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Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Wednesday, February 2022 Wednesday, January Wednesday, April26, 19, 2023 Wednesday, February 2,9,2022
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Eagles in winterHumane Groundbreaking held for medical center Bitter Root Association Three Mile Community Center open Landowner urges open space protection
celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary speech, occupa-
by Victoria by Victoria Howell Howell by John Dowd
shelter. $140,000. a levy, so this won’t any tional andhave physical thinking According The park additional“Stop impact on people’s therapy services – yourself and It’s been a long time to Colleen board made property about taxes. including a therapy “My philosthink to about next coming, but the new Three Schmiedeke, the decision In addition the the loan, the Bitterroot Health ophy that you generation,” said Mile Community Center is up who serves on to take out project was for by the pool – plus imaging held ais groundbreakby Michael Howell anda cut the ribbon atpaid last week’s can make DeVoe. andalways running. Located at 4433 both the park loan to finish Three Community and lab services. ceremony, saidMile concerning the Senior ing last Wednesday more money, but DeVoe owns Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (the official name) Bishop said “It organization’s 50 about years of service, An open house celebration was for new medical you can’t make half of a 820theits center is on the east side community She said they which raised over $80,000 they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little complex thatsaid will beThe build- center board, more land,” acre parcel picnics, in old the of Lone Rock Park. worked with through community ladies in 1972 and it’s still run by Humane Association’s (BRHA) new the facility open ing contains a large they started Farmers State rummageupper sales,portion bingo nights Charlie aof meeting ofathe built justDeVoe, north animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” room, a warming working on Bank to keep and donations from commuby spring 2023, landowner inatthe Burnt Forkof area. Stevensville the kitchen, a Butts, President of the Road in Hamilton. The event served state-of-the-art visual this ain 2012 their loan Kathienity members. Other Bitterroot Valley.audio The area is amajor prisand that they plan corner of Kootenai double purpose. It included Board, said, “Thistine organization has system, andmany a gorgeous view a ribbon and incorpopayments contributors were thehabitat, Three He, among wildlife on continuing to Creek andtoMountains of the Road Bitterroot totherated reasonable. Mile Fireway District, Lone others, decided and natural it cutting ceremony in honor of new in 2014. come such a long sincethe it as was expand Hwy 93. the west. She said the Those payRock 50 Park andbefore theservices. Rapp work with a local tours of the whole was started about years ago. I civilizafeel aFamfacility, including “We’re the The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. nonprofit organition. Hisbringing property John Bishop, building, and anBitarray of food and huge sense of responsibility to honor care to the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there zation called the is home to a yearterroot 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 Bitter Root Land herd nearly he said. make good asround itvolunteers can be asofwe set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus that serves Lone Rock School. When already being helped on300 theLois project, and Trust, in order to elk that move Hedge- in The privatehad non-profit organization the course for the next 50 years.” Daly Hospital The surrounding Schmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received help preserve his park conand out reduced of the area. 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 property from subDeVoe says there conducted a successful Countess 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 division inMargarite perpeare over 150 types laof leen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising campaign fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, gave saidto this project courts, walking a playgroup had they didn’t tuity. Hea explained native wildflowers, 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 aland covered picnic raised Bitterroot about that, as more natural springs and 3 has been four page years Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-boundhave as Bit-to run with a 99-year pandemic hit and an construction is bought, sold lease. Six years later, in environment the works, costs butfor ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon skyrocketed. As a numerous result, the large groupand in 1990, theinto Bessenyey estate deeded and broken 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 to take out a mortgage to animals. finish the landthe to the organization where parcels, open small game delays to the Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facility In on the property that hadHealth housedbuilding the Sue McCormack, who serves on natural environorderdue to protect the current shelter is located. The Seespace, SHELTER, page pandemic. said2 theat organization’s of directors will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93 the ment of Montana heShe pushed new building replaces an old building shelter since 1984. their vision that is disappearing. for his sister, who just north of the Stevensville Junction. by Nathan Boddy