Bitterroot Star - October 26, 2022

TONIX: will be part of a ‘bio-tech corridor from Missoula to Hamilton’

of thought into its expansion plans so that others could attract quality infrastruc ture like this facility. He said it makes the Bitterroot a better place to live and for our kids a place to come back to or to stay. “All the planning that was put into this shows that we are looking at the future and asking how can we do this in an orderly fashion, how can we do this to make sense. So, this project is a perfect example.”

Signing for Tonix was CEO Dr. Seth Lederman. Lederman said the first time he met Senator Baucus was in relation to his company’s work on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in the military.

“I mentioned that we had this infectious disease program,” said Lederman, “and the moment I said that, he said ‘Hamilton Montana’. In the same sentence, he said Dr. Marshall Bloom [Director of Scien tific Research at RML]. Very soon after that we met Julie Foster who has been very important in helping us and moving this on.”

Foster is Executive Director of the Ravalli County Economic Develop ment Authority which played a key role in coordinating the creation of the County’s economic development district and the extension of the City of Hamilton’s water and sewer infrastructure north of town, all of which helped lay the groundwork for the type of public/private cooperation needed to accomplish something like the addition of a new vaccine produc tion facility in the area.

After noting how much was involved in getting to the current agreement, Lederman addressed the future. “Today,” he said, “we are here to celebrate the signing of the devel opment agreement, a big step forward in our goal of having this facility built and I want to thank everyone who has been involved.”

Tonix Pharmaceuticals began as a research and development facility

located in Frederick, Maryland and recently opened the doors on a new process development facility located just south of Boston. Lederman said the new facility in Hamilton will be integrated with those. He said that products are invented in Maryland, the processes are worked out in Bos ton and the new facility in Hamilton will produce them.

“The idea here is that we can supply the world when this is fully realized,” said Lederman. He said Tonix is a relatively small compa ny with 100 employees “but we see ourselves as part of a bigger mission.” Lederman said one of the things they are addressing is that there really is a dearth of domestic manufacturing in the U.S. He said that became very clear during the COVID pandemic.

“When the borders were shut and consequently the supply chains dried up, so many of the things you could do before the pandemic like e-mail China, e-mail India or even try to e-mail Canada, nothing was happen ing and we realized that it’s a national problem,” said Lederman.

“For too long jobs and manufac turing have been shipped overseas. America invents and we are going to have other people make it for us. But that’s not going to work in the future as we have all seen. In our small way we really see ourselves as part of a great big movement to bring busi ness, especially bio-business, back to the United States.” Lederman said that vaccine research and production was critical to the country’s bio-se curity and bio-defense. “We are glad to be part of it and glad to be part of what’s going on in the Bitterroot,” he said. “There’s a wonderful emergence

of a bio-tech corridor from Missoula to here.”

County Commissioner Dan Huls called it another step in the evolution of the economy here in the Bitterroot Valley. “We started out in the 1880s with timber for the miners in Butte and then dairy came in,” said Huls. “Agricul ture always has been a driving force… In 1923, the Cheese factory in Corvallis manufactured more cheese than any other dairy in the entire United States. The sug ar beet came after that and the cattle industry. Now we are evolving now into a new era. We are happy to have Tonix.”

Dr. Marshall Bloom, Director of Scientif ic Research at Rocky Mountain Labs, said, “I think you could sum up the medical issue as ‘an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure’ and nowhere is that dic tum more accurate than in the field of infectious diseases. In particular though, with vaccines we might say ‘a millili ter or a cc of prevention is worth a pound of cure’. And we have seen that over and over again over the first 100 years in the form of devel opment of vaccines, many of which were developed in the state

of Montana.” He said RML scientists have worked on vaccines against Rocky Mountain Spotted Fe ver, Q Fever, Yellow Fever, Ebola virus, Zinka Virus, SARS Coro na type to Covid 19 and Monkey Pox. “So it is with great interest that I and my colleagues welcome an other vaccine business to the Bitterroot Valley and I think it fits right in line with what Commissioner Huls said about a new area of growth in our economy, I look forward to Tonix developing their plant here and to perhaps some fu ture collaboration with our lab,” said Bloom.

Tom Korst, Super intendent of Hamilton School District, said that he thought the development would benefit the school dis trict greatly, bringing more job opportunities as well as potential for collaborating with the students.

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Democrat Max Baucus served as U.S. Senator from 1978 to 2014, making him the longest serving Senator in Montana history. Baucus was instrumental in establishing facilities at Rocky Mountain Laboratory and the RCEDA in Hamilton and was in attendance at last week’s signing of an agreement between the City of Hamilton and Tonix Phar maceuticals that paves the way for construction of a new vaccine production fa cility on Old Corvallis Road.

Photo by Michael Howell.

Bob Whalen, Chair man of the RCEDA Board, said, “Who couldn’t support an industry that is in volved in helping with human diseases and relief of suffering.” He welcomed Tonix and told Ledeman that he made a good choice in coming to our “diverse community.”

“We have mountain bikers, fishermen, bird watchers, we support the arts,” aid Whalen.

Senator Max Baucus said, “This is another example of how lucky we are to be Montan ans. That’s why this county’s developed so well.”

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tax reform that encourages economic development and protects property owners.

-Supports an Article V convention of states to propose constitutional amendments requiring a balanced federal budget and term limits.

-Opposes anti-constitutional calls for “nullification” of federal law.

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- Chairs the joint education appropriations committee.

- Champions increasing career and technical education opportunities.

- Serves on a workgroup crafting commonsense election reforms.

