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Eagles in winterHumane Groundbreaking held Association for medical Bitter Root Three Mile Community Centercenter open
Joanne Moore - she’s making pies! celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary speech, occupa-
by Victoria by Victoria Howell Howell
shelter. $140,000. a levy, so this won’t any tional andhave physical According The park additional impact on people’s therapy services – It’s been a long time to Colleen board made property taxes. including a therapy coming, but the new Three Schmiedeke, the decision addition to the the Bitterroot Health by John Dowd a pie with,”Inand has tried justloan, about Mile Community Center is up who serves on to take out a project was paid for by the pool – plus imaging held a groundbreakby Michael Howell and cut the ribbon at last week’s everything. andWhen running. Located at 4433 in pie both the park loan to finish Community Senior and labbeen services. it comes to expertise HerThree selections have ceremony, saidMile concerning thedictated ing last Wednesday Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (the official name) making in the Bitterroot, few can by price and availability. Seasonal Bishop said “It organization’s 50 years of service, An new open house celebration wasdisfor medical theits center is on the east side If practice community She said they which raisedwhat overfruits $80,000 pute the reigning champion. changes also affect are they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old complex that will be of Loneperfect, Rock Park. build- pies center board, worked with picnics, makes then The the (BRHA) closest ripe.in Tothrough keepand upcommunity with demand, she ladies 1972 it’s still run by a Humane Association’s new the facility open ingperfection contains amust large they started Farmers State rummage sales, bingo nights built just north of bemeeting to those made by has several freezers packed with animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” room, aMikesell warming kitchen, a has been working on Bank to keep and donations fromof commubymorning, spring 2023, Stevensville at theMoore. Joanne She frozen Every Moore Kathiefruit. Butts, President of the Road in Hamilton. The event served ain 2012 state-of-the-art audio visual this their loan nity members. Other major and that they plan making pies for Glen’s Cafe for over calls the cafe to see what pies they corner of Kootenai double purpose. It included Board, said, “This organization has system, and a gorgeous view a ribbon and incorpopayments contributors were the Three on continuing to 30 years. That is averaging eight pies a are short on and usually makes them Creek and Mountains of the Road Bitterroot totherated reasonable. Mile Fireway District, the Lone cutting ceremony inpies honor of new in 2014. come such a long since itabout was day, 56 a week, 224 a month and in the evening. It takes her expand Hwy 93. including tours of the whole the west. She said the Those payRock 50 Park andago. theservices. Rapp started about years Ipies. feel aFamfacility, 2,688 pies per year. In her lifetime, four hours to make all her “We’re bringing the The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. John Bishop, Bitbuilding, and an array of food and huge sense of responsibility to honor Moore has made roughly 80,688 pies, Along with the pies, she was also care to the patients, ” to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there terroot CEO, those whobookkeeper have come before us and drink honor ofhas thenot organization’s and sheinHealth says she missed many the cafe until about six Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that are were many volunteers who he said. make as good as italso candid be the as we set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus days. yearsit ago. Moore shopthat serves Lone Rock School. When already being helped on theLois project, and HedgeThe private non-profi t organization the course for cafe, the next 50 years.” Moore has tried her hand at nearly ping for the driving to MissouDaly Hospital had The surrounding park conSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received reduced every kind ofand pie baseball imaginable, includla, for many However, most chair McCormack saidpeth, that the ofasthe was fisoccer rst organized in 1972. In 1984, tains “got really Schmiedeke pricesyears. from contractors. The ing coconut cream, cherry, peach, people would not guess, her passion Three Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Colorganization conducted a successful Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the hospital board, fields, tennis and volleyball involved,” the is proud that general contractor donated lastrawberry, huckleberry, is not in pie-making, or inproject thethe cafe leen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising campaign fund new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, gave saidto this courts, a walking a mincedplaygroup had