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Eagles in winter Groundbreaking held conditionally for medical center Bell Crossing subdivision approved Bitter Root Humane Association Three Mile Community Center open
celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary speech, occupa-
by Victoria by by Michael VictoriaHowell Howell
Issues such as increased traffic$140,000. and light is emitted. The source ofhave lightany shelter. ness. The proposed lots will be served a levy, so this won’t tional and physical by individual well and septic systems. lighting did draw some serious expresfully shielded on the top and Howell According The parkshould beadditional impact on people’s therapy services – The Ravalli County Commissioners Both the planning staff report and sions of concern from a few people sides, so as not to emit light upwards It’s been a long time to Colleen board made property taxes. gave conditional approval on January the Planning Board recommended living in the area. or sideways, but only allowing light to including a therapy coming, but the new Three Schmiedeke, the decision In addition to the loan, the Bitterroot Health 3Mile to aCommunity 4-lot commercial subdivision approval of the subdivision request According to Bob Lee, REC Direcshine down towards the subject that is Center is up who serves on to take out a project was paid for by the pool – plus imaging held a groundbreakby Michael Howell and the ribbon at last week’s extending south from Bell Crossing tor of Support Services, the company to becut lighted. and running. Located at 4433 both thewith parksome mitigation requirements as loan to finish Three Mileand Community lab services. ceremony, said the Senior ing last Wednesday intersection along theRoad, west side ofboard and conditions of approval. was placing covenants on the propthatconcerning it was also recogSunnyside Cemetery the the project. Lee said Center (the official name) Bishop said organization’s 50 years of service, “It An new openmedical housesubdivision, celebration was for Highway erty recommending that any lighting a riparian within theits center93. is The on the east side called communityNo impact on the school district is She saidnized they that which raisedarea overexists $80,000 they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old Venture Way, wasbe proposed by thecenter board, expected from the subdivision since for new construction would be “full the subdivision the southern complex that will of Lone Rock Park. The buildworked with throughalong community picnics, 1972 and it’s run by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) new Ravalli Electric Cooperative (REC) it is for commercial development. But cut-off lighting.” A full cut-off fixture boundary of Lot 4. the “So,still we placed facility open ing contains a large they started Farmersladies State in rummage sales, bingo nights built just north of meeting animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” and lies between the highway and the REC did agree to pay $300 per lot to means a fixture, as installed, that is a No-Build/Alteration zone around room, a warming working on Bank to keep and donations fromof commuby spring 2023, Stevensville at the kitchen, a company’s current facility located the Ravalli County Sheriff’s Office to designed or shielded in such a manner this area nity to preserve thethat riparian area Kathie Butts, President of the Road in Hamilton. The event served state-of-the-art audio visual this ain 2012 their loan members. Other major and they plan corner of Kootenai about one and a half miles north of mitigate impacts to public health and that all light rays emitted by the fixfor wildlife habitat andwere to ensure no double purpose. It included a ribbon Board, said, “This organization has system, and a gorgeous view and incorpopayments contributors the Three on continuing to Creek and Mountains Victor. The 21.9-acre parcel of is ture, either directly from the lamps or building oraalteration occurs this of the Road Bitterroot tobeing 2014. The Victor Fire District will rereasonable. Mile Fireway District, Lone cutting ceremony in honor therated new insafety. come such long sincethe itinwas expand divided 4 lots ranging fromsaidceive indirectly from the fixture, are projectarea,” he said.50 Hwy 93.into the west. She the $900 per lot. The company also Those payRock Park andago. theservices. Rapp started about years I feel aFamfacility, including tours of in thesize whole “We’re bringing the 3.38 to 8.5 acres. The intended use of agreed to pay $5,247 as its pro-rata ed below a horizontal plane through The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. John Bishop, building, and anBitarray of food and huge sense of responsibility to honor See BELL CROSSING, page 6” the subdivision is for commercial busishare of road impacts. the lowest point on the fixture where care to the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there terroot those who have come before us and drink inHealth honorCEO, of the organization’s Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that