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retired U.S. Army colonel

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West Point professor

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It’s a done deal! The City of Hamilton and Tonix Pharmaceuticals signed an agreement last week that will kick start the construction of a new BSL-2 lab for production of vaccines. Attending the signing ceremony were, left to right: Hamilton School Disrict Super intendent Tom Korst, Director of Scientific Research at Rocky Mountain Laboratory Dr. Marshall Bloom, Hamilton Mayor Dominic Farrenkopf, Tonix Pharmaceuticals CEO Seth Lederman, Ravalli County Commissioner Dan Huls, and Board Chair of the Ravalli County Economic Development Authority Bob Whalen. Photo by Michael Howell.

part of heart of community

by Nathan Boddy

Chapter One Book Store in downtown Hamilton is not only located within the heart of Hamilton, but it takes that role seriously in a metaphori cal sense as well.

“I always kind of wanted to own a downtown business and be part of the community in that way,” says Katrina Men drey, the most recent member of the three-person owner ship team. Along with Marisa Neyenhuis and Mara Luther, the trio stays busy doing much more than operating the long standing Hamilton bookstore.

Mendrey says that people come into Chapter One look ing for information that goes well beyond books. “I think that we, as owners, really do try to provide a service to our community with information. We really enjoy being that resource in our community.”

As evidence of their ongo ing involvement in the community, Mendrey points to some of the proj ects that Chapter One has undertaken this year. For example, their ‘Blind Date with A Book’ program which encourages people to select a book (wrapped in paper with only clues about what it may be) in order to try something new. The customer is en couraged to leave a donation of their choosing, 100% of which is donated to a selected non-profit. For the month of October, Chapter One Books has chosen SAFE to receive those funds.

Chapter One also organizes a wide variety of book clubs, ranging from the Bitterroot Climate Action Group, to the Montana Racial Equity Proj ect. A new addition to the lineup of groups is the ‘Cook+Book’ Club, which will allow for a “potluck-style gathering” for participants to discuss recipes and stories. The first gathering will be on Wednesday, Novem ber 9th at 6 p.m. and will center on the book “Roads to Rome” by au thor Jarrett Wisley, and co-author Paulo Vitaletti.

In addition to book clubs, Chap ter One also enjoys arranging visits from featured authors, such as a visit by author Michael Punke on Friday, November 4th at 6 p.m. at the Rav alli County Museum. Punke’s most recent novel “Ridgeline” adds to his collection of historical books which include “The Revenant” and “Fire and Brimstone.” Also in November, author DJ Lee will be discussing her book, “Remote,” which is a true story and delves into a family’s history unfolding within the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Lee’s visit will take place at Chapter One Books on Tuesday, November 15th at 6 p.m.

With so much going on, it’s no surprise that the folks at Chapter One

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find themselves playing a role as clearinghouse for informa tion that goes beyond their own business. Everything from social services to local events tend to be within their wheel house. Mendrey, who is a soil scientist by training, adds that being part of the ownership of Chapter One requires a defi nite amount of malleability, but that she enjoys the task.

“Bookstores are so general that we can link people with resources and information,” she says. “We try to give back to our community.”

Lone Rock Community!

Marcia Bloom

has retired after 26 years at Lone Rock School!

She will be honored at a retirement luncheon on Saturday, October 29 from 11am to 2pm in the Multi-Purpose Room Lunch - Dessert - Fun

Marcia is an awesome, kind, stu dent and family centered individual, and loved by everyone here at Lone Rock!

Please join us to celebrate Marcia!

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Katrina Mendrey and Marisa Neyenhuis at a display of some of the upcoming events spon sored by Chapter One Book Store. Photo by Nathan Boddy.

Research chronicles forest recovery after 2017 fire season

by Raequel Roberts UM News Service

For a researcher who studies wildfire, University of Montana graduate student Kyra ClarkWolf couldn’t have had better timing.

Clark-Wolf arrived in Mis soula to start her graduate stud ies on the impacts of wildfires on forests at the W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conserva tion on July 4, 2017. Eleven days later, a lightning strike sparked the Lolo Peak Fire just south of the city, burning nearly 54,000 acres and leaving lasting and indelible images among Missou lians of dense smoke and flames visible from town.

The impacts of that fire on the forest, as well as the Sunrise Fire burning at the same time west of Missoula, would go on to be central to Clark-Wolf’s doctoral work. Her findings are shared in two papers, the sec ond recently published in Forest Ecology and Management, a leading journal in her field.

“I was curious once the smoke cleared up what was going on in the forest and what the fires left behind,” she said, “and how the effects of ongoing climate change could change forest recovery.”

With support from her adviser, Philip Higuera, professor and direc tor of UM’s PaleoEcology and Fire Ecology Lab, and Kim Davis, a UM research scientist, Clark-Wolf applied for $25,000 in research funding from

the federal Joint Fire Science Program and proposed to study how burned landscapes find life again.

She chose the Lolo Peak and Sun rise fires for the very practical reason that both were close by, and for the next three years her research would require endless road trips, arduous hikes and hours spent counting tiny tree seedlings and measuring their

growth.

Her laboratories were 69 field plots staked out at mountain locations far from roads and recreational sites. Her subjects were the thousands of tiny tree seedlings she marked and fol lowed over the years. She also tracked the “micro-site” conditions where those seedlings grew.

“We wanted to see how warm and dry it gets right at the ground surface, and what was happening with the soils,” she said of her research, which included help from a number of un dergraduate students. “Soil conditions are important because that’s where plants get moisture and nutrients like nitrogen.”

Her studies found thousands of seedlings growing after the fires, especially at sites with cooler, damper conditions – often found in the shade of the dead trees and upper canopy, as well as on the north side of mountains with higher elevations and more un dergrowth. She found fewer seedlings

at sites with less shade and drier, hotter conditions.

