Wee W ell SSell
icenSeS llicenSeS
PRST STD STD PRST STD PRST USPOSTAGE POSTAGE US POSTAGE US PAID PAID PAID STEVENSVILLE MT STEVENSVILLE MT MT STEVENSVILLE PERMIT 89 PERMIT 89 89 PERMIT
OUTLET STORE
For or all all your your a ammunition mmunition F &H Hunting unting n needS eedS &
• • 777-2822 • • 4039 93 NN N 4034 HWY HWY 93 STEVENSVILLE STEVENSVILLE
www.ammoandmorestore.com www.ammoandmorestore.com
www.ammoandmorestore.com
Covering the Bitterroot Valley – “Where Montana Begins!” – Established 1985 – Locally Owned & Independent
’ ! l a c o L t a t s e B e h ‘T 37 29 Volume XXXIX, XXXVII, Number 30 Volume XXXVII, Number 28 Volume Number 33 29 XXXVII, Number
Wednesday, March26, 30, 2022 Wednesday, February 9,2022 2022 Wednesday, January Wednesday, February 28, 2024 Wednesday, January 31, 2024 Wednesday, February 2,
www.bitterrootstar.com
Eagles in winter Groundbreaking held for medical center Bitter Root Humane Association Montana to host annual banquet Three Mile Community Center open HistoricMatters trap club faces closure
celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary speech, occupa-
by Victoria by Victoria Howell Howell by Kristin Kruse
shelter. $140,000. levy, so this won’t any by JohnaDowd tional andhave physical According The park additional impact on people’s therapy services – It’s been a long time to Colleen board madeFor the property second taxes. year in a row, Monincluding therapy The Hamilton TrapThree Club has Schmiedeke, coming, but the new the decision In addition theaFirst loan, the Bitterroot Health tana Conservation Elderstoand Mile Center is up who serves on to take out a project was paid for by the been fixture in the Bitterroot pool – plus imaging held aaCommunity groundbreakby Michael Howell and cut the ribbon at last week’s Hunt Foundation are coming together and running. Located at 4433 both the park loan to finish Three Community Valley since 1947. A place for lab services. in the Bitterroot to and raise money send ceremony, saidMile concerning the toSenior ing last Wednesday Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (the official name) trap enthusiasts and hunting kids to camp across the state. Last Bishop said organization’s 50 years of service, “It An open house celebration was for new is medical theits center on east soside community She saidyear, they the event whichwas raised overhit, $80,000 sport shooters tothe gather, a huge drawing they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old complex that will beThe of Lonecompete Rock Park. worked people with from through community picnics, cialize, and honebuildtheir center board, alland over thestill area. was ladies in rummage 1972 it’s runIt by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) the facility open ing contains a also large meeting they started Farmersheld State sales, bingo nights skills, the north club as a new built just of functions in of Stevensville at the St. Mary’s animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch little old ladies.” room,non-profit a warming kitchen, a the working on Bank to Family keep Center. and donations from commuby spring of 2023, 501c3 Stevensville at thesupporting However, this year the Butts, President of the Road in Hamilton. The event served state-of-the-art audio visual this ain 2012 their loan Kathienity members. Other major community by providing youth and that they organizers have bigger plans, andplan have corner of Kootenai double purpose. included Board, said, “This organization has system, and a gorgeous view a ribbon and incorpopayments contributors were the Three programs such as It The Bitterto moved the event toon thecontinuing Ravalli County Creek Road and of the Bitterroot Mountains totherated reasonable. Mile Fireway District, the Lone cutting ceremony in honor of new in 2014. come such a long since it was root Blasters. According to club Fairgrounds. expand Hwy 93. including the west. She said the Those payRock 50 Park andago. theservices. Rapp members, hundredstours of kids havewhole started about years I feel aFamfacility, of the According to Tracey Manning, with “We’re bringing the The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. John Bishop, Bitparticipated in an that program building, and array of food and huge sense of responsibility honor First Hunt Foundation and a to major orcare to the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there over the years. their terroot CEO, those who have come before us and ” drink inHealth honorAlong of thewith organization’s ganizer of the banquet, when speaking Weekend Backpack Program taxes that are it as were many who own the club supports ly $500,000. he said.be“We make good aschange, itvolunteers can as we set 50thprograms, birthday. said that Marcus about the location were that serves Lone Rock School. When already being helped on theLois project, and charities and has raised over HedgeThe private non-profi t organization the course for the next 50 years.” so cramped.” This