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by Victoria Howell 14-member legislaHowell tive It’sbloc been pledges a long time to coming, but the new Three Bitterroot Health push state LegislaMile Center is up held aCommunity groundbreakby Michael Howell ture further to right and running. Located at 4433
trying to brainwash our chilThe Montana Freedom of the session, and formally Theso caucus does not shelter. $140,000. a levy, this won’t any tional andhave physical dren,” Rosendale said. “And Caucus, chaired by Sen. Thelaunched at an event in the include anyimpact top legislative According The park additional on people’s therapy servicesa – it really those three things resa Manzella, stateboard capital leaders, does feature toisColleen made propertybut taxes. including therapy that can encapsulate what we R-Hamilton, is a Thursday night smattering of whips, Schmiedeke, the decision In addition to theacommitloan, the are fighting.” bloc of 14 named withtoRosendale at tee chairs and vice chairs, whoallserves on take out a project was paid for by pool – plus imaging and cut the ribbon at last week’stheinRosendale members — with the top bill. cluding Manzella, who chairs both the park emerged as one loanoftothe finish Three Community and lab services. ceremony, saidMile concerning the Senior ing last Wednesday of the most prominent — and more, she has “What you the Senate and Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (theHighways official name) Bishop said organization’s 50 years of service, “It An openKimbel-Sannit house celebration was for its new medical by obstinate — members of the said, who do not saw She playsaid out they in Transportation Committee. theArren center is on the east side community which raised over $80,000 they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old Montana Free Press complex that will beThe build- U.S. of Lone Rock Park. center board, worked with through community picnics, House Freedom Caucus, want to identiWashington is In addition to Manzelladies 1972 it’s still runopen by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) new facility ing contains a large started State inla rummage sales, bingo nights athey coalition of hardline Repub- fy themselves whatFarmers the power andand the the named caucus built just north of meeting animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” The mission of a freedom room, a warming working on keep and donations fromof commuby spring 2023, lican lawmakers, during the — in both the of a Bank smallto group members, a handful of other Stevensville at the kitchen, a Butts, President of the Road inMontana Hamilton. The event served caucus, congressstate-of-the-art audio visual this ain 2012fight for the House loan KathieRepublican nity members. Other major protracted state House and can their do,” Rosenlawmakers floated and that they plan corner of Kootenai man Matt Rosendale told double purpose. It included “This has system, and a gorgeous view a ribbon and incorpo-that gripped Con- Senate who say contributors were thethough Three speakership dalepayments said to aBoard, said, around theorganization chamber, on continuing to Creek Road and in state Helena of thelawmakers Bitterroot Mountains tothegress rated in 2014. Mile Firethey District, Lone cutting ceremony in honor of new earlier such a long way sincethe it was this month. Now, they will present largereasonable. crowd come in whether were there out expand Hwy 93. including Thursday evening, tours can beofdethe west. She said the from RosenThose payRock Park and theservices. Rapp with assistance a unified, conthe Capitol’s old of allegiance toago. caucus’ started about 50 years I feel aFamfacility, the whole “We’re bringing the fined by what it fights against. The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. dale and a national organizaservative front Supreme Court mission or mere curiosity John Bishop, building, and anBitarray of food and huge sense of responsibility to honor Sen. Theresa Manzella “The radical left is trying care to the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there tion called the State Freedom in Helena. The chambers. “This wasn’t clear. Sen. Wendy terroot those who have come before us and ” drink inHealth honorCEO, of the organization’s (R-Hamilton), chair of to destroy our families, they’re Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that areis it as were many volunteers who Caucus Network, the Montana group announced freedom caucus McKamey, Falls, gen said.be as make good as he itR-Great can we set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus trying to keep us from that serves Lone Rock pracSchool. Legislature When already being helped on theLois project, and the new Montana Freeis getting its own its formation at going to be … the HedgeThe privatehad non-profit organization the course for the next 50 years.” Daly Hospital CAUCUS, page 5 ticing our faith, and they’re The surrounding park conSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSCSee received reduced such group. the beginning tip of the spear.” dom Caucus. 