In the case of the Lolo Peak and Sunrise fires, moderate temperatures and ample rain in the years since the fires helped seedlings get started and survive in the burned areas, but as climate change continues, Clark-Wolf said, weather conditions might not be so favorable for young seedlings in the future.

“This study offers a bit of good news,” said Higuera. “It wasn’t a given to find so many seedlings after these wildfires. Across the West, there is a trend toward fewer seedlings growing after wildfires, in part because of warmer and drier summers. Fortunately, these forests seem to be regenerating much like they have in the past, at least for now.”

The results from ClarkWolf’s study suggest steps forest managers might take to promote regrowth, such as leaving burned trees standing. Her findings can also help replanting efforts to focus on areas where its most needed, includ ing those locations far from potential seed sources.

“Burnt trees all over the place look ugly to many people,” she said, “but they serve important functions. One is providing shading; another is attract ing wood boring beetles, which bring in birds like woodpeckers.”

Burnt trees can also be a source for seeds.

“Lodgepole pine cones stay up in the canopy, sealed up with resin, and when fire comes through it melts that resin and releases seeds. So even if the tree dies, its seeds are released for the next generation,” she said. “It’s just a sea of seedlings up there now.”

“It’s a nice reminder that while severe fires are impactful for people,” Clark-Wolf said, “these forests have been experiencing fires for thousands of years and at least for now they are pretty good at coming back.”

UM graduate student Kyra Clark-Wolf has published two research papers on tree regeneration follow ing wildfires.

ZONING: city council will now decide

within a three block radius of the parcel there are already, “a group home, a sixunit apartment building, a twenty-unit apartment complex, and a mobile home park. So, our eight unit apartment building definitely fits the core neigh borhood.” Pigman also pointed out the proximity of the parcel to primary em ployers within the City of Hamilton, and how higher density in that area would bolster the city’s stated growth plan.

Several others took to the micro phone to state their opposition to the rezoning, with concerns again focus ing on increased traffic and a fear of a ‘domino effect’ wherein parcels within the core of Hamilton’s residential areas would flip from single family dwellings to higher density developments. Roch Turner, Commission Chair, closed the

public hearing portion of the meeting at 5:45, reminding the public that the Commission’s obligation was to make a recommendation to the City Council, who would have ultimate say on the rezoning request.

Commission member and Ward 3 representative to the City Council, Jenny West, made the motion that proved successful. In her motion, she proposed alterations to the staff findings of the proposed rezoning. In its essence, West’s motion was that the proposed rezoning was not compatible with the surrounding land uses, and would not be the most appropriate scale for devel opment on the parcel.

The rezoning request will now be heard by the Hamilton City Council on Tuesday, November 1st at 7 p.m.

DRUGS: case part of PSN program

The government also alleged that Whittecar was convicted of three federal felonies in 2009 and was prohibited from possessing firearms.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim othy J. Racicot and Assistant U.S. Attorney Karla E. Painter are prosecut ing the case, which was investigated by the DEA, Minnesota State Patrol, West Central Minnesota Drug and Violent Crime Task Force and Missoula County Sheriff’s Office.

This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bring

ing together all levels of law enforce ment and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. On May 26, 2021, the Department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our commu nities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement pri orities, and measuring the results.

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FUELS: county hopes to make a difference in high fire hazard areas

Reduction Project was a non-commercial thinning project done by hand lopping and scattering as well as hand stacking piles in thickly vege tated areas where there was too much simply to scatter and burn safely. In those areas, according to Forest Service Silviculturist

Cheri Hartless who designed the thinning project, the piles will be burnt before the whole area is burned again in preparation for future logging in the area.

According to Hartless, the Forest Service began research ing potential fuel reduction in the area stretching from the West Fork boundary all the way to Tin Cup Creek back in 2003. She said a lot of commer cial thinning was conducted across the area, but a lot of the non-commercial thinning was not completed. This unit was one that was not treated and was so heavily overgrown that there was simply too much ladder fuels to even begin a prescribed fire which usually precedes a commercial thinning project. As a result, they went in and piled slash by hand.

“That makes this sort of a middle treatment in the process,” said Hartless. “We will burn the piles and then come back and do a full under burn before coming in and doing the required commercial thinning.”

The commercial thinning is designed to take the forest back to a Ponderosa Pine dominated forest, but not a monoculture, according to Hartless. She said historically mature Ponderosa Pine forests were covered about 80% in Ponder osa Pine and about 20% in Douglas Fir. Due to decades of fire suppression on the forest, however, the ratio has reversed itself. She said that Ponderosa Pines

need disturbance, like wildland fires, to proliferate, but Douglas Fir trees do well in undisturbed soils. As a result, over years, the ratio has been flipped on its head so the forest is made up of only 20% Ponderosa Pine and about 80% Douglas Fir.

Commissioner Burrows said he was happy to be working together with the Forest Service on this type of project. He said it has been a frustrating situation as high hazard areas for wild fires are identified, analyzed and re-analyzed, and then litigated and before any action can be taken the forest burns up.

“These people fearful of large scale landscape projects like that proposed on the Bitterroot Front need to look at the big picture,” said Burrows. “If you consider the wilderness areas and the wilderness study areas, it’s just a pretty small fraction of the forest that we can do things on. A small fraction of the area has been identified as high fire hazard and it is important to do something about it,” he said. “I think it’s urgent that we increase the pace and scale of work. I think it’s urgent for the protection of private and public lands that we get this work done. I’d like to see this project on steroids basically. Just keep going and get work done. That’s our interest from the County level.”

Burrows said it would help if the pay related to pro-active projects like this were equal to the pay given out for emergency suppression efforts.

BNF Supervisor Matthew Anderson said that the Forest Service was very happy to have the help and was working hard on making this paradigm shift in forest management and making some changes in the funding mechanisms that could help make these kinds of cooperative projects feasible.