was a view shared Daly Hospital hadpark conThe surrounding Schmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received reduced $165,000 for the Shriners andIn 1984, by the rest of thefrom organizers, are peth, chair of the McCormack said that the who was fisoccer rst organized in 1972. tains and baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices contractors. The The Montana Hope Project. The excited to be able to stretch out and Three Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Colorganization conducted a successful Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the hospital board, fields, tennis and volleyball is proud that general contractor donateduse laclub is utilized by local schools, involved,” the the much expanded space. According leen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising campaign to fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, gave said this project courts, a walking a playgroup had they didn’t Teller Wildlife Refuge, Boy Scouts to Tom Powers, Montana ConserSee CENTER, page 3 new community center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction butwith then the Covid-19 the Triple BRHA land on Fairgrounds ground and a covered picnic raised Bitterroot about run has been four years and Creek Ranch, among Road Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-boundhave as Bit-to vation Elders, they are able to spread with a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit and construction others. inget thetrailers works, costs but ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon things out, and even in As a result, the group in 1990, the Bessenyey The current executiveestate di- deeded celebrating the opening there were some John Bishop, pictured from left, leads a gathering peopleskyrocketed. involved in the of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michaelof Howell. had to take out a mortgage to finish the land towith the organization where rector, Tom Allsop, has been Volunteers Montana Matters Youth Outdoor Experience gatheredHealth in the building Florence Fire Hall.inPhoto by John Dowd. See OUTDOORS, delays due to page the 2 Bitterroot project a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facility on Trap the property that had Sueby McCormack, who serves on Hamilton Club members linehoused up for athe shoot. Photo Kristin Kruse. the current shelter is located. The See TRAP, page 5 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 an old building shelter since 1984. their vision that just north of the Stevensville Junction. by Nathan Boddy cumstances, having She adds thatisthe the Stevensville encountered people most important 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 force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized 901 S. 1st Street, was recently a certified to ask elevation contour that loosely followed clinic. to a delay thesaid adoption process. by Michael Howell face (WUI). He called theAs focus on the shipShe in also thatquestions Marcus Daly The new 12-acre campus will health fordepot 90 years. presented with a Certificate of care” ping and start the conthe vegetation contour. As a result,Murphy. another map was WUI map “unfortunate, because afor lotFedEx, She led the Hospital, which is a critical access provide primary, care, urgent care and Ingot recent years, they Mayor Domithe Shoppe versation with those byLast John DowdFeb. 20, the Appreciation But following litigation in Carbon drawn up to illustrate an enlarged Tuesday, Ravalli ofby other issues kind ofBoxxe lost sight of commissioners through hospital, was recently rated #4 in the specialty services. Two physicians have nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton is legally justified to you know and love. have been taking steps to County in which the court found that WUI area that incorporated the new County Commissioners unanimously in those discussions.” a lengthy fund by fund by Victoria Howell me like a ton of Police Snavely. open acommupackage Staub doesn’t nation for quality by the national ratEvery the Ravalli their WUI extended over too large information. The Forest Service map adopted by year, resolution a revision of Chief Stephen He said originally Core Team, which accounting that, to sum already been hired, along with a nurse invest in the all the bricks.” In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details County Fish and Wildlife Assoan area without any justification, it included several contour lines showing Ravalli County’s Community Wilddeveloped to make a recommendait up, shows the county, ing agency, out of 351 similar facilities. 