cumstances, having She adds thatisthe He believes that in previously owned the Stevensville encountered people most important order to protect the the entire parcel, 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 future of the natto place thepeople piece force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized ural environment into a conservation 901 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. and the animals easement with the presented with a Certificate of care” ping for FedEx, and start conMurphy. Shethe led the Hospital, which is a critical access and plants that live trust. In recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe versation with those commissioners through on it, something rated #4byinlove. the services. Two physicians have hospital, was recently nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton legallysteps justified you know have beenistaking to tospecialty a lengthy fundand fund by Victoria Howell me like a ton of must be done to ChiefofStephen Snavely. open packageBitter which doesn’t The viewPolice from part the DeVoe property. Photo Root Land by Staub the national rataccounting that, to sum already beenTrust. hired, along with a nurse nation for quality invest in all theacourtesy commubricks.” stop development. See Land, page 2 In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details it up, shows the county, ing agency, out of 351 similar facilities. practitioner, and two more doctors Numerous Bald Eagles have been congregating in the Burnt area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. was Photos nities of Fork the Bitterroot, When it comes Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential overall, doing very well by Michael Victoria Howell are being recruited. There willby also be he said, with clinics in to Covid, Greg Howell. sent home from Snavely said that he wants the protocol, and doing victims are told, but on its tax collections and The Bitterroot Overstreet has a NaHamilton 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: 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 don’t fool around! the good things that happen able to uncover the He was home for to departments say12th. they This are shipmost while thisOverstreet, Wednesday, 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 by John In total, the collective of will be aiding 30th fromDowd 6 to 8 p.m. ing his department’s experithe package: nearlyDuring that time, paperwork.” Other up, it’s going to be an event worthy oftoa23% jubilee an attorney in amounted of youth financially in over 200 camp to share information 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 Gettingthe youth interested insuch car- opportunity. opportunities. “Participants will have regarding developwhich the customer scammers include the budget year, the part to job vacancies Rod Freeman is the chair of this year’s appears to wheninvestithe council considers Stevensville, was went down to 51, rying traditions to be do continuing their due diligence ment on of athe draft forest of Montana In early March, a customwasand 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 addiis something at the forefront of the gate each one of these opportunities,” Climbing 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 Committee, and the vice chair of the Fair Board, colon cancer 99. “I jokingly say minds of of many Bitterrooters. This is explained Tom with Montana Plan (CMP). The virtual council mayor how Powers, local Chicago, tional council meeting thein two-member intending toand 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 definitely the case foron the combined Youth Experience meeting will be held should run.Outdoor He “We’ll do our job, ” Christine said via government FedEx. Matters County CFO Klarryse the Administration. county’s share Stevensville Town Council, on agent for 18 years here in the Bitterroot, andin also efforts ofSee thebelow Montana and Montana Conservation Elders. He went through damage material.” Zoom. for Conservation than Boddy. Thewas customer Sometimes they a frequent commenter Gibson January 27, town clerk Jenelle in the Army for 21 years, his organizational and Elders and First Hunt The various camps accept kids instructions and a linkFoundation. chemotherapy and But COVID-19 Seewill COUNTY, seemed con- meetings during tell theirpage 10 at council Mell, an attorney with the profile of the Berthoud told the council andfused Together, up Montana Matters between the ages of seven toJoan 17 years to late join August themaking meeting. Five fundraising skills, and discipline, haveone been put to in he was wasthe no joke.familiar “It and unOver victims that a loved has the last administration. In from Hamilton, wasgot recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar public meetings Youth Outdoor Experience, have old. There is no entry fee to the expo, audience thatcancer she was havingthey 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 that others withinFreeman the commucomment, in (virtual) were inmore reached out to held many and food Crews will betold availableognized for pur-for stepping said the committee trouble streaming the meet-organizathe public process, decade with has been won,hopes but a to feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t nity would help her look out 2021.over the years tions give Montana chase, by Mission Bistro the the council thatprovided those makto handle prosecution this year, to forbethe expansion of the rodeo andthe Staub Boxxe paid for release of the had to breathe, likefor I their safety.