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Ravalli County Commissioner Jeff Burrows looks on as County Forester Andrew Amidon discuss es the results of the first County administered thinning project on the Bitterroot National Forest up the West Fork. Photo by Michael Howell.

impacted. LR-131 crim inalizes doctors who provide appropriate, compassionate care to families with infants born with non-life sus taining birth defects or born too early to survive.

Sapphire Community Health Board of Direc tors strongly opposes efforts to criminalize physicians and the subsequent intrusion into the provider-patient relationship.

Sapphire Community Health Board of Directors: J. William (Bill) Pe ters, MD Judy Griffin, RN Jim Morton Dixie Stark

The price of expediency

Is our America invin cible? We may soon get the answer.

Several hundred delusional candidates are running for offices throughout the country in the mid-term elec tions. They have every right to run and to be as irrational as they want. But, if, in the upcoming election, we lose the separation of powers be tween the three govern ment powers, we will no longer have our Democ racy. If the extremists win the election, our Democracy will collapse. Without change Amer ica will continue to roil in fear. America is not indestructible.

Each potential voter has the duty and obli gation to vote. Voting is the single-most import

ant act to make Democ racy work.

Using Nazi, Hitlerian techniques of mind con trol and manipulation, distorting political forces sweep America seeking to impose an anti-Se mitic, anti-minority, anti-LGBTQ, hate-based autocratic theocracy based in fundamentalist and extremist Christian religiosity. They are winning.

Observe Iran and Russia and Burkina Faso as examples of current government implosions as a consequence of extremist government factions. It is happening right here in Montana.

This pernicious movement fuels itself appearing like road flares, springing from the offensive phenome non that a statement re peated loud enough and long enough, even in the face of its untruth — a

lie — becomes believed as truth and attracts supplicants. Backed by vast resources, it is a cult phenomenon.

It will take decades to correct the destruction and damage already done.

But this is not new. Eradicating Jews and many others in the name of Christianity, the Crusades when, during the 11th to 16th century, were armies of the Catholic Church that rampaged Europe attempting to create a Catholic world — killing opponents to their reli gious views.

Expungement of different opinion is what the extremist religious right now accomplishes in America. America faces forces in a major social, demographic, and religious revolution and upheaval antithetical to the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the First Amendment … and the Constitution. Extremist factions are expunging and blurring the lines between the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches of government set forth in the Consti tution.

Without dramatic opposition on November 8th, we, all of us, me, you, all of us, will, for an indeterminate future, metamorphose what the Constitutional framers foresaw as America the

Beautiful, our land of the free, home of the brave, with equal justice and opportunity for all … into … what? White, Christian irrational extremism?

This movement was in motion well before the recent Dobbs de cision, shutting down abortion rights. It is time to see what is hap pening as morally and ethically and religiously pernicious. Like Saudi Arabia and other coun tries, extremist forces in America seek to impose minority-held religious values as the law of the land.

On Tuesday, No vember 8, 2022, all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested.

Thirty-nine state and territorial gubernatorial elections, as well as nu merous other state and local elections, will be contested. This will be the first election affected by the redistricting that follows the 2020 census.

There are 39 gubernato rial seats up for grabs in 36 states and 3 territo ries.

The redistricting originates in extremist political religiosity and is anti-Semitic, bigoted and prejudiced against people of color, and is hate centered, direct ed at creating a white nation for Christian people: anti-Semitic, an ti-minority, anti-immi

grant, anti-economically disadvantaged.

Niccolò Machiavelli in late 1513 noted that a regime can govern only with the consent of the governed. It is that pushback against being ruled autocratically that rises up in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, and in America.

January 6,th the Dobbs abortion decision, interfering with voting rights, are a direct ty rannical assault on Jews and other minorities. This religious manipula tion and persecution led the Pilgrims to America in 1605.

If you want our form of government — one person, one vote — then you have to believe that those with the most votes win and we accept election losses. And if you believe in liberty and justice for all, then all means everybody.

“It ain’t justice if it ain’t equal,” my friend and mentor, civil rights lawyer Lenny Schroeter taught. If you believe in religious freedom as conveyed in the Consti tution and elaborated by the First Amendment, that means everybody gets religious freedom.

Voter suppression, removing access to in formation, book burn ing, relocating people for political gains are tech niques the Third Reich used as it rose to power to install Hitler in 1933. These are techniques de ployed in America now.

If you believe in democracy, dissenters are not enemies. A de mocracy is a collection of people with differing views. People should be able to be whom they want to be. How is soci ety harmed when people become themselves? Can’t we love the way we want? Unisex bathrooms seem to work out in many countries.

A one belief system is anti-America. The US Supreme Court can’t function as the enforce ment arm of a political party. For our Democra cy to work, people have to trust the system, trust the agencies, and believe that they will be treated evenly and fairly.

Over 500 election deniers seek political office. Actively incit ing violence is no way for this Democracy to continue. A society built upon expediency will crumble. If character and integrity do not matter, what does? Vote for kindness and equali ty and religious freedom for all.

To heal, America needs trials for perpetra tors. … all of them.

Elliott Oppenheim Florence

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American Legion Auxiliary Stevensville Unit 94 president Margi Leininger presents a Certificate of Appreciation to Casey Gann, Super 1 Foods assistant manager, for all the support and donations that Super 1 Foods in Stevensville has given to the Auxiliary. Gann accepted on behelf of Mark Dunville, manager.

When hunting season meets

My grandson Nehi and I have something of a young Patrick MacMa nus and Rancid Crabtree relationship. Those of you who’ve read MacManus get the idea; those of you who haven’t, well, that’s OK for now but maybe you should.