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, When it comes Council on March 15th,the Chief label. After of what potential ciation worksPlan to affect conseroverall, doing very well wasbeing decided to shrink the WUI inVictoria the the risk to structures in percentages fire Protection (CWPP) which tion about plan, developed twofollowing by Michael Howell are recruited. There willby also be he said, with clinics in to Covid, Greg Howell. sent home from Snavely saidmaps. that he wants the the protocol, and doing county’s map to match victims are but vation in the adopted Bitterroot through on its tax collections and the definition ranging from 0% to 100% if atold, wildfire was originally in 2006. The One identified vulnerable The Bitterroot NaOverstreet has a and the hospital with Hamilton Police Department so in the presence ofoutlined sheextinguished knows that over they showing revenues various projects programs. in the Healthy Forest Restoin the area was not in revised plan went through multiple infrastructure in the county which tional Forest (BNF) will The Cowboy Ball at the 50% Ravalli Countycoached message you: an oxygen to “become more vocal about aawitness, “often of projections Oneasuch program is their Act. tank. the initial attack.are, After reviewing in the drafts, thefor most recent being this Janbasically incorporated lot of theStaub wasration host public meeting Fairgrounds will be held February 12th. This is a don’t fool around! He was home for the good things that happen able to uncover the to say they are shipmost departments while scholarship program, which This map was the subject of a lot of map, the commissioners expressed uary following new input submitted by lowland around the highway and some thisOverstreet, Wednesday, March theMichael tenth event and the way it’s shaping within the community.” Shar-The other unfortunate contents ping legal papers two or three by Howell have only awards three winners who can discussions anddays. public meetings but at annual preference to expenses extend the draft WUIorto the Bitterroot other road ways. outlined 30th from 6 toNational 8 p.m. Forest. ing his department’s experiof the package: nearly paperwork.” Other up, it’s goingmatch to be an event worthy of jubilee an attorney in During that time, amounted toa23% of display an interest in pursuing the last meeting to consider adopting the 50% contour line. Commissioner Jeff Burrows said an area determined to be a high fire to share information ence with Ms. Staub was one $16,000 in cash, commondue tactics for and former council member, the the public at the next meeting Halfway through celebration. projections in Office large private practice in his oxygen level fields related to conservation, the Draft Map in January, a Fire Risk Erik Hoover, Director of the one of the main focuses of the revision hazard zone stretching past Forest by Victoria Howell regarding the developsuch opportunity. which the customer scammers include the budget year, the part to job vacancies Rod Freeman is the chair of this year’s wild of land ethics or natural of aappears be continuing when thevalley councilmap considers developed of Emergency Services, said that process was the development map to boundary on the west side of the Stevensville, was went down toby 51,the Bitterroot Nament a draft forest In early March, athe customwas unwittingly sendclaiming performance that have yetto torepbepage filled.2 sciences.the event. is also the chair of the Rodeo tional Forest was of introducedcounty’s which Freeman led depicting Wildland Urban Interand on east side marked by an diagnosed with from a normal See WILDFIRE, his efforts to teach the new the appointment of two addiClimbing Management At the second regular er came to the Boxxe Shoppe ing to a scammer in resent the IRS or in is looking pretty good, One big savings was For the year of 2023, one 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 meeting of theThe two-member intending send a package Illinois.members. Security according tobeen Ravalli the Social budgeted funds for of the winners to receive which he’s onby forNa12 years. A real estate February of 2021. that 51 is brain Christine Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting will be held on a via government should run. He “We’ll do our job, ” said FedEx. Administration. County CFO Klarryse the county’s share Stevensville Town Council, on check was Savannah Deuter, agent for 18 years here in the Bitterroot, andin also He wentSee through damage material.” Zoom. below for than Boddy. The customer Sometimes they was a frequent commenter Gibson who graduated high school in 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, con- meetings during tell theirpage 10 at council Joan Mell, an attorney 2023. Shecouncil has so and far seemed with the profile of the Berthoud told the toMay joinof the meeting. Five fundraising skills, and discipline, haveone been put to in late August he was wasthe no joke.familiar “It fused and unOver victims that a loved has completed semester of collegethe last administration. In from Hamilton, wasgot recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar public meetings audience thatacancer she was having good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told that the so bad I felt familiar with course of her landed