are it as were many who said.be as we make good as he itvolunteers can set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus that serves Lone Rock School. When already being helped on theLois project, and HedgeThe privatehad non-profit organization the course for the next 50 years.” Daly Hospital The surrounding park conSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received reduced chair McCormack saidpeth, that the of the was fisoccer rst organized in 1972. In 1984, tains and baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices from contractors. The Three Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Colorganization conducted a Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the hospital board, fields, tennis and volleyball involved,” the is proud that general contractorsuccessful donated laleen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising campaign fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, gave saidto this project courts, a walking a playgroup had they didn’t See the CENTER, new community center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction but then Covid-19 the BRHA land on Fairgrounds Road ground and a covered picnic raised about have to run has been four page years3 by Victoria Howell Bitterroot Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitwith a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit and construction in the works, costs but ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon skyrocketed. As a result, the group in 1990, Bessenyey estate deeded Thethe Bitter Root Humane Associa- celebrating the opening John Bishop, pictured from left, leads a gathering people involved in the there were some of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michaelof Howell. had to take out a mortgage to finish the land to the organization where tion announced last week that it was delays due to the Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facility on the property that hadHealth housedbuilding the Sue McCormack, who serves on the current shelter is located. The temporarily suspending acceptance See SHELTER, page pandemic. She said2 theat organization’s of directors will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93 new building replaces building shelter since 1984. of cats and kittens atan theold Hamilton their vision that shelter. For people that have and Boddy just north of the Stevensville Junction. bycats Nathan cumstances, having She adds thatisthe the Stevensville kittens they can no longer keep, there encountered people most important is another option. Christine Staub, a driving falling “quality, victim to mail way to combat facility will besuch more Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as been providing Heidi’s Kittens, an informal forcerescue at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized operating out of a home in Stevens901 S. 1st Street, was recently As a certified shipto ask clinic. She also said thatquestions Marcus Daly The new 12-acre campus will health fordepot 90 years. ville, has been accepting cats and presented with a Certificate of care” ping for FedEx, and start conMurphy. Shethe led the Hospital, which is a critical access by Nathan Boddy In recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and kittens for the last year andAppreciation a half. by Mayor DomiBoxxe versation with those commissioners through hospital, was recently rated #4byinlove. the Heidi Schnarr, with some help from specialty services. Two physicians have nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton is legally justified to you know and have been taking steps to a lengthy fund fund by Victoria Howell me like a ton of Judy Williams, the manager volunteers, cares for the surrendered Police Chief Stephen Snavely. open package which doesn’t by Staub the national rat-at accounting that, to sum already been hired, along with a nurse nation for quality invest in all theacommubricks.” Haven House food bank in Hamanimals, nurses them back to health In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details up, shows thefacilities. county, ing agency, outitof 351 similar practitioner, andwas two more doctors Numerous Bald Eagles have been congregating in the Burnt area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. Photos nities of Fork the Bitterroot, it comes ilton, talksoverall, over the sound of well a ifWhen needed, gets them spayedCouncil or neu- on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential doing very by Michael Howell. Victoria Howell being recruited. also be hethe said, with clinicsand in doingaresent to tered, Covid, Greg home from There willby bustling background andtold, explains and finds them suitable homes. Snavely said that he wants protocol, victims are but on its tax collections and Thesaid Bitterroot Overstreet has asheNathat the community non-profit is She that has been averaging Hamilton Police Department so in the presence of the hospital with she knows that over they showing revenues tional Forest (BNF) will The