In his hilar ious stories the young Patrick idolized the less-thansavory old woodsman and soaked up a lot of his earthly wis dom – good and bad. While I haven’t cor rupted Nehi too badly thus far and I bathe more frequent ly than Rancid was said to, there are some parallels.

Chuck Stranahan

He comes to me for advice on such things as which flies to tie, how to repair a broken fly rod, bullet weights, line weights, draw weights, and recently he wanted to know what to do with the hide of a critter he’d just dispatched.

This year he plans on arrowing an elk plus another deer.

So this column is for him - in case he wasn’t taking notes when we spoke on the phone, and for anybody else unfamiliar with the task of treating an animal hide.

Curing a hide is easy

If you’re a fly tyer, and somebody offers you a hide this hunting season, take it. And don’t be intimidated at the task of curing it - it’s not that hard.

Here’s what to do:

Stretch the hide, flesh side up, on a sheet of plywood or particle board, starting at the bottom of the hide and stretching toward the top. 1 ½” carpet tacks work just fine for this chore. Start at the tail, and tack alternate sides as you work your way out. Leave about ½” showing on the tacks – you have to remove them later.

Space the tacks so the hide won’t roll up between the tacks. This dis tance can vary – according to where you’re tacking. Don’t hesitate to use

a sharp knife to trim as needed.

Once the hide is tacked out, continue with the knife to remove any muscle and fat tissue that you reasonably can.

That usually involves what I call the shiver muscles at tached to the middle back of the hide, and fat around the edg es. There might be more, and as you remove it, be careful not to poke holes in the hide. When it gets to the point that you’re wor ried about that, you’re done. Put the knife away.

When the hide is stretched, I like to cover it with a 50/50 mixture of any kind of coarse salt and borax. Ice cream salt, pool salt, sidewalk or road salt will do. You’re not going to eat the hide.

The salt goes on first, gets spread evenly, then the borax gets spilled on and worked between the salt crystals. When the outside of this mixture gets damp, as moisture is being drawn from the hide, add more salt. Tacking and salting the hide takes about an hour.

Once the hide is salted

Usually I’ll let the hide cure all win ter. In the spring, I’ll have a hide that is thin and workable; it doesn’t need to be tanned for fly tying purposes.

Then I’ll untack it and wash it. I’ll turn it over, hair-side-up in the drive way, and get after it with a nozzle on the garden hose. When it’s thoroughly wet (and it’s amazing what comes out of a “clean” hide with water pressure) I’ll mix up a batch of grease-cutting dish detergent in a bucket and spill it over the hide. Then I’ll gently sham poo and work the detergent into the hide to dislodge any remaining dirt

before hitting it again with the hose. After that I’ll take a hair brush and even out the hair. Cleaning the fin ished hide takes about an hour. It isn’t that bad.

When it’s dry, the hide will be malleable and the hair will be clean and ready for fly tying. I’ll dry the hair side first, then carefully turn it fleshside-up to dry the skin side.

In the case of elk hide, I’ll quarter it, and may cut deer hides in half. Those big chunks are easy to store in the garage and not too ungainly.

I cut the hides into smaller pieces as I need them before bringing them into Jan’s house. I hope Nehi does the same. I don’t want him to fall out of his mother’s good graces. So far, she’s grate fully accepted the accu mulating collection of furs, feathers, and other

Grandpa Chuck watches Nehi tie salmonfly with locally harvested elk hair.

Approx. 4000 sq. ft. 4BR, 3BA log home all updated in 2005, has newer matching double garage with workout room, and bath room, could be used for guest room. Property is all fenced and crossfenced with irrigation for the 40-acre parcel. Comes with complete irrigation system (pump and pipes), has water rights, and large year round pond. Live stream and developed spring on property. Nice fruit trees and mature landscaping. Approx. 1/2 mile to USFS trailhead with unlimited hiking. Paved road all the way from U.S. 93 to property. Area is much the same as the 1970’s. Included are most furnishings in the house,

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In the fall of 1986, Paul Newman sat down with “a dear friend” and they began a series of recordings of Newman’s thoughts on his life. Volunteers and family made transcripts and the project grew, then disappeared when he died in 2008.

In 2019, it was found, and the family decided “to finish what was started.”

It didn’t help that he was scrawny as a teen, and was obsessed with girls. That pre occupation continued when he was drafted and entered the Navy. He came home from World War II with romantic ex perience, and immediately enrolled at a non-coed col lege, which he says was a mistake. It reignited his obsession with women.

It was there that he auditioned for a part in a play, and discov ered acting.

Fame, for New man, was “a dream and a night mare at the same time.” He admired the steely pro fessionalism of Elizabeth Taylor; loved being a parent, but seemed slightly baffled by it; drank too much, and he knew it. And, surprisingly, he said, “I never enjoyed acting.”

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‘Big Medicine’ repatriated to CSK tribes

Big Medicine, the sacred white bison on display at the Montana Historical Society in Helena, is being repatriated to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes at their re quest.

The MTHS Board of Trustees vot ed unanimously Thursday to return Big Medicine to his homeland based on his cultural and spir itual significance to the Tribes.

“Big Medicine rep resents the past that has carried forward to the present and the work yet to be done to protect our identity, culture, and well-being into the future,” CSKT Tribal Chairman Tom Mc Donald had written in his repatriation request.

“We are deeply appreciative,” he said after the MTHS trust ees’ vote, then paused a minute to regain his composure. “You can see it is emotional. We will treat this animal with the respect it deserves. We thank you and look forward to partnerships with the (historical) society and mu seum in the future. Thank you, from the bottom of our hearts.”