in jail, or that a prize and submitted herKruse that others withinFreeman the commuby Kristin havecomment, been many changes Crews told ognized for stepping in (virtual) were held intranscript said the committee trouble streaming the meet- the public process, decade with has been won,hopes but a to feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t providing proof of compLeting nity would help her look out 2021. tocouncil the property overmakthe the that those to handle the prosecution $50,000 this year, for the expansion of the rodeo and Staub the Boxxe to be paid for release of the Overstreet had breathe, like I ings on the internet. She saidare associated for their safety. At least one In addition It courses. wastoathe fullThese house became decades, and all change susShoppe, Staub funds. The scammers will ing public comment should caseload of Town Attorney bucking chutes. “They’re just getting old,” he said. surgery on October was being water the former YouTube chantwo ofatseveral criteria appliof the potential victims she opportunity to learn the Grange Hall in piciouscomes with great thought, when has now commonly use a legitimate “They need to be replaced. They’re getting banged address the mayor, not the Greg Overstreet while he was 23, 2021 for ostomy boarded, or what cants must meetno tolonger be aided was a resident at a local nel they had was about and participate ineligible Hamilton on Monday, including this particular considering recovered address, buton will be ready to up.facility Bucking stock can be hard metal.” removal, the19 fidevelopnalthe I imagine forprocess a scholarship. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recov- water extended nursing and the of Feb. as proposal. working but they hadowners set up the audience. customapproximately grab the package fromactually a porch The 10th annual cowboy ball – which ofplan, these requirein Bitter the boarding to had be to be provided with a ride notand a question and26 answer” ering, from Covid-19. Mell ing aAnother climbing this of the Root Stocker’sisage The proposed acre atreatment new Facebook page. How$60,000 in or front door when it arrives. ments is that each applicant started 11the years ago but couldn’t be held last year to the bank as well as to colon cancer journey. like,” recalls week’s meeting Farm hosted apublic meetingthe session. development, D comment. Lazy “It’s public ” did the work at no charge cash, all of to “They always direct the ever, members ofwill thecovapresent 500-word essay dis- particular Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day that Overstreet. “This ersubmit the following agenda toafter their developS Meadows, would be details of the which was victim to send it, ‘no signature The mayor had said previousthe town. “I just wanted to who had tried to access cussing thewas role hunting plays “It’s common sense to me,” year. topics: surgery, he isfrauduwhen Icheck realized ment plans to thethe public. located northwest of the Deuter and Mark Oswald transaction. being required,’” she adds. Fred Upchurch, Savannah hold the given to Deuter by the Ravalli County Fish and WIldlife Associly that he would be answering publicly thank Joan for help- she The Town of Stevensville recognized attorney Joan aMell, out that red Facebook page saidand it was not Unfortunate• Review overall is the first year we’ve ever done fully Concerned curious intersection of Fair- Fred Upchurch. diagnosed with that I was not says, pointing“This lently deThe Bank Secrecy Act ation. Photo courtesy See RCFW, page 3questions from the public. ing me and helpingtaking the town, ” center, abound when seniors are for filling in while town Greg objectives and desired accessible. Berthoud askedas residents listened grounds catered dinner,” said Freeman. TheOverstreet University COVID-19. Covidflags ly, it was not Road and East manded from ofattorney 1970 requires banks to being scammed. “If a person Crews also said that they said Overstreet. outcomes ofas the public Peter VanTuyn addressed Side and would ofPictured Montana Catering Service provide theof had Covid-19. with Mell are, l towill Overstreet, for patience she worked “I was obviously Staub’s firstHighway seniorseriously citizen enough. keep track ofr, withdrawals is 80 years old, and all of a conversations the crowd. address several issues the should be prepared for some dinner. Desserts are provided by 4H members. time having members of $10,000 or more in order very weakened,” said through the issues. Mayor Steve Gibson, council members Cindy Brown and they’re coming into the The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide anStock update The community currently facencountered See page 2 sudden “interesting comments” Greg Overstreet talks about his recentfrom brush with death dueSTEVI, tothe commuOverstreet. “Itformer hit Farm Jim was Crews, mayor bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. by Victoria at 901 S.the 1stfirst Street in Hamilton. nity.See See