Cowboy Ball at but the doing Ravalli County message for adoption you: busy, “very well.” about one per day,toand “become more vocal about a witness, Staub was an oxygen tank. are, “often coached 50% of projections in host afool public meeting Fairgrounds will be While held February 12th. This is supply chain don’t around! good things that happen able to uncover the He was home for to departments say theysetbacks are shipplaced over 200 cats in theirthe forever most while this Wednesday, March the tenth annual event and the way it’s shaping during the worst of the Covid within the community.” Sharunfortunate contents two or three days. ping legal homes in 2022. Overstreet, by Michael Howell expenses havepapers only or 30th from 6 toa8shelter,” p.m. says ing pandemic meant interruptions his department’s experiof the package: nearlyDuring that time, paperwork.” Other up, it’s going to be an event worthy oftoa23% jubilee “I’m not Schnarr. an attorney in amounted of to to“This shareisinformation delivery and availability, Williams ence with Ms. Staub was one $16,000 in cash, common tactics for a foster-based rescue.” She and former council member, the public at the next meeting Halfway through celebration. projections due in large private practice in his oxygen level by Victoria Howell regarding the developsays that Haven House is back up such opportunity. which the customer scammers include says her operation is associated with the budget year, the part to job vacancies Rod Freeman is the chair of this year’s appears to be continuing when the council considers Stevensville, was went down to 51, ment of a draft forestof Polson. “All to its operational normal. In early March, a customwas unwittingly sendclaiming to repAll Hearts Rescue county’s performance that have yet to be filled. event. Freeman is also the chair of the Rodeo diagnosed with regular a normal of his efforts to teach the new the appointment offrom two addiClimbing Management At the mostly second food forIRS about er Icame ing to a scammer in the or in isCommittee, looking pretty Hearts does dogs, and onlyto the Boxxe Shoppe Oneresent big savings was andgood, the“We viceprovide chair of the Fair Board, colon cancer in 99. “I jokingly say Plan (CMP). The virtual council and mayor how local tional council members. meeting of the two-member intending to send a package 1800 people,” she says, addingfor Chicago, Illinois. Social Security according to Ravalli the budgeted funds which he’s been onby forNa12 years. A real estate February of 2021. that 51 is brain Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting will be held on RESCUE, 4 government should run. He “We’ll do our job, ” Christine said that Haven House serves the FedEx. Administration. County CFO Klarryse the county’s share Stevensville TownSee Council, onvia page agent for 18 years here in the Bitterroot, andin also He wentSee through damage material.” Zoom. below for than Boddy. Thewas customer they population inSometimes Hamilton and a frequent commenter Gibson January 27, town clerk Jenelle Heidi Schnarr with “Lucy.” Lucy was in the Army for 21 years, his organizational and instructions and a link chemotherapy and But COVID-19 COUNTY, page 10 seemed con- meetings during will tell theirWilliams Corvallis.See As an example, at council Joan Mell, an attorney with the profile of the Berthoud the council andfused from shelter she toaccepted join August thetold meeting. Five where fundraising skills, and discipline, haveone been put in late heawas wasthe no joke.familiar “It and unOver victims that a loved has says that in December alone theyto the last administration. In from Hamilton, wasgot recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar public meetings was too “shut down” to be adopted. audience that she was having good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told that the cancer so bad I felt familiar with course of her landed invisits, jail, orand thathanded a prizeout logged 658 that others withinFreeman the commuognized for stepping in (virtual) were in meetAccording toheld Schnarr, Lucy “has blos- comment, Crews told said 314 the committee hopes trouble streaming the the public process, decade with has beenofwon, but a to feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t boxes food. Asked whether nity would help her look out 2021. the council that those makto handle the the prosecution somed here and is She nowsaid withand a wonderthis year, for expansion ofmuch the rodeo Staub Boxxe to bethe paid for release of the the holiday season has of Overstreet had breathe, likefor I their safety.$50,000 ings on the internet. At least one Infoster, addition toisthe ful but still too fragile to go became susShoppe, Staub funds. The scammers will ing public comment should caseload of Town Attorney bucking chutes. “They’re just getting old,” he said. an impact on need or donations, surgery on October was being water the former YouTube of the potential victims she opportunity toevents. learn chanpicious when haswhile now commonly use that a getting legitimate Williams asserts the flow in to adoption She is in need of a “They need to be replaced. They’re banged address the mayor, not the Greg Overstreet he was 23, 2021 for ostomy boarded, or what aided was a resident at a local nel they had was no longer about and participate in considering recovered address, buton will be ready to forever home.” up. Bucking stock can be hard metal.” removal, the fi nal I imagine water audience. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recovextended nursing facility and the process developSee FOOD, page 9 working butof they had set up the customapproximately the package fromactually a porch The 10th annualgrab cowboy ball – which in the boarding to had be to be provided with a ride notand a question and answer” ering, from Covid-19. Mell ing a climbing plan, atreatment new Facebook page.this How- er’sisage $60,000 in front door when it arrives. started 11the years agoorbut couldn’t be held last year to the bank as well as to colon journey. like,” recalls week’scancer meeting will cov“It’s public comment.” did the work at no charge the session. particular cash, all of to “They always direct the ever, members of the public Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda the had said previouswhich was to victim to send it, ‘no signature The of mayor the town. “I just wanted who had he tried to access the details “It’s common sense to me,” year. topics: surgery, was isfrauduwhen I realized transaction. being required,’” she adds. ly that he would be answering publicly thank Joan for helpThesays, Town of Stevensville recognized attorney Joan aMell, she pointing out that red Facebook page said it was not Unfortunate• Review overall “This is the first year we’ve ever done diagnosed with that I was not lently deThe Bank Secrecy Actfully questions from the public. ing me and helping the town, ” flags abound when seniors are center, for filling in while town attorney Greg Overstreet objectives and desired accessible. Berthoud asked catered dinner,” said Freeman. The University COVID-19. taking Covid ly, it was not manded from of 1970 requires banks to they by Victora GSK, others. were made revisionsbeing to thescammed. plans based mayor had made a mistake when “If aonperson alsoamong said that they He said saidthey Overstreet. outcomes ofHowell the public of Montana Catering Service will provide theof had Covid-19. Pictured with Mell are, l to r, Overstreet, for patience as she worked Staub’sCrews “I was obviously seriously enough. firstconcerned senior citizen keep track of withdrawals about housing affordability their recommendations. theand project is 80 yearsIfold, all of a changed the zoning on the properconversations should be prepared for some dinner. Desserts are provided by 4H members. having members of $10,000 or more in order very weakened,” said of thetime through thefirst issues. Mayor Steve Gibson, council members Cindy Brown andto At their meeting new and this proposed project would help was approved, they have agreed to ty in question from single family they’re coming into the The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide an update encountered commuSee page 2 sudden “interesting comments” Greg Overstreet talks about his recentfrom brush with death dueSTEVI, tothepay Overstreet. hit year, inCrews, front“It offormer a packed house, the address that. all fees upfront, which total about multi-family. Jim mayor bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. Photo by Victoria at 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. nity.See See COWBOY BALL page 4 SURVIVING, page byprojMichael Howell Howell. such cirStaub is Horlacher Covid. Photo by VictoriaThe Howell. page 2 Stevensville Town Council plan calls for 41 units, most$230,000. said the is a SCAMMERS, bog,” said Wolff, makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.”“The area See See PLAN, page 2 voted down Photo by Nathan Boddy. a proposal to build 41 rental units just ly four-plexes, to be built on 3.09 ect is “in harmony” with the Town’s referring to well-known high ground the Ravalli County Commissioners off the Eastside Hwy between Pine acres on Pine Street. The 3-bedroom, water and sewer capacity whichLast was week water and drainage problems in theapproved adoption of a memorandum of understandStreet and North Avenue on the north 2.5 bath apartments would be 1300 reviewed two years ago. area. “This [development] could cause ing with the Ravalli County DUI Task and side of Stevensvlle. The proposal was square feet and each would have a “We believe this place is special,” problems of flooding for Force neighbors.” Protection Agency. The letter the commissioners stated National Forest 1987 Forest aspen and whitebark pine; MAPS Media Institute to produce a video designed by Michael Howell submitted by Spire Properties, represmall backyard. All would be desaid Horlacher. “I wholeheartedly She also mentioned traffic concerns to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavthat “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage tobelieve provide Plan. signed as long-term