The white bison known as Big Medicine was raised on the National Bison Range in the Flathead and died in 1959. Former MTHS Direc tor K. Ross Toole had contacted the bison range superintendent in 1953 requesting his hide be transferred to MTHS upon the animal’s death, and it has been on display since 1961 in a climate-controlled environment.

Earlier this year, the tribe for mally asked that he be returned, noting that Big Medicine is revered for his healing and protective powers, and deep spiritual lessons

conveyed in ceremonies and songs.

“It isn’t just about the history,” said Rick Eneas, CSKT executive officer. “As a people, the Salish and Kootenai are reclaiming our language and culture. One aspect of what Big Medicine symbolizes is what it looks like to hold on to the past and look to the future.

“… We as a people are at a cross roads and have gone through some significant challenges and lost a lot, but are creating a lot in the valley for the young tribal members who don’t have a connection. A symbol like this allows us to feel proud of who we are and will help us under stand who we can be in the future.”

MTHS Director Molly Kruck enberg said the historical society is pleased to see Big Medicine’s ownership transferred to the Con

federated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The MTHS will retain physical possession of Big Medicine until the Tribes have a safe environment in which he can be displayed, which is expected to take about two years.

“This is not a repatriation request under the Native American Graves Protection and Repa triation Act; instead, this decision comes from discussions made on a govern ment-to-government basis,” Kruckenberg said. “The Montana Historical Soci ety regularly seeks advice and informa tion from Montana’s Tribes, and this transfer of ownership reflects that positive relationship.”

Big Medicine, the sacred white bison on display at the Montana Historical Society in Helena, is being repatri ated to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes at their request.

Five things to know about Montana’s ‘Born Alive’ ballot initiative

the protection of all life is avail able,” Regier said while introduc ing the bill in January 2021.

The bill is very similar to model legislation created by Americans United for Life in 2018 as a template for state lawmak ers nationwide. So far, 18 states have provisions along those lines, and more are considering them, according to the group. Its president and CEO, Catherine Glenn Foster, testified in support of Montana’s bill during the 2021 legislative session.

131 “is designed to look like an anti-abortion measure, but it has no relevance” to her clinic, she said. “There would never be an occasion in my practice where there would be an infant born alive,” Weems said.

4. If clinics that provide abortions won’t be affected, who will?

The initiative also covers any natural birth, induced labor, or cesarean section.

by Matt Volz Kaiser Health News

Montana voters will decide Nov. 8 whether to approve a ballot initiative declaring that an embryo or fetus is a legal person with a right to medical care if it survives an abortion or delivery. The measure would impose se vere penalties on health workers who don’t provide that care.

Legislative Referendum 131 was approved for next month’s election by state lawmakers in 2021, more than a year before the U.S. Supreme Court removed federal protections for abortion in June.

Abortion remains legal in Montana because of a 1999 state Supreme Court ruling that pro tects it under the state constitu tion’s right-of-privacy provision. Three laws passed by the Repub lican-led legislature in 2021 to re strict abortion have been blocked while a legal challenge proceeds, arguing that they violate the con stitutional provision.

But lawmakers sent LR-131 di rectly to voters to decide whether it should become law.

Here are five key things to know about the ballot measure:

1. What would the initia tive do?

LR-131 would impose crimi nal penalties of up to 20 years in prison and up to a $50,000 fine on any health care worker who doesn’t try to save a “born-alive infant.” That term is defined as a legal person who breathes, has a heartbeat, or has voluntary mus cle movement after an abortion or delivery.

The measure would require health care providers to “take medically appropriate and reasonable actions” to keep the fetus or infant alive, but it doesn’t define or give examples of such actions. The health care workers liable under the initiative would be doctors and nurses but also any “individual who may be asked to participate in any way in a health care service or procedure.”

The initiative includes a man datory reporting requirement, which means that any employee or volunteer at a medical facility who is aware of a violation must report it to authorities.

2. Where did the initiative come from?

House Bill 167, the 2021 legis lation that authorized the referen dum, was sponsored by state Rep. Matt Regier (R-Kalispell), chair of the panel that oversees the state Department of Public Health and Human Services’ budget.

“We need to make it abun dantly clear that here in Montana,

The Montana measure does not include a provision in the model legislation that gives an infant’s parents the right to refuse medical intervention if the treat ment isn’t necessary to save the infant’s life, would only tempo rarily prolong the infant’s death, or carries risks that outweigh the potential benefits to the infant.

The Montana measure also excludes a clause in the model legislation that exempts parents and guardians from criminal and civil liability. The Montana initiative doesn’t address parental liability.

Bradley Kehr, Americans United for Life’s policy counsel, described the ballot initiative as “well tailored to the needs of Montana.”

3. What does the initiative have to do with abortion?

Regier’s bill says the purpose of the referendum is to protect in fants who have survived abortions from being denied medical care and being left to die.

The measure’s passage would move the Family Research Coun cil’s classification of Montana’s “born-alive” protections from “weak” to “strong” compared with the rest of the nation, according to Connor Semelsberger, direc tor of federal affairs for life and human dignity for the nonprofit organization, which advocates for anti-abortion measures.

Montana is not among the nine states that require health providers to report when an infant is born alive during an abortion. The Family Research Council lists the states that do as Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Indi ana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Instances of fetuses surviving abortions are very rare. In Minne sota, which the Family Research Council points to as having the strongest protections in the U.S., five of the 10,136 abortions per formed in 2021 resulted in a live birth, according to a state health department report. None of the five survived.

The number of abortions in which a fetus could survive is small, too: The point at which a fetus can survive outside the womb is generally considered to be after 22 weeks of pregnancy, and about 1% of all abortions in the U.S. happen at or after 21 weeks.