COWBOY BALL page 4 SURVIVING, page created in 1886 byPhoto es,Victoria said Vantuyn, by Photo Michael Howell Howell. such cirStaub is Covid. by Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” See PLAN, page Marcus 2 Nathan Boddy. copper magnate being the Photo lack ofby housing Daly, and is currently in the area which is putLast week the Ravalli County Commissioners apunder the management ting a strain on the comproved a memorandum of understandby John Dowd of the franchise, many should not noand the south portions of the valley,adoption ExitofRealty team will continue workof VanTuyn and his wife munity and was deemed ing with the Ravalli County DUI Task Force tice the change at all, and it may lead separated at Victor Crossing. After the ing and marketing as one. “Weand didn’t IIona Bessenyey, who is National “critical” according to the Protection Agency. The letter Forest 1987 Forest aspen and whitebark pine; the commissioners statedwant MAPS Media Institute to produce a video designed by Since Michael Howell January 2, Exit Realty in the to some positive growth in the future. sale, the south portion was purchased to change a whole bunch right a fifth generation owner Plan. county. VanTuyn stated to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavcontains recommendations timber tobyprovide thatthe “Ravalli objects Bitterroot has gone through some big Last year, the previousmanage Exit Realty Kathy Butts, and northCounty by out of the gate,” said Lendman. of the Stock Farm along that development is the ior. impacts to Whenconcerning forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated the Draft SEIS for A new record of decision changes, but many in the valley may franchise owners, Tina and Max ColeLendman. asked how this change will The deadline closedChristina, on if it would Victoria Howell be possible with her sister highest and best use for Thesplit DUI Task approved of bybyVictoria Howell year, theForce facility took inthe justcreation under not be aware of how these changman, decided to sell off the franchise Even though the franchise has affect buyers and sellers in the valley, county owned/maintained the Gold Butterfly. Concernwas issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all on if they January 18, for filing objecby Victoria Howell his and property which with the highway, which is aastate addressed when private land was who was also in atten-to put envelopes the land, werewould in effect Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners spent every penny. es might affectFarrenthem. Fortunately, rights that pertained to the Bitterroot in the valley, Realty is still the to Lendman said that itand will notanalysis change a theowner scope ofthe the treatment to Exitroads heavy 2021 accompanied by athey Draft Dominic all the doors and then shut off access to Stevensville Riverunits. According highway, because nowfrom you’re goingequipment sold toproject aing new Fish, Wildlife dance. VanTuyn stated to sell the property, signed off on it. The involved creation tions to the Draft SupplemenThere are no paid employees; it’s an all-of Jasmin Shinn, founder and according to Kim Lendman, now the Valley. When they sold it, the fransame company. Additionally, accordkopf, activities director put valentine cards in Theat Stevensville Town Coun- SEIS thatPark, a 20-acre park onSeth the east bank have two accesses forlogging trucksaresults pulling and Parks got involved. The once-priGalewyrick Biomimicry 3.8 explaining of environmental evaluation. Photo a Forest Servicewith press release and trucks, mostly, theitems letter quotes the Bitterprovides a site-speset of easily accessible that had secret hiding the beginning of his tal Environmental Statement current owner ofwhether the valley half chise was split between the north to Lendman, the whole Bitterroot volunteer organization. But said 12 executive director ofnorth 1 Horse See EXIT, page them. Farrenkopf atwas Sapphire See FARM, page cil split onLutheran to accept just toreally the north of11the by private piece oftheing boats, and you’vebut just come out to, of the vate piece now belongs toShinn thesome state compartments where someone could stash presentation that there Kristin Kruse. root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide cific forest plan amendment about 90% of proposed not limited the impacts (Draft SEIS) for the Gold A Time Horse it costs about $200 perfishing month toaim feed Homes inDraft Hamilton, isRescue liked the idea.property. He askedCrews contacted the county aAtsmall piece of park land near the Stevi Wyean at 45 miles per hour - there developed access drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The was Management Wildlife Re-site. treatment areas are within to Willow Creek Road. Due tois aflask defining old-growth stanButterfly Project, a Bitterroot facility in Corvallis, got a nice these “gentle giants.” Then there are asking the bridge, community students Stevensville an item that was at schools