rentals, sented by Rob Horlacher of Stevenswith timber no in this project.” and advised the council to “use cauior. impacts totion andconcerning the Draft SEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated A new record of decision ville. sub-letting allowed. Monthly rents But that was not the general skepticism.” The deadlineHowell closed on if it would be possible Victoria The DUI Task Force approved of year, the facility tookButterfly. inthe justcreation under byby Victoria Howell Before the council took public are projected to be approximately opinion of members of the public who Ben Longbottom also mentioned the Gold Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all on January 18, forHowell filing objec- to put envelopes by Victoria his property which would in effect with the highway, which is aastate addressed when private land was Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners spent every penny. comment on the proposal, Horlacher $1750. Horlacher said that the project attended the Not one spoke the drainage problems theanalysis area. roads heavy the scopeand ofin the treatment to meeting. 2021 accompanied by a to Draft all the doors and Dominic Farrenshutthen off access Stevensville Riverunits. According highway, because nowfrom you’re goingequipment to on it. sold toproject aing new owner Fish, Wildlife signed off The involved the creation tions to theaShinn, Draft SupplemenJasmin founder of and There are no paid employees; it’s an all-of presented brief overview the projrequired no subdivision of the propin favor of the proposal. He said he had personally seen water kopf, activities director put valentine cards in The Stevensville Town Coun- SEIS thatPark, a 20-acre park on the east bank have release two accesses forlogging trucksatrucks, pulling and Parks got involved. once-pritheitems letter quotes the Bittera Forest Service press and mostly, provides a site-speset of easily accessible that hadThe secret hiding tal Environmental Statement ect. Horlacher said that last November erty, and nonorth zoning changes or piece vari- of boats, Former counciljust member Marilyn running over Pine Street. “One of the volunteer organization. ButtoShinn said executive director of 1 Horse atwas Sapphire them. Farrenkopf really cil split onLutheran whether to accept just to the of the private and you’ve come out to, of the vate piece now belongs thesome state compartments where someone could stash root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide but not limited theitimpacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of theWolff proposed (Draft SEIS) for the Gold he attended a meeting put together by ances. He also said that he had met said that Spire Properties is an conditions of approval should be a At A Time Draft Horse Rescue costs about $200 per month to feed Homes in Hamilton, is near liked the idea.property. He askedCrews contacted the county a small piece of park land the Stevi Wyean at 45 miles per hour - there developed fishing access drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The aim was to Willow Creek Road. tois aflask Management Wildlife Re-site. treatment areas are within defining old-growth stan-public works aButterfly group ofthe thebridge, valley’s largest employwith the Town’s director, out-of-state Shethere.” said that in Due“gentle Project, a Bitterroot there are facility Corvallis, got a nice askingin community students Stevensville an item that was at schools and negotiated the donation of the are going tocompany. be accidents I giants.” think opportunity it’sThen [the piece to providethese parents“But a learning toon seethe the See training, STEVI, page 6 ers, Bitterroot Health and police chief and had herinsect opinion the previous council and veterinary source Objective “Maintain designated for and resource and financial limitadards. Some objections tofire thechief,area boost lastForest week when she was bills, therapy, and toincluding send his athat and daycares to make National project considered atresidents the March 24th council land on the and west, securing potential Mayor Steve Gibson said he didn’t west] still a viable oftoland for the various ways in which any youngpiece person can hide Last year the envelopes. sufficient habitat Ravalli County would decision were received because of thetions, little love this special envelopes presented with aValencheck for $7500 associated costsold-growth to rehabilitate meeting. The land ownership willnew now river and access pending the disease outcometreatment of see what use land is to the town. “Iother city tofrom have, whether or not you put their substance use casual inspections. includes nearly 13,000 acres lopes were so full they The project is now tine’s Day. decorate them for each revert to the county. The 1.52-acre the access dispute. only see a liability,” said Gibson. money into developing it,” said Motnot be able to accommodate on suitable timberland to by the January 18 deadline dense pockets of dead and dythese horses. When they’re fi nally ready from representatives of JCCS, an Glenda