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 conducted a successful Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the hospital board, fields, tennis and volleyball involved,” the Three Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Colis proudorganization that general contractor 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 on Fairgrounds Road ground andland a covered picnic raised Bitterroot about have to run has been four page years3 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, the Bessenyey estate deeded John Bishop, pictured from left, leads a gathering people involved in the there were some celebrating the opening of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michaelof Howell. had take out a mortgage to fimost nish of theNathan land to the organization where by Boddy taken substantial effort from day one. rural Montana became evident. sametostaffing issues that plague delays Bitterroot Health building project insaid, a ceremonial groundbreaking. facility on the property thatahad housed the Sue McCormack, whothis’, serves onjust the current shelter is located. The According to Honey, previous party “They ‘heck with and theThe valley, Honey says thatdue a lottoofthe enterSeewill SHELTER, page pandemic. She said2 shelter since 1984. the of directors will built onofland located atorganization’s the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Roadprising and Hwy 93 After 30 years of owning andbuilding operhad undertaken thebe purchase the hot left,” leaving behind a disaster of frozen skiers/soakers set up their new building replaces an old their vision that ating Lost Trail Hot Springs, co-owner he and Dell were broken pipes. BBQ grills in the parking lotthat andisthe make north of thesuccessStevensville by Nathansprings Boddybefore just cumstances, havingand Junction. She adds Stann Honey says that he is glad that ful, but made a hasty retreat when the With the pipes in functional order, an evening of it, which he welcomes. the Stevensville encountered people most important things have Trail Hot Honey says they have tried Christine Staub, a driving falling “quality, victim to mail way to combat such facility willto bekeep more Darby, Victor andLost Corvallis, as Springs well as been providing worked out. enjoys 150 gallons per the nature of the historical hotpeople springs force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized Located equiminute of 107 degree relatively constant,tobut he does foresee 901 S. 1st Street, was recently As a certified shipask questions clinic. She alsowith saidthe that Marcus Daly The new 12-acre campus will health fordepot 90 years. distant from water straight from some changes pool and hot tub presented with a Certificate of care” ping for FedEx, and start conMurphy. Shethe led the Hospital, which is a critical access Sula and Lost earth, channeled present, the resort still care, urgent care and in the future. At In recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, the Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe versation with those commissioners through Trail Ski Area, into anphysicians inviting pool has an overall capacity offund 125and people was recently rated #4 the services. Two have hospital, nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton legallysteps justified you know have beenistaking to tospecialty a lengthy byinlove. fund by Victoria Howell me like a ton of the longstandand nearby hot tub. between 10 cabins, 8 motel rooms Police Chief Stephen Snavely. open package which doesn’t by Staub the national rataccounting that, to and sum already been hired, along with a nurse nation for quality invest in all theacommubricks.” ing hot springs “Our pool is under a lodge capableitof housing 42 people. In In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details up, shows the county, ing agency, out of 351 similar facilities. practitioner, and two more doctors Numerous been congregating in the Burnt area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. was Photos nities of Fork the Bitterroot, When have beenita comes fa- Bald Eagles have Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential overall, doing very well bystopover Michael Victoria Howell being recruited. also be hethe said, with clinicsand in doingaresent to Covid, Greg Howell. home from There willby vorite Snavely said that he wants protocol, victims are told, but on its tax collections and The Bitterroot Overstreet has a Nafor decades, 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 the 50% Ravalli Countycoached message for you: beginning long to “become more vocal about a witness, Staub was an oxygen tank. are, “often of projections in host a public meeting Fairgrounds will be held February is before the around! don’t fool the good things that happen able to uncover the He was home for to departments say12th. they This are shipmost while thisOverstreet, Wednesday, convenience of March the tenth annual event and the way it’s shaping within the community.” Sharunfortunate contents two or three days. ping legal by Michael Howell expenses havepapers only or 30th from 6 to 8 p.m. Highway 93. ing his department’s experiof the package: nearlyDuring that time, paperwork.” Other up, it’s going to be an event worthy oftoa23% jubilee an attorney in amounted of to share information Honey has ence with Ms. Staub was one $16,000 in cash, common tactics for 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 developowned the hot such opportunity. which the customer scammers include 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 ofwith a draft forest springs In early March, a customwas unwittingly send-from a normal of claiming