they didn’t meat, mixed berry, sour cream raisin, at all. In fact, she has been running See CENTER, page 3 new community center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction but then the Covid-19 the BRHA on Fairgrounds Road ground andland a covered picnic raised Bitterroot about have to run hasseven-years-old. been four years Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitchocolate, banana cream, pumpkin, cattle since with a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit she andwas construction costs inonthe works,she but ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon blackberry and many more. Currently, Having grown up a ranch, skyrocketed. As a result, the group in 1990, the Bessenyey estate deeded there were John Bishop, pictured from left, leads a gathering people involved in the farming celebrating the opening of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michaelof Howell. the staples at Glen’s Cafe include apgrew up around andsome cattle, had to take out a mortgage to finish the land to the organization where ple, rhubarb, blueberry, raspberry and and participated 4-H. delaysindue toWhen the Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. Theeven facility on the property that hadHealth housedbuilding the Sue McCormack, who serves on the current shelter is located. The blackberry. she was young, she would travel all 2 See SHELTER, page pandemic. She said shelter since 1984. theat organization’s of directors will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road around and Hwy new building building “You gotta replaces use whatan youold can get,” the93state during fair time, their vision is that just north of the Stevensville Junction. by Nathan cumstances, having She adds said Moore. All her pies are hand made Boddy entering her cattle to win.that the the Stevensville encountered people important from scratch. That means with no Moore’s firstmost cousin, Tana Christine Staub, a driving falling “quality, victim to mail to combat facility will be more canned filling, all hand made crust and Meuchel, added,way “She’s done itsuch all!” Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as been providing force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse is for people the fruit has all been picked locally, explaining that Moore has done of a “medical center” rather than just a accessible, personalized 901use, S. 1st Street, was recently As a certified shipto ask questions or bought fresh. She said she will everything a person can do on aDaly clinic. She also said that Marcus The new 12-acre campus will health care” fordepot 90 years. ping for FedEx, and start the con“whatever I can figure out howpresented to make with a Certificate of ranch, from the cattle to fencing, Murphy. She led the which isversation a criticalthe access In recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and Hospital, Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe with those cooking, canning and all thethrough in-becommissioners hospital, was69-years-old, recently rated #4byinlove. the Joanne Moore sits in the cornernic ofFarrenkopf and Hamilton specialty services. Two physicians have is legally justified to you know and have been taking steps to a lengthy fund fund tween. At Moore is a by Victoria Howell me like a ton of Glen’s Cafe behind some of herPolice home-Chief Stephen Snavely. open package which Staub doesn’t nation for quality by the national rataccounting that, to sum already been hired, along with a nurse ranch girl at heart. She also has a invest in all theacommubricks.” In been his presentation City bears its shipping know thethe details madeNumerous pies. She Bald has been making pies itof up, shows county, blue heeler dog she talks fondly of ing agency, out 351 similar facilities. practitioner, andwas two more doctors Eagles have congregatingtointhe the Burnt area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. Photos nities of Fork the Bitterroot, When it comes Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential overall, doing very well for over 30 years, and they have made and still loves her cattle. by Michael Victoria Howell being recruited. also be he said, with clinicsand in doingaresent to Covid, Greg Howell. home from There willby protocol, victims are told, but on its tax collections and the cafe famous. Photo by JohnSnavely Dowd. said that he wants the The Bitterroot Overstreet has a Nathe hospital with Hamilton Police Department so in the presence of sheSee knows thatpage they 3 PIES, showing revenues over 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 30th from 6 to 8 p.m. 