the Anaconda Copper Mining Company began exploring development of a copper and molybdenum ore body in the Heddleston mining district - now known as the Upper Blackfoot Mining Complex- and by 1968 there was...
The status quo just isn't working. If there's one thing the members of the Upper Blackfoot Working Group agreed on about the management of the National Forests that surround Lincoln that, that is it. In the last two weeks, the Working Group has been methodically unveiling a legislative proposal they've developed to the Lincoln community, starting with area organizations and groups ahead of a public meeting they have planned for the end of May. Made up of locals with interests...
Blackfoot Pathways: Sculpture in the Wild earned recognition as the winner of Montana's 2019 Heritage and Cultural Tourism award. The Montana Office of Tourism and Business Development announced the award at the Governor's Conference on Tourism & Recreation in Butte Monday night, April 15. Sculpture in the Wild faced competition for the prize from the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena and Libby's Kootenai Country Montana Chainsaw Carving Championship. "We know Sculpture in the...
Lincoln’s April 5 Government Day meeting covered a lot of ground. In Town Trails Karyn Good presented information on the progress of the Envision Lincoln in-town trails project that has been in the works since last year. “Our overarching goal for the in-town trails plan was to create a connected trails system that would connect our existing assets safely, and would be available to all,” she said. “We realize this is a costly process and likely a very long process so we’re starting small.” Good said they began looking fir...
As part of an effort to revitalize the Upper Blackfoot Valley Historical Society by capturing twentieth century history, the UBVHS welcomed locals Joe Youderian and Francis Beehler to a meeting in the back room of Lambkins Saturday, March 6. Over coffee and pastries, Youderian and Beehler shared memories of Lincoln in the fifties, sixties and seventies. The Historical Society hopes to host several such "table talks," and encourages longtime Lincoln residents to join them and...
As 2018 rolled into 2019, the dearth of snow in the Upper Blackfoot Valley was raising concerns we might be in for the return of a warm, dry winter. Around Jan. 20, that concern began to lift as a healthy snow storm rolled in and began more than a month of snow and cold that has seen record February snow falls in many areas. Locally, the recurring storms brought valley snow depths up to a level roughly equivalent with last year. With spring (hopefully) just around the corner,...
It's about 10 a.m. Monday morning as I write this, and things seem off kilter. The snowstorm that has finally blanketed Lincoln with much-needed snow continues outside, but something, or rather someone, is missing. It's at about this time on most Mondays that Bill Frisbee would stop in. Today, it would probably be to take a quick break from clearing parking lots of snow, but most times it was just to chat with my wife, Erin. Sometimes it was about projects or events they were...
I got to know Bill when we served as co-chairmen of the Lincoln hospital district, which was during the design and construction of the new Clinic. That was the only board I have been on, but Bill Frisbee has served on about every committee, board of directors and group associated with Lincoln and the Upper Blackfoot Valley - I believe Bill woke up every day thinking of what he could do to improve his community. Bill's passing brings to mind the lyrics of a song I have been...
November 17, 1964- January 16, 2019 James William (Bill) Frisbee Jr., from Lincoln, Montana, passed away due to medical complications on January 16th, 2019 surrounded by his family. Bill was 54 years old. He was born in Verdun, France on November 17, 1964 to James William Frisbee and Rosellen Decker Frisbee. Bill graduated from Capital High in Helena, Montana in 1983 and married his best friend and college sweetheart Jill Marie Pitsch Frisbee in Hardin, Montana, on January 26,...
On Friday afternoon, Jan. 11, the Lincoln Lady Lynx faced the St. Regis ladies in a non-conference duel at home. The Tigers, on a 6-4 winning streak, have cut a wide swath in the last few years whenever they came to the Blackfoot Valley. Their two senior aces, 5- foot, 8-inch Madison Kelly and Emma Hill at 5-foot , 9-inches, are well known to the local fans as the perennial high scoring nemeses of the Lynx. On this day, portions of the Lady Lynx bench were reserved for the...
Lewis and Clark County Public Works Director Eric Griffin reported that work on the North Lincoln Gulch Road culvert repair is moving along. At the Lincoln Government Day meeting Friday, Griffin said the latest reports from the crew working on the repair is that the culvert had been installed, the headwalls are in place and plans called for them to start backfilling Monday, if weather permits. They hope to have backfilling complete by the end of the week and to begin placing r...
For a little more than three years, the Matt King House has been home to several cats who have taken up residence among the stacked timbers of the building. The disassembled building has been stored behind the Blackfoot Valley Dispatch office since 2015, after Heritage Timber disassembled and moved the structure from its original location east of Sucker Creek Road. Since then the Lincoln Heritage Alliance, which formed as part of the effort to save the historic building, has b...
The Lewis and Clark County Bridge Crew began work last week to repair the washout on North Lincoln Gulch Road, but has hit a snag that will delay the project two to three weeks. Doug Nisbet, the Lewis and Clark County Road and Bridge Operations superintendent, told the BVD Monday that the 85-foot long, 90-inch wide culvert delivered last week came with tapered ends. Plans for the repair called for a culvert with no taper. He said the repair project will proceed according to pl...
When Lincoln Schools English teacher Philip Reed heard two of his students discussing Pearl Jam drummer Jeff Ament's skatepark project last year, he encouraged them to write in to the foundation, nominating Lincoln for a park. "There's s quite a large at-risk community here in Lincoln for young kids that most small towns in Montana really don't have," Reed said. "I think...trying to provide as much for the kids to keep them active and out of trouble...that's one of the big...
Continued mild weather contributed to lower than usual hunter activity and harvest through the second weekend of hunting season in western Montana. "Weather is always the driving factor in big game harvest, especially early in the season," said Mike Thompson, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 2 Wildlife Manager. "When the weather is fairly warm, and we have rain instead of snow, deer and elk don't move much, making them harder to spot and track." This is the first year...
A listening session to discuss and take comments on a potential Rural Improvement District that would cover the cost of applying dust control to the 4x4 Road filled the meeting room at the Lincoln Library for the monthly Lewis and Clark County Commission meeting last Friday. A 4x4 Road RID has been in the works for several months, but suffered a setback in August when Commissioners denied the request to form the district after learning the boundary included a parcel of state...