county’s performance have yetto torepbe filled. event. Freeman is also thethat chair of the Rodeo diagnosed with his efforts to teach the new the appointment of two addiClimbing Management the second regular his At mother, er came to the Boxxe Shoppe ing to a scammer in resent the IRS or in is looking pretty good, One big savings was Committee, and the vice chair of the Fair Board, colon cancer in 99. “I jokingly say Plan (CMP). virtual counciltoand mayor how local Chicago, tional council Mary Dell, meeting of theThe two-member intending send a package Illinois.members. Social Security according to Ravalli the budgeted funds which he’s been onby forNa12 years. A real estate for February of 2021. that 51 is brain Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting will be held on should run. He “We’ll do our job, ” Christine said since February via government FedEx. County CFO Klarryse the Administration. county’s share Stevensville Town Council, on agent for 18 years here in the Bitterroot, andin also He wentSee through damage material.” Zoom. below for than Boddy. of 1993, and Thewas customer Sometimes they a frequent commenter Gibson January 27, town clerk Jenelle in the Army for 21 years, his organizational and instructions and a link chemotherapy and But COVID-19 Seewill COUNTY, points out seemed con- meetings during tell theirpage 10 at council Joan Mell, an attorney with the profile of the Berthoud told the council to late join the meeting. Five andfused fundraising skills, and discipline, haveone been put to in August he was wasthe no joke.familiar “It that Lost Trail and unOver victims that a loved has the last administration. In from Hamilton, wasgot recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar public meetings 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 in jail, or that a prize Hot Springs is that others withinFreeman the commucomment, Crews told ognized for stepping in (virtual) were heldthe in meet- the public said the committee trouble streaming process, decade with has been won,hopes but a to feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t currently the nity would help her look out 2021. Honey, owner of Lost that Trail those Hot Springs. the council makto handle the the prosecution this year, to forbethe expansion of the rodeo and Staub Boxxe paid for release of the only hot springs hadStann breathe, likefor I their safety.$50,000 ingsOverstreet on the internet. She said At least one In Bitteraddition toPhoto the by Nathan Boddy. became susShoppe, Staub funds. The scammers will ing public comment should caseload of Town Attorney in the bucking chutes. “They’re just getting old,” he said. surgery on October was being water the former YouTube of the potential victims she opportunity to learn chanpicious when haswhile now commonly use a getting legitimate “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 recovered address, buton will be ready to up.facility Bucking stock can be hard metal.” removal, theof fidevelopnalhad set up considering I imagine audience. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recov- water extended nursing and the process working but they the customapproximately grab the package fromactually a porch The 10th annual cowboy ball – which in the boarding to had be to be provided with a ride notand a question and answer” ering, from Covid-19. ing a climbing plan, atreatment new Facebook page.this How- er’sisage $60,000Mell in or front door when it arrives. started 11the years ago but couldn’t be held last year to the bank as well as to colon journey. like,” recalls week’scancer meeting “It’s public comment.” did the work at no charge particular cash, all of to “They always direct the ever, members ofwill thecovpublic the session. Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda details of the which was victim to send it, ‘no signature The mayor had said previousthe town. “I just wanted to who had he tried to access the “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. catered dinner,” said Freeman. Thebanks University COVID-19.Berthoud asked ly, it was not taking Covid manded from of 1970 requires to being scammed. “If a person said Overstreet. outcomes ofas the public ofPictured Montana Catering Service provide theof had Covid-19. with Mell are, l towill Overstreet, for patience she worked Staub’sCrews “I was obviously first also said that they seniorseriously citizen enough. keep track ofr, withdrawals is 80 years old, and all of a conversations should be prepared for some dinner. Desserts are provided 4Hin members. time having members of $10,000 or by more order very weakened,” said through the issues. Mayor Steve Gibson, council they’re coming into the members Cindy Brown and The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location The pool under its winter covering. Photo by Nathan Boddy. • Provide an update encountered See page 2 sudden “interesting comments” Greg Overstreet talks about his recentfrom brush with death dueSTEVI, tothe commuOverstreet. “Itformer hit Jim Crews, mayor bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. by Victoria Howell. at 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. nity.See See COWBOY BALL page 4 SURVIVING, page by Photo Michael Howell such cirStaub is winter set in. 100 degrees,” says Honey, adding that tingle.” a nod to the Corps of Discovery,page which Covid. Photo