The leaders of two Montana clinics that provide abortions said the initiative’s passage would not affect their operations, as Montana law restricts performing abortions after a fetus is viable. The law does not define viability.

Nicole Smith, executive director of Blue Mountain Clinic in Missoula, said her clinic provides dila tion-and-evacu ation abortions that would not result in a live birth. “We do not provide obstetric or labor-and-de livery care,” she said, adding that she would refer a patient who needed that kind of care to someone who specializes in high-risk preg nancies.

Helen Weems, director of All Families Healthcare in Whitefish, said her clinic does not perform abortions after 12 weeks. LR-

That could present obste tricians and gynecologists with an ethical dilemma of having to choose between their obligation to provide the best available med ical care to their patients or the potential of facing legal penalties, according to a position paper by the American College of Obstetri cians and Gynecologists opposing the Montana measure.

The organization said LR131 could require an aggressive course of treatment in extremely complex and often tragic medical situations. It opposes the measure as government interference in the patient-physician relationship that would impose additional trauma on families.

Smith said the initiative would apply to miscarriages and to hos pital deliveries in cases when par ents know their child won’t live but want to complete the birth for a chance to hold the baby and say goodbye.

Opponents of the ballot initia tive use the example of an early labor and delivery at 20 weeks. They say that rather than allowing the family to hold, say goodbye to, or baptize the baby before it dies, the measure would require health care workers to remove it in an attempt to save its life.

A study of nearly 5,000 infants born before 27 weeks of gestation found that all 129 infants who were born before 22 weeks and were included in the study died. Two received active medical treat ment. Of those born in the 22nd week, 5% survived. Most of the 24 hospitals in the study provided treatment to all infants born at 25 or 26 weeks. Those born at week 26 had an overall survival rate of about 81%, and 59% survived without moderate or severe im pairment.

5. What does existing fed eral and state law say? Under Montana law, it’s already a felony to purposely, knowingly, or negligently cause the death of a viable, premature infant. A federal law passed in 2002 says a person includes “ev ery infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development.” It de fines “born alive” as evidence of a heartbeat, breathing, or voluntary muscle movements, but does not include any additional provisions.

Opponents of the Montana measure point to those laws as evidence that LR-131 is unneces sary and is instead meant to drive conservative voter turnout. “This cruelty is being forced on already grieving families for the cold, calculated political gain of ex treme-right politicians,” Weems said.

Regier, the legislator whose bill authorized the referendum, said current Montana law does not go far enough to protect infants.

Semelsberger, of the Family Research Council, said the same about the federal law and that it has lacked enforcement. The organization supports a federal bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) that would add requirements to save the life of an infant, though with up to five years of maximum prison time, instead of the 20 years in Mon tana’s measure.

KHN (Kaiser Health News) is a national newsroom that pro duces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Pol icy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.

A ballot measure that seeks to pro tect infants follow ing failed abortions would impose stiff penalties on health care providers in Montana

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PUBLIC OPPORTUNITY TO PROTEST TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP AND LO CATION OF MONTANA ALL-ALCOHOLIC BEV ERAGES LICENSE

FORT OWEN ENTERPRIS ES, LLC (Nathan Bean and Lindsy Bean, Owner(s)) has applied to transfer Montana All-Alcoholic Beverages License No. 13-8706480-001 to be operated at FORT OWEN INN, 3854 Us Highway 93 N, Stevensville, Ravalli County. The public may protest this license transfer in accordance with the law.

Who can protest this transfer? Protests will be accept ed from residents of the county of the proposed location Ravalli County, residents of adjoining Montana counties, and residents of adjoining counties in another state if the criteria in 16-4-207(4) (d), Montana Code Annotated (MCA), are met.

What information must be included? Protest letters must be legible and contain (1) the protestor’s full name, mailing address, and street address; (2) the license number 13-870-6480001 and the applicant’s name FORT OWEN ENTERPRISES, LLC; (3) an indication that the letter is intended as a protest; (4) a description of the grounds for protesting; and (5) the protestor’s signature. A letter with multiple signatures will be considered one protest letter.

What are valid protest grounds? The protest may be based on the applicant’s qualifications listed in 16-4-401, MCA, or the grounds for denial of an application in 16-4-405, MCA. Examples of valid protest grounds include: (1) the applicant is unlikely to operate the estab lishment in compliance with the law; (2) the proposed location cannot be properly policed by local authorities; and (3) the welfare of the people in the vicinity of the proposed location will be adversely and seriously affected.

How are protests submitted? Protests must be postmarked to the Department of Revenue, Office of Dispute Resolution, P.O. Box 5805, Helena, Montana 59604-

5805 on or before November 5, 2022.

What happens if the transfer is protested? Depending on the number of protests and the protest grounds, a public hearing will be held in Helena or Stevensville. All valid protestors will be notified of the hearing’s time, date and loca tion. Hearings typically are sched uled within 90 days. A protester’s hearing testimony is limited to the grounds in the protester’s letter.

Following the hearing, the Depart ment of Revenue will notify the public whether the license transfer is approved or denied.

How can additional informa tion be obtained? The cited MCA statutes are online at leg.mt.gov/bills/mca_toc/.

Questions may be directed to Bre anna Gill, Compliance Specialist for the Department of Revenue’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Division, at 444-0710 or Breanna. Gill@mt.gov. BS 10-26, 11-2-22.

LEGAL NOTICE

The following is the ballot statement of an amendment to the Montana Constitution to be submitted to the voters of the state of Montana at the November 8, 2022 General Election. The text below is being published per the require ment of 13-27-311(2) MCA, by Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen.