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 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 developsuch 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 of a draft forest 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 At the second regular Associamore Hamilton Downtown Association. Hamilton Downtown Hamilton’s Façadeing Improvement er came to the Boxxe Shoppe to a scammer inTo make these improvements resent the IRS or in is looking pretty good, One big savings was Committee, and the vice chair of the Fair Board, colon cancerinin 99. “I jokingly say Plan(HDA), (CMP). virtual with counciltoand mayor local Chicago, tional council affordable for businesses and proper- to Ravalli “We have suchthe a unique asset in our tion partnership the Program ishow a partnership between meeting of theThe two-member intending send a package Illinois.members. Social Security according budgeted funds for which he’s been onby forNa12 years.and A real estatesuch February of 2021. that 51 isthe brain Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting will be held on owners, program provides 1:1CFO downtown district, already City of Hamilton and the Downtown the City ofHe Hamilton, and should run. “We’ll do our ty job, ” Christine said via government FedEx. HDA, Administration. County Klarryse the county’s share in Stevensville Town Council, on agent for 18 ayears here inthriving the Bitterroot, and also He wentSee through damage material.” Zoom. below for than Boddy. matching grants up to $7,500. strong and small busiHamilton Improvement the Downtown HamiltonGibson Business customer Sometimes they a frequent commenter January 27,Business town clerk Jenelle Thewas in the Army for 21 years, his organizational and instructions and a link chemotherapy and But COVID-19 See COUNTY, page HDA manages the Program, and ness community to build on. We are10 District, announces they have seemed received Improvement District. To improve conwill tell their at council meetings during Joan Mell, an attorney familiar with the profile of the Berthoud told the council and to join the meeting. Five fundraising skills, and discipline, have been put to in late August he was was no joke. “It plans to continue the Program beyond grateful for this opportunity to has broada Montana Main Street grant from the and maintain downtown Hamilton’s fused and unOver the victims that a loved one the last administration. In and visual fromappeal, Hamilton, was recvictims, butuse wishes similar meetings audience thatcancer she was having good as chair the Cowboy committee. this initial state award with commuen theoflanded scope ininwhich Hamilton Montana Department of Commerce historic character told thatpublic the got so I potential felt familiar with course of herbad jail, Ball orthe that a prize that others within the commupublic comment, Crews told ognized for stepping in (virtual) were held in said the committee raise nity support through donations Freeman to the Downtown Association assist our in thebeen amount of $50,000 to create a the Façade Improvement Program is decade trouble streaming the meetthe process, with has been won,hopes butcan a to fee needs had eradicated. like I couldn’t nity wouldDowntown help her look outbusiness members to continue to build 2021. Improvement that those maktorestoration handle the the prosecution newly created Hamilton Façade Program forthe thecouncil intended to encourage the $50,000 this year, to forbethe expansion of the rodeo and Staub Boxxe paid for release of the had She breathe, likefor I their safety. ingsOverstreet on the internet. said At least oneour economic vitality. Not only do In addition the rehabilitation downFoundation. revitalization ofto the historic downtown became sus-and Shoppe, funds. just The getting scammers will ing public comment shouldof eligible caseload of Town Attorney bucking chutes. “They’re old,” he said. surgery on YouTube October wasStaub being water the former chanof the potential victims she opportunity to learn town properties. Improved building “We are looking forward to add- need to building improvements increase the core. Hamilton’s Façade Improvement picious when haswhile now commonly use a getting legitimate “They 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 nosupporting longer about and participate in appearances enhance the overall ing a program that will have such a sense of pride in our business commuProgram will offer grants considering recovered address, but will be ready to up.facility Bucking stock can be hard on metal.” removal, theof fidevelopnalhad set up I imagine audience. He also said, “This hospitalized, and then recov- water extended nursing and theoffset process working but they positive impact on our small business nity but alsothe increase to costs related to façadethe imcustom-attractiveness of the district for new approximately grab package fromactually a values, porch The 10th annual cowboy ball – property which treatment in the boarding to be had to be provided with a ride notand a question andand answer” ering, Covid-19. Mell a climbing plan, aing new Facebook page.this Howbusinesses visitors, and forfrom people community and historic downtown,” provements undertaken by landowner’sisage $60,000 in or front door when it arrives. started 11the years ago but couldn’t be held last year as to colon cancer journey. like,” recallsto the bank as