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Eagles in winterHumane Groundbreaking held for medical center Bitter Root Association Three Mile Community Center Homeless in the Bitterroot - affordability open is key

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by Victoria by Victoria Howell by Michael Howell Howell

shelter. $140,000. a levy, so this won’t have any tional physical cil, Supporters of Abuse Free Environ- couch-surfing or moving somewhere small window ofand time. During According The parkduring a additional impact on people’s therapyalso services – ments (SAFE), Affordable Housing else for the season. On this night board made this year’s PiT, surveyors encounIt’s been a long time to Colleen property taxes. This past winter on January 27 Coalition, District XI Human Resource about 138 people were found who tered several people who may have including a therapy coming, but the new Three Schmiedeke, the decision In addition to the loan, the Bitterroot Health as theCommunity temperatureCenter in theisBitterroot Council, met HUD’s definition of homelessqualified for the was survey and did not Mile up who serves on Supporters of Abuse Free to take out a cut the project paid for by the pool – plus imaging held a groundbreakby Michael Howell and ribbon atRavalli last week’s dropped from 19 degrees at 6 p.m. to a Environments (SAFE), the Bitterroot ness which includes people living on want to participate. County’s and running. Located at 4433 both the park loan to finish Three Mile Community Senior and lab services. ceremony, saidinterviewed concerning the peoing last low of 3Wednesday degrees at 6 a.m. on the 28th, Family the street, using emergency housing PiT surveyors some Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the Shelter, Ravalli County Head the project. Center (the official name) Bishop said “It organization’s 50 years ofpermanent service, An open house celebration was afor team of volunteers fromside the BitterStart, Habitat for Humanity, Summit services, and residing in structures who could afford its new medical the center is on the east community She saidple they whichnot raised over $80,000 they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old root Affordable Housing Coalition Independent Living, Salvation Army, not meant for permanent habitation housing and lived in campers with complex that will beThe build- center board, of Lone Rock Park. worked with through community picnics, (BAHC) was out gathering informaand Valley Villas. such as in tents, sheds, and campers full hookups. While not technically ladies in 1972 and it’s still run by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) new the facility open ing contains a large they started Farmers State rummage sales, bingo nights built just north of meeting tion on the plight of the homeless. The annual Point in Time (PiT) without access to hookups. meeting the HUD definition of homeanimal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” room, a warming kitchen, a working on Bank to keep and donations fromof commuby spring 2023, Stevensville The BAHC isata the volunteer organizasurvey, a requirement of the DepartThe survey also includes questions lessness, the circumstances and needs Kathienity Butts, President of the Road in Hamilton. The event served state-of-the-art audio visual this ain 2012 their loan members. Other major and that they plan corner of Kootenai tion formed 2015 to address theand incorpoment of Housing and Urban Develabout demographics and communiof thosesaid, living in campgrounds are double purpose. It included Board, “This organization has system, andin a gorgeous view a ribbon payments contributors were the Three on continuing to Creek and Mountains lack of Road affordable housing Ravalli ty resource use. In Ravalli County,reasonable. considered to understand of the Bitterroot to 2014. (HUD) for communities Mile Fireway District, the Lone cutting ceremony in honorinof therated new inopment come such aimportant long since it was expand services. County. Coalition is aofcommunity in the Continuum of surveyors connect with people experiwhen fully analyzing the community’s Hwy 93.The the west. She saidparticipating the Those payRock Park and the Rapp started about 50 years ago. I feel aFamfacility, including tours the whole effort composed of a broad range of Care program, is a tool that captures encing homelessness through service-­ housing needs. For data purposes, “We’re bringing the The building is now home total cost is ments come ily Foundation. John Bishop, building, and anBitarray of food and huge sense of responsibility to honor members representing social service a limited snapshot of the housing providing organizations and door-tothese surveys werecare tabulated and col- ” to the patients, to the senior center and the approximateout of park Schmiedeke said there terroot those who have come before us and drink inHealth honorCEO, of the organization’s organizations, educators, non­profit insecurity problems in the communidoor outreach. The count does nottaxes that lated Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. are separately. were many who said.be as we make it as good as he itvolunteers can set 50th birthday. said that Marcus organizations, local public assistance, include every person who experiences “There are many in Ravalli County that