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 48 AN AMENDMENT TO THE CON STITUTION PROPOSED BY THE LEGISLATURE AN ACT SUBMITTING TO THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF MONTANA AN AMEND MENT TO ARTICLE II, SECTION 11, OF THE MONTANA CONSTITUTION TO EXPLICITLY INCLUDE ELECTRONIC DATA AND COMMUNICATIONS IN SEARCH AND SEIZURE PRO TECTIONS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA: C-48 is a constitutional amendment to amend Article II, section 11 of the Montana Consti tution to

specifically protect electronic data and communications from unreasonable search and seizures.

[] YES on Constitutional Amendment C-48

[] NO on Constitutional Amendment C-48 BS 10-26, 11-2-22.

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Attorney for Personal Repre sentative

MONTANA TWEN TY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY

In Re: The Estate of: BRIAN JOSEPH ADAMS, Deceased.

Cause No.: DP-22-111

Howard F. Recht District Court Judge

NOTICE TO CREDI TORS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representa tive of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to BARTON J. ADAMS, the Personal Representative, to c/o Tanko Law Office, 392 – 1st Avenue E.N., Ka lispell, MT 59901, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 9th day of Sep tember, 2022.

/s/ Barton J. Adams BARTON J. ADAMS, Person al Representative

Submitted by: TANKO LAW OFFICE

/s/ Brian C. Tanko BRIAN C. TANKO, ESQ. Attorney for Personal Repre sentative BS 10-26, 11-2, 11-9-22.

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Weather History

Oct. 26, 1988 - Thunderstorms moving out of northern Texas spawned five tornadoes in Louisiana during the morning hours. The thunderstorms also produced wind gusts to 75 mph at Jennings, La. A falling tree near Coushatta killed the driver of a vehicle.

Oct. 27, 1962 - An early season winter storm over New England blanketed northern Maine with seven to 16 inches of snow and southeastern New England with up to three inches of snow. Worcester, Mass. received a record 4.7 inches of snow.

Detailed Local Forecast

Today we will see mostly cloudy skies with a 65% chance of scattered snow, high temperature of 43°, humidity of 66%. Southwest wind 2 to 6 mph. Snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. The record high temperature for today is 69° set in 1907. Expect mostly cloudy skies tonight with a 65% chance of scattered snow, overnight low of 19°. Southwest wind 3 to 6 mph. The wind chill for tonight could reach 18°. The record low for tonight is -5° set in 2020.

Peak Fishing/Hunting Times This Week

Peak Times

Day AM PM

Wed1:04-3:041:31-3:31

Thu1:58-3:582:27-4:27

Fri2:57-4:573:27-5:27 Sat3:58-5:584:30-6:30

Day AM PM Sun5:02-7:025:33-7:33 Mon6:03-8:036:33-8:33

Sun/Moon Chart This Week

Day Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset

Wed8:10 a.m.6:29 p.m.9:42 a.m.7:09 p.m. Thu8:11 a.m.6:27 p.m.11:04 a.m.7:42 p.m. Fri8:13 a.m.6:26 p.m.12:24 p.m.8:26 p.m. Sat8:14 a.m.6:24 p.m.1:36 p.m.9:23 p.m. Sun8:16 a.m.6:23 p.m.2:36 p.m.10:34 p.m. Mon8:17 a.m.6:21 p.m.3:21 p.m.11:53 p.m. Tue8:19 a.m.6:20 p.m.3:54 p.m.Next Day

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• Grand Champion Market Steer: Owned by Jemma Bouma, Purchased by UPI Custom Ag & Harper’s Les Schwab Tire Center at $5.00/lb

• Reserve Champion Market Steer: Owned by Autumn Sutton, Purchased by Valley Irrigation at $7.50/lb

• Grand Champion Market Lamb: Owned by Kealie Hixson, Purchased by UPI Custom Ag at $13.50/lb

• Reserve Champion Market Lamb: Owned by Reagan Johnstone, Purchased by Valley Irrigation at $10.00/lb

• Grand Champion Market Hog: Owned by Sydney Wolsky, Purchased by Alpine Granite at $25.00/lb

• Reserve Champion Market Hog: Owned by Julia Huls, Purchased by Valley Irrigation at $17.00/lb

• Grand Champion Market Goat: Owned by Tucker Freeman, Purchased by Pigman Builders at $12.00/lb

• Grand Champion Bred Dairy Heifer: Owned by Paytn Griffin, Purchased by Hamilton Physical Therpay at $17.00/lb

• Reserve Champion Market Goat: Owned by Tayvn Griffin, Purchased by Big Creek Dairy at $16.00/lb

The 4-H members, FFA Chapters and 4-H Council give a “Heartfelt Thank You” to the following supporters of the 4-H/FFA Livestock Sale:

• Auctioneers: RLP Auctions - Rick Peverley, Jim Ellis

• Ring Men: Larry Trexler, Fritz Robinson, Lisa Hamilton

• Clerking: First Interstate Bank, Andrea Dunlop, Tami Van Kirk, Tara Petz, Desi Norton,

• Buyer’s Registration Table: Hope Earp, Katelyn Andersen, Jenelle Semple, Ivy Semple

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Photos & Certificates

James Banister (Swine, Sheep, Goat), Taylor Tacker (Beef)

Krista Hall, Hasalyn Schairer

Jeanette Smith, Halsey Bishop

April Hawkes, Dori Humphrey

Jody & Robin Hood

A Special Thank You to: Ravalli County Farm Bureau, Weber & Vanorio, CPAs, Alex & Cheri Hartless, Karl Tyler Express Lube, Darnall Family, Edward Jones who have helped cover the sale expenses.

Many Thanks to our Support/Resale Buyers: Hamilton Packing Company, Gary and Carol Leese, Double K Ranch, LLC, J & R Cattle Hoof Trimming

And all of the behind the scenes people who make all of this happen. We apologize if we have missed anyone.

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