by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense See PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. “They the comparative cooler temperature for famously passed over Lost Trail Pass in Lastfor week 1805, the Ravalli County Commissioners apcame here in the large pool makes it a great place all of the cabins bear names from proved adoption of a memorandum of understandthe summer kids, since state law doesn’t allow chilthat historical event. ingreally with the Ravalli County TaskitForce andas and thought dren under the age of 5 into the “We wantedDUI to keep as much Agency. The letter commissioners statedInstitute National Forest 1987 Forest aspen and whitebark pine; “We getthe MAPS Media to produce asays video designed by Michael Howell life was hot water. a lot of families,” he possible Protection the way it is,” Honey. to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavthat “Ravalli County objects In recognition contains recommendations manage timber tosays. provide Plan. great,” says of their 30 years of ior. Honey of the Skiers are another regular visitor to operation, usage of the springs concerning thehot Draft SEISwill for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated impacts to A new record of decision The deadlineHowell closed on if it would be possible Victoria The DUI Task Force approved of year, the facility took inthe justcreation under bybyVictoria Howell previous buythe hot springs, warming their bones be half priced on February 3rd. the Gold Butterfly. Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all Lost Trail18, Hot Springs highwaytosign. Photo his by Nathan Boddy. put envelopes on January forHowell filing objecby Victoria property which woulders, in explaining effect with athe which is aof addressed when private land was astate Mischief Room lastand May and the commissioners $240,000 spent every penny. after dayhighway, of some Lostequipment More information can beanalysis found on roads from heavy ing theowner scope ofthe the treatment units. According to poaching 2021 accompanied by a to Draft all the doors and then Dominic Farrenshut off access Stevensville River highway, because now you’re going to sold to a new and Fish, Wildlife signed off on it. The project involved creation of tions to the Draft SupplemenrootJasmin Valley which remains open to the that they’d had a change of mind when Trail’s famous powder. While the kitch-There their website: https://www.losttrailShinn, founder and are no paid employees; it’s an allkopf, director put valentine cards The activities Stevensville Town CounPark, ain 20-acre park on the east bank have release two accesses forlogging trucksatrucks, pulling and Parks got involved. The once-prithe letter quotes the Bittera Forest Service press and mostly, SEIS that provides a site-speset of easily accessible items that had secret hiding tal Environmental Statement public. Keeping it open running has the reality of running a hot springs in en at the hot springs is closed due to thevolunteer hotsprings.com. organization. ButtoShinn said executive director of 1and Horse atwas Sapphire them. Farrenkopf cil split onLutheran whether to accept just toreally the north of the private ofthe boats, and you’vebut just come out to, of the vate piece now belongs thesome state compartments where someone could stash root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide not limited theitimpacts cific forest plan amendment about piece 90% of proposed (Draft SEIS) for the Gold 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. Due tois aflask Management Wildlife Re-site. treatment areas are within defining old-growth stanButterfly Project, a Bitterroot “gentle there are facility Corvallis, gotitem a nice askinginthe community students Stevensville bridge, an that was at schools and negotiated the donation of the are going to be accidents there.” “But I giants.” think opportunity it’sThen [the piece to providethese parents a learning toon seethe the source Objective “Maintain area designated for insect and financial limitadards. Some objections to securing the boost lastForest week when she was veterinary bills, therapy, training, and to send his athat and daycares to make National project considered atresidents the March 24th council land on the west, potential Mayorand Steve resource Gibson said he didn’t west] still a viable oftoland for the various ways in which any youngpiece person can hide Last year lopes. the disease sufficient habitat tions, Ravalli County would decision were received because of the 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 outcometreatment of see what use theenveland 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 the area said the necessary maintenance having to do member with the Marilyn mercial vegetative treatment than once. growing every year. ago, a in resident came drop off valenarea the river’s story becomes “aland tale phate the richest mine on earth. by Michael Howell and Kootenai “the Place of Big Bullby mountain Bitterroot River on the northwest side said she had aas real problem with old minutes and found that the I see. think it can be used for parking. But then younor don’t Ifwas 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 during the project, the of old growth, potenis impacted pine within a 55,000was acre area ofto the to Farrenkopf to see tines to fill the enveof woe,” as Hackathorn put it. “But