well week’s meeting “It’s comment. ” did thearea. work at no charge See GRANT, page 2 whopublic live, work and shop in the said ers and businesses. particular cash, allRobin of to Pruitt, Executive Director, “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 helpThe Town of Stevensville recognized attorney Joan aMell, she says, pointing out that red Facebook page said it was not • Review overall “This is the first year we’ve ever done diagnosed with that I was not Unfortunatelently 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 Desserts are provided 4Hin members. time having members of $10,000 or by more order very weakened,” said through the issues. Mayorthey’re Steve dinner. Gibson, council coming into the members Cindy Brown and The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • 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 at 901 1st Street in Hamilton. nity.See See COWBOY BALL page 4 SURVIVING, page by Photo Michael Howell Howell. such cirStaub is The Montana Department of Agtoward theS.top Covid. Photo by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” See PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. riculture (MDA) confirmed Garden of the plant, and Last week the Ravalli County Commissioners apLoosestrife at two different sites in bloom in July or proved adoption of a memorandum of understandWestern Montana. These are the August. ing with the Ravalli County DUI Task Force and first cases of Garden Loosestrife Purple looseletter the commissioners statedInstituteProtection Nationalstrife Forest(Lythrum 1987 Forest aspen and whitebark pine; MAPS Media to produceAgency. a video The designed confirmed in Howell Montana. by Michael to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavGarden loosestrife (Lysimachia that “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide Plan. salicaria), a ior. impacts to vulgaris), an aggressive non-nativeA new Montana-listconcerning the Draft SEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated record of decision The deadlineHowell closed on if it would be possible Victoria The DUI Task approved of wetland plant, has been found in ed on Priority 1B 17, year, theForce facility tookButterfly. inthe justcreation under bybyVictoria Howell thewhen Gold Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued December retain old growth status in all to put envelopes on weed, January 18, forHowell filingInobjecby Victoria his property which would in effect with the highway, which is aastate addressed private land was Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners western Montana. July 2023, noxious spent every penny. roads heavy theowner scopeand ofthe the analysis treatment to 2021 accompanied by a to Draft all the doors and then Dominic Farrenshutmany off access Stevensville Riverunits. According highway, because nowfrom you’re goingequipment to on it. sold toproject aing new Fish, Wildlife signed off creation tions to theShinn, Draft Supplemenapproximately 0.1 acres along the has shared Jasmin founder and There The are no paid involved employees; it’s an all-of kopf, activities director put valentine cards in The Stevensville Town Coun- SEIS thatphysical Park, a 20-acre park on the east bank have release two accesses forlogging trucksatrucks, pulling and Parks got involved. once-pritheitems letter quotes the Bittera Forest Service press and mostly, provides a site-speset of easily accessible that hadThe secret hiding Stillwater River, west of Kalispell, charactal Environmental Statement volunteer organization. ButtoShinn said executive director of 1 Horse atwas Sapphire them. Farrenkopf cil split onLutheran whether to accept just toreally the north of the private piece 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 the impacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of proposed and an additional 0.2 acres along teristics and oc(Draft SEIS) for the Gold A Time Horse Rescue it costs about $200 perfishing month toaim feed Homes inDraft Hamilton, liked the idea. He asked aAtsmall piece ofRiver park land near the property. the county Stevi Wyean at 45 miles per hour - there developed access drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The was the Bitterroot inisHamilton cupies theCrews same to Willow Creek Road. Due tois aflask Management Wildlife Re-site. treatment areas are within defining old-growth stan-contacted Butterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility in Corvallis, got a nice asking the community students at schools Stevensville bridge, an item that was and negotiated the donation of the are going to be accidents there.” “But I think it’s [the piece on the to provide parents a learning opportunity to see the were mapped and treated by local type objections of riparianto the source Objective “Maintain area designated for insect and financial limitadards. Some 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 onMontana the west, securing 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 land