Wiles, Director of the DUI Task Force, of commercial and non-comhad to be emptied more really popular, and About years resident. people piece, whichfour tomostly the Then Council Wolff Michaelson he looked upwhat the for ley. are many cars out said sheadoption, tells“There parents is,so “If you don’t look, accounting fiis rmlocated with aadjacent branch most can be driven or there, support viable populations ing trees. They claim area said the necessary maintenance having to do member with the Marilyn mercial vegetative treatment than the once. growing every year. ago, a in resident came drop offsaid valenBitterroot River on the northwest side she had apotenreal problem with old minutes andduring found that the land I see. think can be used for parking. But then younor don’t If it you don’t see, then you don’t ridden, and some just become “pasture located Hamilton. Part of could the logging of old-growth dependent the project, the of old growth, is impacted by mountain pine within a 55,000was acre area ofto the to Farrenkopf to see tines to fill the enveof the bridge, offered Town this piece of land. “It’s where two was donated on the condition that looking long term, if you have propSee VALENTINES, page 10 selection for awarding that gift tial impacts to wildlife and to pets.” See DUI, page 10 rehabilitation of the road afteron the species. ” side The letter Douglas-fir bark beetle, forest inby theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 for use as a roads converge, the bankbeetle, is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty west ofestablished thenotes river,that then was online voting County and according 1 Horse At A Time was DrafttoSEIS limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and the project is complete. Ravalli Willow Creek Road.I think there are potential river access site. bly steep… liability for western recreational purposes within five you havethe access potentially consoltains eastbranch of Corvallis. by Shinn in 2018. She’s originally from to JCCS manager, Andrea of its environmental consespruce budworm damage. County objects to shifting Bitterroot National Forest During the tenure of former issues… It is the fastest part of the years. idate highway property into the Town The original proposal was RDO Co. Simmerman, 1 Horse A Time Germany whereEquipment sheI grew around mayor Jim Crews, the At owner of land channel and thethe deepest partAlthough of the in general Vickie Motley, park board memof Stevensville. thinkup It’s something financial burden of the project quences analysis to vegetation, officials have stated that withdrawn in August of 2020 horses. She’s been aW. horse fan, was one of the topnortheast four vote side had 8571always Running Road at the river on the you were to develop thatwith the ber,proposed said that nothing had County been done Equipment Co. the pileated woodpecker and project ischannel. designedIfto improve agreement to Ravalli and believe RDO after Friends theoff Bitterroot getters. passionate about attempted to of shut river access on for fishing, I would also see a problem because the access problem had been but she is especially See STEVI, page 16 Missoula, MT 59808 8571 Running W. Road pine marten. project, the Ravalli County it is contrary to current law forest resilience to natural checkfor followed in the wake draft horses. She and her husband, a andThat Alliance the Wild 406-549-4171 and existing agreements. ” “We realize these old growth Commissioners expressed Missoula, MT 59808 military retiree, and their two children of a $25,000 gift claiming in November Rockies filed suit the disturbances like fire, insects species are listed in and disease; reduce sediconcern over impacts to Forest officials also received from Tractor Supply. relocatedRDOequipment.com toindicator Montana and bought a 20406-549-4171 agency failed to use the best acre farm which Shinn said can support That sounds like a lot of the Forest Plan, but it is not county owned and maintained comments from Philip Strobel ment sources in the Willow available science in managing Presenting a check for $7500 from JCCS to Jasmin Shinn (second from left) of 1 Horse At RDOequipment.com money but, according to Shinn, Creek watershed; improve 20 horses. She currently roads, Willow Creek DirectorJCCS of the NEPAabout Branch clear whether there are other A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, l to r: especially Levi Clark, CPA, Andrea Simmerman, Branch elk habitat and didn’t comtaking care of draft horses is Office of the Regional Adminbull trout habitat; restore Road. Manager, and Will Ramsey, CPA. Also pictured is Tiny, the non-profit’s mascot and the ply with the definition of old an expensiveYproposition. Last CO.COM including meadows, RESCUE, page 65 See See GOLD, page •FREEbyESTIMATES INTime. THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• OURH OMEIMPROVEMENThabitat istrator In a At letter to the Forest first horse that was rescued 1 Horse A Photo by Victoria Howell. of the Environmental
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