and negotiated the donation of the are going to be accidents there.” I think opportunity it’s [the piecetoon to provide parents“But a learning seethe the area designated for insect and financial limitasource Objective “Maintain dards. Some objections to securing the veterinary bills, therapy, training, and boost lastForest week when she was 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 tions, Ravalli County would sufficient habitat 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 Moton suitable timberland to dense pockets of dead and dynot be able to accommodate by the January 18 deadline these 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 resident. people About years 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. area said the necessary maintenance having to do member with the Marilyn mercial vegetative treatment than the once. growing every year. They claim ago, a resident came could drop off valenBitterroot River on the northwest side said she had a real problem with old minutes and found that the land I think it can be used for parking. But then you don’t see. If you don’t see, then you don’t located in Hamilton. Part of the ridden, and some just become “pasture theand project, nor the of old-growth in dependent logging of have old growth, potenis by mountain pine during bytoMichael Howell when you folks who ofimpacted time because of the cold. agencies services.” communities Montana have within a 55,000 acre area ofto the Farrenkopf to see tines to fill the enveof the bridge, was 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 pets.” selection for awarding that gift first See DUI, page 10 don’t have a place to stay,” One individual, she said, who Mahar said the sheriff’s a voucher system for transin 2020. That first levy was to the drawing board. by John Down to be created in the last “It really opened the rehabilitation of the road after species. ” The letter notes that beetle, Douglas-fir bark beetle, tial impacts to wildlife and to forest inby theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 County for use as a roads converge, the bank is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty onAt theAwest side ofestablished the river, then was voting and according 1 Horse Time was Asonline part of its monthly said Mahar, “they generally had some mental issues and office, the police department, portation so someone can get permanent and asked for $9.5 One of the problems, ac50 years. To do this, they will door to some interesting 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 cording 2018. She’s originally to JCCS manager, meetings on housing issues in need cometo toask interact with law was living by the river, actuthe jail, and theButler courts were somewhere warmer in from the million, which said to Butler, was, “we as“Hopefully, the third tryAndrea the community conversations with people,” County objects to shifting of its environmental conseBitterroot National Forest spruce budworm damage. During the tenure of former issues… It is the fastest part of the years. idate highway property into the Town The original proposal was the city and county, the City of to enforcement, because ally wanted to come into the goodexorbitant at trying to figure out winter sogrew they knew arearound not freezing was and occurred sumed what the is the charm,” pass a channel levy, either which BVCC said Butter, speaking about Simmerman, 1commented Horse A Time Germany where shepeople mayor Jim Crews, the At owner of land and thethe deepest partAlthough of the in general Vickie Motley, park board mem-the of Stevensville. Ianalysis thinkup It’s something financial burden project quences to vegetation, officials stated that withdrawn in August of 2020 Hamilton has recently come theytried arehave in ado business where detention center. how to help folksofwho do not She’s here. because the trustees were Bitterroot Valley Community Bitterroot Valley Community has to twice before their recent “Ask and Listen” was one of the top four vote horses. always been a horse fan, at the river on the northeast side project had channel. you were to develop thatwith the ber,proposed said that nothing had County been done RDO Equipment Co. the She pileated woodpecker and agreement to Ravalli and believe designedIftoo to improve to focus upon emergency they areissuccess. spending much “From my perspective,” have a solid placehow to live in said this pastabout winter unsure of exactly the College was.” However, there College (BVCC) trustee andaccesswithout campaign, which helped the after Friends the Bitterroot but she is especially passionate getters. attempted to of shut off river on for fishing, I would also see a problem because the access problem had been See STEVI, page 16 8571 Running W. Road shelter issues in winter. City time trying to stay warm, Mahar said, “the most exthe winter and emphasized the sheriff’s department, process worked. They were seems to have been a major secretary, Sue Smith. She