$50,000 ingsOverstreet on the internet. She said At least one In the addition to the to get outside. youth opportunity from Stevensville. A couple of newof Town became susShoppe, Staub funds. The scammers will ing public comment should caseload Attorney bucking chutes. “They’re just getting old,” he said. surgery on October was being water the former YouTube chanof the potential victims she opportunity to learn All of this effort has culminated into when organizations involved with the expo has now picious commonly use a getting legitimate “They need to be replaced. They’re banged address the mayor, not the Greg Overstreet while he was 23, 2021 for ostomy boarded, or what aided was a resident at a local nel they had was no longer about participate in one bigand event, a youth outdoorconsidering expo. will be offering special camps to be recovered address, buton will be ready to up.facility Bucking stock can be hard metal.” removal, theof fidevelopnalhad I imagine audience. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recov- water extended nursing and theThe process event will takeset place 6, auctioned. One will be a kids summer working but they up May the customapproximately grab the package fromactually a porch The 10th annual cowboy ball – which the boarding to had be to be provided with a ride notand a question and answer” outering, from Covid-19. ing a climbing plan, between 10in a.m. and this 3 Howp.m. ater’s theisage camp, and nonprofit, of Thompson atreatment new Facebook page. $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 will covRavalli County Fairgrounds HamilFallspublic calledcomment. Project ASCENT, offering session. “It’s ” did the work at no charge particular cash, all of to “They always direct the ever, members of the public inthe Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has been upgraded this The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda ton. The event will see over 40details orgaa float camp, which will be a first for of the which was victim to Tom sendPowers it, ‘no signature The mayor had said previousthe town. “I just wanted to (Left to right) Pat Collins, Al Charters, Fred Upchurch and discuss who had he tried access for theyouths and the expo. The other is Trout Unlimit“It’s common sense to me,” year. topics: surgery, isfrauduwhen I realized nizations setwas uptobooths transaction. being required,’” she adds. ly that he would be answering publicly thank Joan for helplocations for the possible Miss Montana Fly-over. Photo by John Dowd. Thesays, Town of Stevensville recognized attorney Joan aMell, she pointing out that red Facebook page it These was not • families Review overall “This is the first year we’ve ever done their tosaid visit. organied which will offer two spots for their lentlythat diagnosed with I was not Unfortunatede- town, The Bank Secrecy Actfully questions from the public. ing me and helping the ” flags abound when seniors are center, for filling in while town attorney Greg Overstreet objectives and desired accessible. Berthoud askedsummer catered dinner,” said Freeman. Thebanks University zations include numerous COVID-19. taking Covid ly, it was notGeorgetown Lake Camp. manded from of 1970 requires to and jump. Details onscammed. the flyover“Ifare “There’s a lot that’s going to happen being a person Crews saidwill thatalso theybe a climbing said Overstreet. outcomes ofas the public camps, hunting education pack There wall seniorseriously ofPictured Montana Catering Service will provide theof had Covid-19. with Mell are, l to r, Overstreet, for patience she worked camps, “I was obviously enough. Staub’s first also citizen keep track of withdrawals being negotiated, and their presence is 80 years old, and all is of a there!” Powers explained. According conversations camps, government and non-profit or- be atprepared the expo for andsome Miss Montana, the should Desserts are provided by 4H members. time having members of $10,000 or more in very weakened,” said through the issues. Mayorthey’re Steve dinner. Gibson, council members Cindy Brown and not guaranteed. to him, there will also be anorder RV show sudden coming into the The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide an update ganizations focussed conservation famous airplane, may do a flyover. IfSTEVI, encountered See page 2 bank “interesting comments” Greg Overstreet talks about his recentfrom brush with death due tothe commuOverstreet. “Itformer hit on Jim Crews, mayor Some other organizations involved and several other separate events on 4 to withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. Photo by Victoria Howell. at 901 S. 1st Street in Hamilton. See COWBOY BALL page See SURVIVING, page 5 and much more. weather permits, it is possible that by Michael Howell such cirnity. Staub is Mule Deer Foundation, Covid. Photo by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 will be the the the same weekend, close to and in the makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” See PLAN, pagewith 2 the singPhoto by jumpers, Nathan Boddy. The event will start there will be retired/off duty Bighorn Sheep Foundation, the Backfairgrounds. ing of the National Anthem, and then military and smoke jumper included, Last week the Ravalli County Commissioners apcountry Horsemen, the Ravalli County In total, since 2013, Montana Matwill open for visitors to search through doing a jump from the plane down proved adoption of a memorandum of understandSearch and Rescue, The Montana ters Youth Outdoor Experience has the many organizations, which will into the fair grounds. The flyover ing with the Ravalli