it By the turn of the 19th century, 12 Trout.” The spot where Rattlesnake of 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 notes that beetle, Douglas-fir bark beetle, forest in the Sapphire Mounis a story that everyone should know smelters were located on Butte hill The history of the Upper Clark Creek flows into the Clark Fork in Misin 2017 by Ravalli County for use as a roads converge, bank is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty west of the river, then was online voting and according Willow Creek Road. 1 Horse At A Time was established Draft limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and the is complete. Ravalli who cares about purposes fishproject or conservation and Bow Creek had become an Fork River isCorvallis. truly a tale of three rivsoula was called “the Place ofliability Small potential river access site. bly steep… I think there are for western recreational within five you Silver havethe access toSEIS potentially consoltains eastbranch of 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 thebefore tenure of former issues… It is the fastest part of the years. idate highway property into the Town in western Montana,” he added. industrial wasteway. Ten thousand ers.The Theoriginal river industrial mining. Bull Trout.” Up at Silver Bow Creek, proposal was Simmerman, 1 Horse At A Time Germany where sheI grew up around mayor Jim Crews, owner land channel and thethe deepest partAlthough the inin general Vickie park board memof Stevensville. thinktunnels It’s The taleMotley, of woe begins when gold miles of underground were The river during thethe heyday ofofmetal “the Place Where Something isofShot financial burden of the project quences analysis tosomething vegetation, officials have stated that withdrawn in August of 2020 horses. She’s always been a horse fan,pit was one of the top four vote at the riverThe on the northeast side project had channel. If you were to develop that ber, said that nothing had been done was discovered on Gold Creek near built under Butte before the open extraction. river being revived. the Head” was a place with such large RDO Equipment Co. the pileated woodpecker and is designed to improve agreement with the proposed to Ravalli County andbut believe after Friends of the Bitterroot getters. she is especially passionate about attempted to shut off river access on for fishing, I would also see a problem because the access problem had been See STEVI, page 16 mine was begun. When Butte became Up until the time that European bull trout that you could shoot them present-day Drummond in 1858 and 8571 Running W. Road pine marten. project, the Ravalli County it is contrary to current law forest resilience to natural checkfor followed in the horses. Shethe and her husband, a andThat Alliance thethe Wild too polluted smelting was moved settlers moved into area in wake signifwith a bow and arrow. not long after on Silver Bow Creek anddraft existing agreements. ”to Anaconda. “We and realize these old growth disturbances“That like fire, insects expressed Missoula, MT 59808 military retiree, their two children of a $25,000 gift in November at Butte. Activityand in the area boomed That smelter stack was icant numbers, a couple of the local has not been theCommissioners case for Rockies filed suit claiming species are listed and disease; concern over impacts to1880 the Forest officials also received from names Tractor Supply. relocated toindicator Montana and bought a 20and by Northern Pacific the largest free-standing structure in place that the upper a lotreduce of timesedisince then,” said Hack406-549-4171 agency failedindicate to use the best Railroad was completed near Phosthe world for while. Clark Fork was good fishing. Acathorn as he gave an update on the 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 phate and a Golden Spike of was in about In horses. 1905, Clark the cording to National Trout Unlimited’s recovery efforts on the Upper Clark RDOequipment.com money but, according to Shinn, 20 She currently roads, Willow Creek Director theset NEPA Branch clearWilliam whether therebuilt are other Creek watershed; improve A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, l to r: especially Levi Clark, the CPA, Andrea Simmerman, JCCS elk habitat and didn’t comtracks near Gold Creek byBranch Ulysses Milltown Dam to power the lumber Upper Fork Restoration Fork to members of the Bitterroot takingClark care of draft horses is project Office of the Regional bull trout habitat; restore andofWill Ramsey, CPA.Road. Also theThe non-profi t’s mascot the in Adminply with the definition of old Grant. actual spike is and housed mill at the bottom ofSee theRESCUE, Blackfoot manager Casey Hackathorn, the con- Manager, Chapter Trout Unlimited lastpictured week is Tiny, an expensive proposition. Last page 65 See GOLD, page •FREE ESTIMATES IN THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• Y OURH OMEIMPROVEMENThabitat C O .COM ofin theHelena Environmental In a At letter to the Forest horse thatmeadows, was rescued by 1 Horse A Time. Photo by Victoria Howell. growth of found in the Bitterroot the State Capitolistrator Rotunda fluence the Blackfoot River with thefirstincluding in Hamilton. See CLARK FORK, page 12 today. At the time the mine at PhosClark Fork was known by the Salish As industrial mining began in the
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