was The vote will take place organization to speak with the pine marten. it is contrary to current law forest resilience to natural project, the Ravalli County checkfor followed in the wake draft horses. She and her husband, a the andThat Alliance the Wild Attorney Karen Mahar told possibly taking food that they pensive way for any of us to that no one is ever jailed jail, and the police departpublic on the topic of creating under the impression that misunderstanding about the speaking about the organizaon May 7, via a mail-in ballot. and existing agreements. ” the retiree, “We realize these old growth disturbances like fire, insects Commissioners expressed Missoula, MT 59808 military and their two children of a $25,000 gift claiming in November Rockies filedCommissioners suit the don’t pay for, or some people the County house people in winter is in just because they are homement got together and helped the college. public desired an independent nature of the community tion’s upcoming attempt to According to trustee chair are listed in concern over impacts to Forest officials also received and disease; reduce sedifrom Tractor Supply. relocated toindicator Montanaspecies and bought a 20agency failed to use thewith besta lastthe week in an update on end upGuarino, taking gas they can’t theFollowing jail facility. It takes up less. She said that if as there is the 406-549-4171 manAccording who was staying at those meetings, community college, it was college. to Butler, ask public for help Carrie “We listened That sounds like a lot of acre farm which Shinn said can support the Forest Plan, but it is not comments from Philip Strobel ment sources in the Willow county owned and maintained available science managing Presenting a check for $7500 JCCS to Jasmin Shinn (second from left)inofpreviously 1inHorse At by who the issue that herin often afford.” space that issaid otherwise needed someone detention has many the detention center it make the trustees that this voted a high people believe to bearrare opportunity tooffice create a and wanted to hold true.” She from RDOequipment.com about 20 She currently moneyto but, college according to Shinn, Director of the NEPA Branch clear whether are other Creek watershed; improve roads, especially Willow Creek comes this issue She saidwith last BVCC winter duringwere, and itr: is notClark, anybody’s intent, these kinds of issues, there is horses. rangements tothere get a warmer levy be different. The margin. After being created, associated with theto outreach community in comthe Bitand others have A Time Draft Horse Rescue l towill Levi CPA, Andrea Simmerman, JCCS Branch elk habitatdeal andwith didn’t taking care of draft horses is bull trout habitat; restore Road. Office of the Regional Adminfrom a criminal justice point an extended cold they CPA.first I Also think, tothey have folksto atthe the nothing wrong releasing place where be near time the district was able to levy program runhe bycould the Universiterroot. According to trustee worked to alter theperiod levy to Manager, and Will Ramsey, pictured iswent Tiny, the non-profit’s mascot and thewith ply with the definition of old anview. expensive Last give page of had several people coming if there anso underlying them and facilitate hisofbrother for RESCUE, the winter. See See GOLD, page public, did after being for community funds. After a ty Montana. The reality is 65 vice chair, Jean Butler, it its best chance and to byESTIMATES •FREE INis THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• Yproposition. OUR HOME Ithis MPROVEMENT CO.COM In a they letter to the Forest istrator of helping the Environmental habitat including first horse thatmeadows, was rescued 1jail Horse At A Time. Photo by Victoria Howell. growth found in the Bitterroot “What happens in theof in and out the detention issue of homelessness thatofcan being move significantly to somewhere else down that approved for the creation voted would be only the fourth address theofconcerns of the SeeSee SHELTER, page14 4 BVCC, page criminal realm is the that center for an extended period addressed college throughdistrict other is warmer. She saidwent some abecommunity twice, the trustees back its kind injustice the state, and public.
Public Scammers thwarted, vigilance recognized County budget meeting Community Wildfire Protectionon Plan adopted track on BNF Cowboy Ball Halfway Climbing through fiscal scheduled year, county Plan
RCFW aids future conservationists Surviving COVID budget looking good
Hearts full love Stevi toofrevisit refinancing bonds
Stock Farm presents development proposal DUI Task Force, MAPS to partner on special video
North valley Exit Realty has a new face Gold Butterfly project draws some objections
Spreading love horse Local draft rescue Stevi to return park land thriving to county
BVCC gives it one more college try
City updates commissioners on emergency shelter needs Contact us for all your equipment needs. VISIT OUR SHOWROOM IN THE
SOUTHGATE MALL
493-0051