managers and MDA’s Early areas. Last year lopes. the disease sufficient habitat tions, Ravalli County would decision were received because of the little love this special envelopes and presented with aValencheck for $7500 associated costsold-growth to rehabilitate meeting. The land ownership willnew now rivertwo 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 Detection, Rapid Response (EDRR) has closely 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-comProgram. Monitoring will be conrelated natives, had to be emptied more really popular, and About four years resident. people piece, which tomostly the Then Council member 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 with the Marilyn ducted on both sites and adjacent also with yellow mercial vegetative treatment than the once. growing every year. ago,for a in resident came could drop off valenBitterroot River on the northwest side said 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 the logging lands the next several years. flowers: fringed 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 awarding is that gift tial pets.” See DUI, page 10 Gardenfor loosestrife a Class A impacts loosestrife (Lyrehabilitation of the road afteron the species. ” side The letter to converge, wildlife and Douglas-fir bark beetle, forest inby the Sapphire Mounin 2017 Ravalli for use as a roads thetobankbeetle, 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 (highest priority) noxious weed in simachia ciliata) DrafttoSEIS limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and the project is complete. Ravalli Road.I think there are potential river access site. high-Willow Creek bly steep… liability for western recreational purposes within five you havethe access potentially consoltains eastbranch Corvallis. Oregon, aof Class B (second and water looseby 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 est priority) in Washington and is strife (LysimaSimmerman, 1 Horse A Time Germany where sheI grew around mayor Jim Crews, the At owner of land channel and thethe deepest partAlthough of the in general Vickie Motley, park board memof Stevensville. thinkup It’s financial burden of the project quences analysis tosomething vegetation, officials have stated that invasive and problematic in several chia thyrsiflora). 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 had channel. If you were to develop that ber, said that nothing had been done RDO Equipment Co. the pileated woodpecker and to improve agreement with the proposed to Ravalli County andbut believe other states. of It the is aBitterroot rhizomatousproject pe- is designed To report a after Friends 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 rennial forb that grows three to six suspected Gar8571 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 feet tall and can form dense stands den Loosestrife and existing agreements. ” “We and realize these old growth disturbances like fire, insects Commissioners expressed Missoula, MT 59808 military retiree, their two children of a $25,000 gift claiming in November Rockies filed suit the along waterways and in riparian plant, contact 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 useare theopposite best areas. The leaves or your local counacre 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 dinates, and arrange for a site visit The Montana Department of whorled groups of three to five, Presenting ty weeda check district, available in science in managing for $7500 from JCCS to Jasmin Shinn (second from left) of 1 Horse At RDOequipment.com money but, accordingtotofive Shinn, Creek watershed; 20 horses. She currently roads, especially Willow Creek Director of the NEPAabout Branch cleariswhether there are other improve soon as possible. ForJCCS additional Agriculture serving Montana lance-shaped, MSU Extension agent, or A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, lthe to r:MonLevi Clark, as CPA, Andrea Simmerman, Branch elk habitat and three didn’t com- inches taking care of draft horses is resources and contact information, Agriculture and growing prosperity long and softly hairy, which gives tana Department of Agriculture. 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 expensive Last tinge. visit the Detection, Rapid Reunder the Big See Sky. See ForRESCUE, more page inforpage 65 them a slightly grayish-green Leave themeadows, plant in thebyESTIMATES ground GOLD, •FREE INTime. THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• Yproposition. OUR HOME IMPROVEMENT CO.COM istrator Environmental In aso letter to the Forest habitat firstincluding horse that was rescued 1 Horse At A Photo by Early Victoria Howell. of the growth found in the Bitterroot sponse webpage here: agr.mt.gov/ mation on department programs Flowers are yellow, have five petit can be correctly identified, take and services, visit agr.mt.gov. als, appear in clusters at stem ends plenty of pictures, record GPS coor- Noxious-Weeds.
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