County DUI Task Force and Bowhunters the Bitter statedgiven over 600 opportunities to letter youth the commissioners NationalisForest Forestby the aspen and whitebark pine; Association, each provide aHowell lesson for participants being1987 organized Montana MAPS Media InstituteProtection to produceAgency. a video The designed by Michael Root Land Trust, the Foundation for to attend camps. They feel as though it that is meant to showcase something to Pat toCounty help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavthat “Ravalli contains recommendations manage timber toWildlife provideManagement, Plan. Museum of Flying. According the U.S. Forestobjects is a partnership among all the organiabout what they offer. Visitors will A new Collins with the Montana Museum ior. concerning theorganization’s Draft SEIS for forest products and jobs; the andMontana to unmitigated impacts tozations involved. record of decision Service, Game Warden “Our The deadline closed on by Victoria Howell if it would be possible The DUI Task approved creation of keep track of the booths they visit and of Flying, Montana’s historic plane year, theForce facility took inthe just under by Victoria Howell the Gold Butterfly. Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all Association and many more. philosophy is so that no one organizato favorput envelopes onto be there January 18, for filing by Victoria Howell his property which in what effect with the highway, which is aastate addressed when private land was Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners will be asked to put inobjecfor their wants towould support spent every penny. Participants thefrom general public tion involved can takeand credit forWildlife this,” roads heavy equipment the scope of the analysis treatment units. According to and 2021 accompanied by and a to Draft all event. the doors and Dominic Farrenshutthen offdoing access Stevensville River highway, because now you’re going to on it. sold toproject aing new owner Fish, signed off The involved the creation ites for a raffle at the end of the Tom is because “We love tions to the Draft SupplemenJasmin Shinn,director founder and There are no paid employees; it’s an all-of said should enter at the Old Corvallis kopf, activities put valentine cards The this Stevensville Town20CounPark, ain 20-acre park on the east bank have release two accesses for trucks pulling and Powers. Parks got involved. once-pritheitems letter quotes the Bittera to Forest Service press and logging mostly, SEIS thatto provides site-speatrucks, set of easily accessible that hadThe secret hiding During raffle, nearly special show offathe plane, and continue tal Environmental Statement organization. ButtoShinn saidthe executive director of 1 Horse For more information about entrance on the north side of thevolunteer atwas Sapphire them. Farrenkopf cil split onLutheran whether to accept just toreally the north of the private piece oftheRoad boats, and you’ve just come out to, of vate piece now belongs the state compartments where someone could stash some camp spots will be awarded, and to promote aviation and parachutroot Forest Plan’s Forest-wide but not limited the impacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of proposed (Draft SEIS) for the Gold event, interested parties can the the fairgrounds. The handicapped A Time Horse it costs about $200 per month tovisit feed Homes inDraft Hamilton, isRescue liked the idea. He According askedCrewstocontacted aAtsmall piece of park land near the property. the county Stevi Wyean at 45 miles per hour - there aflask developed fishing access drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The aim was general camp signups and informaing.” “it’s a very to Willow Creek Road. Due toiswebsite Management Wildlife Re-site. treatment areas are within defining old-growth stan- Powers, group www.mtconservatioentrance will be from the west side. Butterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility in Corvallis, got a nice asking theto community students Stevensville bridge, anto 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 tion on how sign up each camp unique opportunity to have them here source Objective “Maintain area designated for insect and resource and financial limitadards. Some objections to securing the nelders.org. Traffic will be directed thevarious Ravalli boost last week when she was veterinary bills, therapy, training, and tobe send his athat and daycares to make National Forest project considered atresidents the March 24th council land on the speaking west, potential Mayor Steve Gibsonbysaid he didn’t west] still a viable oftoland for the ways in which any youngpiece person can hide will available throughout the day. doing this,” about the flyover Last year lopes. the disease County Sheriff’s Reserve Deputies. 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 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 Simmerman, 1 Horse A Time Germany whereEquipment sheI grew around RDO Co. 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 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, was one of the top four vote at the river on the northeast side project had you were to develop thatwith the ber,proposed said that nothing had County been done 8571 W. Road Equipment Co. the Running pileated woodpecker and 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. relocated toindicator Montana and bought a 20406-549-4171 agency failed to use the best RDOequipment.com 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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