serves Lone Rock School. When ty. The count takes place on one night already being helped on the project, and Lois HedgeThe private non-profi t organization the course for the next 50 years.” Daly Hospital had faith-based groups, andconconcernedSchmiedeke in the middle of winter, by which time homelessness in this community but fall under this reduced exact defi The surrounding park assessed,who do not TMCSC received chair McCormack saidpeth, that the of the was fisoccer rstincluding organized in 1972. In 1984, citizens many experiencing homelessness have rather those who were visible to surtains and baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices from contractors. The Seeconducted HOMELESS, page 13 Three Milesolutions Community Senior board members, l to r, Cola successful Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the hospital board, District XIand Human Resource Counfound such as Center veyors and willing to take the survey fields, tennis volleyball involved,” the temporary is proudorganization that general contractor donated laleen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the fundraising campaign fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, gave saidto this project courts, a walking a playgroup had they didn’t See the CENTER, new community center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction but then Covid-19 the BRHA on Fairgrounds Road ground andland a covered picnic raised Bitterroot about have to run has been four page years3 Chamber of Commerce Director Al Mitchell holds the group spell-bound as Bitwith a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit and construction in the works, costs but ter Root Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon skyrocketed. As a result, the group in 1990, the Bessenyey estate deeded John Bishop, pictured from left, leads a gathering people involved in the there were some celebrating the opening of the new animalfifth shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michaelof Howell. had to take out a mortgage to finish the land to the organization where delays due to the Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facility on the property that hadHealth housedbuilding the Sue McCormack, who serves on the current shelter is located. The See SHELTER, page pandemic. She said2 theat organization’s of directors will be built on land located the corner ofboard Kootenai Creek Road and Hwy 93 new building replaces an old building shelter since 1984. by Tiffany Williams wholesale arrangetheir vision that just north of the Stevensville Junction. by Nathan Boddy cumstances, having She adds thatisthe ments at restauthe Stevensville encountered people most important Jay Hayward saw rants and resorts. 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 the signs. He’d been “Iisknow I can force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. Hamilton. abuse for people of a “medical center” rather thanbut justita accessible, personalized dramatic, 901 S. 1st Street, waswatching recently a weather As a certified shiptobe ask questions clinic. She also said that Marcus Daly app on his phone while seems fair to say The new 12-acre campus will health fordepot 90 years. presented with a Certificate of care” ping for FedEx, and start conMurphy. Shethe led the has working his booth attheyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and early season Hospital, which isversation athe critical access In recent years, Appreciation by Mayor Domithe Boxxe with those commissioners through the HamiltonisFarmers been pretty brutal,” hospital, was recently rated #4byin the specialty services. Two physicians have nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton legally justified to you know and love. have been taking steps to a lengthy fund fund by Fire Victoria me like a ton of dangerHowell on the Bitterroot NaMarket on Saturday, Putnam-Smith Police Chief Stephen Snavely. open package which doesn’t by Staub the national rataccounting to sum already been hired, along with a nurse nation for quality invest in all theacommubricks.” tional Forest was raised from “Low” to June 18th, and could said the inthat, an email to In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know details it up, shows the county, ing agency, out of 351 similar facilities. practitioner, and two more doctors Numerous EaglesForest have been congregating tell in the Burnt Fork area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. was Photos nities ofstorm the Bitterroot, When it comes “Moderate” on Bald Monday. officials a severe was subscribers. Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential overall, doing very well by Michael Howell. Victoria Howell being recruited. also be are reminding residents and visitors Up and Sheare detailed hethe said, with clinicsand in doingaresent to Covid, Gregarea home from There willby Snavely said that he approaching. wants protocol, victims told, but on its tax collections and to be careful with fire. “We had cool, The Bitterroot down the valley, hail other farming woes Overstreet has a NaHamilton Police Department so in the presence of the hospital with she knows that over they showing revenues wet spring weather, are more vocal tional Forest (BNF) but willconditions battered plunked Staub was an oxygen tank. — an unusually The Cowboy Ball at the 50% Ravalli County message for you: to “become about roofs, a witness, are, “often coached of projections in drying out quickly,” said Mark Wilson, host a public meeting tree branches, and cool and Fairgrounds will be held February 12th. This is don’t fool around! the good things that happen able to uncover the He was home for to departments say theyovercast are shipmost while Fire Management Officer. “In within many arthisOverstreet, Wednesday, March decimated crops. Some spring delaying the the tenth annual event and the way it’s shaping the community.” Sharunfortunate contents two or three days. ping legal by Michael Howell expenses havepapers only or 30thspring from 6 to 8resulted p.m. eas, rains in a good crop residents reported seeemergence of cering his department’s experiof the package: nearly paperwork.” Other up, it’s going to be an event worthy of a jubilee an attorney in During that time, amounted to 23% of tograss sharethat information of can feed a wildfireence when ing balls an inch tain flowers, anfor emwith Ms. Staub was one of ice$16,000 in cash, common tactics 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 developitregarding dries out.the People need to besuch careful in diameter. ployee with Covid, opportunity. which thethe customer scammers include the budget year, the part to jobyear’s vacancies Rod Freeman is the chair of this appears to be continuing when council considers Stevensville, was went down to 51, ment camping, of a draft forest in the back when driving counAs Hayward turned and ayet pathogen in In early March, a customwas unwittingly sendclaiming to repcounty’s performance that have to be filled. event. Freeman is also the chair of the Rodeo diagnosed withfirewood,” a normal of his efforts to teach the new the appointment offrom two addiClimbing Management try and cutting the soil that is causAt the second regular he said. er came to the Boxxetoward Shoppehis Stevensville ing to a scammer in resent the IRS or is looking pretty good, One of bigthe savings was in Committee, and the vice chair Faircollapse Board, colon cancer 99. “I jokingly say Plan (CMP). The virtual council mayor howhe local tional When danger is “moderate”, firestoand farm, braced him- council ing stem meeting offire thein two-member intending send a package Chicago, Illinois.members. Social Security according tobeen Ravalli the budgeted funds for which he’s on for 12 years. A real estate February of 2021. that 51 is brain Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo by Nameeting bemost heldaccidental on can start will from causes, selfrun. for an in the cosmos and government should Heapocalyptic “We’ll do our job, ” Christine said via FedEx. Administration. County CFO Klarryse the county’s share in Stevensville Town Council, on agent for 18 years here in the Bitterroot, also He went through damage material.” Zoom. See below than Boddy. but the number of for fires is usually low. scene. zinnias. and Thewas customer Sometimes they aIffrequent commenter Gibson 27, in town in the Army for 21 years, his organizational and instructions and aclerk link chemotherapy and But COVID-19 aJanuary fire starts open, dryJenelle grassland, it will “It was traumatic That was before Seewill COUNTY, page 10 seemed con- meetings during tell their at council Joan Mell, an attorney with the profile of the Berthoud told the council to late join thespread meeting. Fiveonand fundraising skills, and discipline, have been put to burn and windy days. for sure,” said Haythe hailone caused her in August hequickly was wasthe no joke.familiar “It fused and unOver victims that a loved has the last administration. In from Hamilton, wasgot recpotential victims, butuse wishes similar meetings audience that4th she having With the ofwas July right around the good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. ward, owner of Fern to delay delivery told thatpublic the cancer so bad I felt familiar with course of her landed in jail, or that a prize that others withinFreeman the commupublic Crews told much ognized in (virtual) were heldthe in National corner, the Bitterroot Forest is comment, & Co. “Pretty all for stepping for heraTuesday said the committee hopes to trouble streaming meet- the process, decade with has been won, but feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t nity would help her look out 2021. aings great place tohad get away from thethe noise of ourmakmature heads of the the council that those to handle prosecution this year, to forbethe expansion of the rodeo and Staub Boxxe paid forsubscribers. release of the Overstreet breathe, likefor I their safety.$50,000 on the internet. She said At least one In addition the your holiday. of fireworks andtoenjoy Smith-Putnam lettuce were gone. We of 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 of the potential victims she opportunity to learn chanRemember fireworks are not permitted ended her note had broccoli, cabbage, picious when haswhile now commonly use a getting legitimate “They need to be replaced. They’re banged address the mayor, not the Greg Overstreet he was 23, 2021 for ostomy boarded, or what aided was a resident at a local nel they had was no longer about and participate in on all National Forests year-round. No with a few good and cauliflower. Some recovered address, buton will be ready to up.facility Bucking stock can be hard metal.” removal, theof fidevelopnalhad set up considering I imagine water audience. He alsoofsaid, “This hospitalized, and then recovextended nursing and the process working but they fireworks of any kind may be discharged natured jokes and them blew up with a the customapproximately grab the package from a porch The 10th annual cowboy ball – which actually in the boarding to had be to be provided with a ride isage notand a question and answer” ering, from Covid-19. ing a climbing plan, anywhere within the this Bitterroot National awhen reminder from direct hit.” atreatment new Facebook page. How- er’s $60,000Mell in or front door it arrives. started 11the years ago but couldn’t be held last year to the heads bank as well as to colon journey. like,” recalls week’scancer meeting Hail at shot the lettuce like a bullet. Some people “It’s public comment. did the work nothrough charge Forest, regardless of covweather the white Hayward”– whose the session. particular cash, all of to “They always directboard the in ever, members ofwill the public conditions Boxxe Shoppe. due to the pandemic – has beenher upgraded this The day after that Overstreet. “This er the following agenda or holidays. Please leave themdetails at home. reported seeing hail up to an inch in diameter. Photos courtesy of flower studio last name means 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 is when I realized Violations are punishable by atransaction. fine of up to “Trust field. “keeper of the fields” being fraudurequired,’” she adds. Ashlee Schmaltz. ly that he would be answering publicly thank Joan for help- she The Town of Stevensville recognized attorney Joanthe out that red Facebook page said it wasinnot • Review overall is the first year we’ve ever done aMell, fully diagnosed with that I was not says, pointing“This to $5,000 or six months jail. Anyone And breathe.” She — begins his long slow Unfortunatelently deThe Bank Secrecy Act questions from the public. ing me and helpingtaking the town, ” center, abound when seniors are for filling in while town Greg objectives desired accessible. Berthoud asked catered dinner,” said Freeman. TheOverstreet University COVID-19. Covidflags who starts aand wildfire can be held thanked subscribtoil (12- to 15-hour ly, liable it was not manded from ofattorney 1970 requires banks to being scammed. “If a person Crews that theyin April. saidWithin Overstreet. outcomes ofas the public ofPictured Montana Catering Service provide theof had Covid-19. with Mell are, l towill Overstreet, for suppression costs which can be subpatience she worked for supporting workdays) min“I was obviously Staub’s first also said seniorseriously citizen enough. keep track ofr,ers withdrawals is 80 years old, and all of a conversations should be prepared for some stantial. dinner. Desserts are provided by members. her4H farm despite utes most of that work was undone time having members of $10,000 or more in order very weakened,” said through the issues. Mayor Steve Gibson, council members Cindy Brown and they’re coming into the The Boxxe newAlocation •Firefighters Provide an are update the“interesting pub-talks about the things she can’t byrecent the Shoppe’s freak storm. few miles encountered See STEVI, page 2 sudden comments” from Gregfor Overstreet his brush with death due tothe commuOverstreet. “Itformer hit asking Jim Crews, mayor bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. by Victoria at 901 S. 1st StreetSchmaltz, in Hamilton. See COWBOY page 4 SURVIVING, page by Photo Michael Howell Howell. lic’s help in preventing Covid. humanPhoto caused control.BALLpage away, Ashlee Hayward’s such cirnity.See Staub is by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, 2 makes my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” See PLAN, page 2 Photo by Nathan Boddy. wildfires. Keep campfires small, and As for Hayward, partner and co-owner of Fern & Last week the Ravalli County he Commissioners apcompletely extinguish them before leavurged communiCo., waited for updates. When proved adoption of a memorandum of understanding camp. The best method is to douse ty members to shop she understood the extent of the ing with the Ravalli County DUI with Tasklocal Forcefarmers and the fire with water, stir the ashes and damage, Schmaltz made a post on Agency. letter the commissioners statedInstituteProtection Forest 1987 Forest that reached aspen and whitebark pine; MAPS Media to produce a videoofThe designed douse again, making sure that all National ashes instead buying Instagram hundreds by Michael Howell to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavare cold to the touch. produce from larger of buyers and growers. that “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide Plan. ior. impacts to There are no fire restrictions at this grocers. HeSEIS saidfor the The couple’s Hail Mary pass and jobs; and concerning the Draft forest products to unmitigated A new record of decision The deadlineHowell closed on if it would be possible Victoria The DUI Task Force approved the creation of time. To stay updated, prices are the same, was to turn the damaged crops year, the facility took in just under bybyVictoria Howell visithttps://www. thewhen Gold Butterfly. Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued 17, retain old growth status in all envelopes onDecember January 18, forHowell filing objec- to put by Victoria hison property in effect addressed private land was Mischief$240,000 Room lastand May and the commissioners mtfireinfo.org/. but buying from into which pestos,would dressings, and cream with the highway, which is aastate spent every penny. roads from heavy equipment ing the scope of the analysis treatment units. According to 2021 accompanied by a Draft all the doors and Dominic Farrenshutthen off access to Stevensville River highway, because now you’re going to sold to a new owner and Fish, Wildlife signed off on it. The project involved the creation tions to the Draft SupplemenThis year, Forest firefighting crews a farmerit’s keeps cheese spreads they will sell at Jasmin Shinn,director founder and There are no paid employees; an all-of kopf, activities put valentine cards The Stevensville Town Counain 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, SEIS thatPark, provides a site-speset of easily accessible that hadThe secret hiding have extinguished four human-caused money in the local their new Stevensville shop, The tal Environmental Statement volunteer organization. ButtoShinn said executive director of 1 Horse atwas Sapphire Lutheran them. Farrenkopf cil split on 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 the state compartments where someone could stash some root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide not limited the impacts cific forest plan amendment about 90% of proposed fires and two lightning fires on the Biteconomy and helps Sour Doe. (Draft SEIS) for the Gold A Time Horse it costs about $200 perfishing month toaim feed Homes inDraft Hamilton, isRescue liked the idea.property. He askedCrews aAtsmall piece of park land near the contacted the county Stevi Wyean at 45 miles per hour - there is aflask developed access site. drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The was terroot National Forest. neighborhood farm Further north in Stevensville at to Willow Creek Road. Due to Management Wildlife Retreatment areas are within defining old-growth stanButterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility Corvallis, gotitem a nice askinginthe community students Stevensville bridge, an that was at schools and negotiated the donation of the are going to be accidents there.” “But I think it’s [the piece on the to provide parents a learning opportunity to see the businesses weather Bleeding Farm, ownsource Objective “Maintain area designated for insect and financial limitadards. Some objections to Heart the Flower boost lastForest week when she was veterinary bills, therapy, training, and to send his athat and daycares to make National project considered atresidents the March 24th council land on the west, securing potential Mayorand Steve resource Gibson said he didn’t west] still a viable piece oftoland for the various ways in which any youngunexpected person can storms. hide er Cindy Putnam-Smith assessed Last year lopes. the disease sufficient habitat tions, Ravalli County would decision were received treatment because of the littletolove this special envelopes presented with aValencheck for $7500 associated costsold-growth to rehabilitate meeting. The land ownership willnew now river and access pending outcome of A see what use theenveland is to the town. “Iother city tofrom have, whether or you putthe their substance use casual inspections. includes nearly 13,000 acres Note Stevensville town resiTonot purchase the damage toproject her own farm. lopes were so full they The 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, dents: Our newspaper carrier is on of commercial and non-compestos, dressings, flowerreally subscription service, had to be emptied more popular, and BleedAbout four years resident. people piece, which located tomostly the Then Council Marilyn 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 rm with aadjacent branch most can be driven oratthere, support viable populations ing trees. They claim the area said the necessary maintenance having to ing do member with the medical leave. Please be patient with and produce Heart Flower Farm provides mercial vegetative treatment than once. growing every year. ago, a in resident came drop offsaid valenBitterroot River on the northwest side she had apotenreal problem withlocations 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 our substitute delivery people. They are weekly bouquets at five The Sour Doe, visit of old-growth dependent the project, the logging 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 that giftweekly pets.” See DUI, page 10 doing theirfor best to get you your throughout the Bitterroot and them at 101 Church rehabilitation of the road afteron the species. ” side The letter notes to converge, wildlife and tobank beetle, Douglas-fir bark beetle, forest in theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 by for usetial as aimpacts roads the is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty west of the river,that then paper. Thank you! County Missoula in addition to providing St. in Stevensville. was online voting and according 1 Horse At A Time was established 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 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 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 channel. If you were to develop that ber, said that nothing had been done RDO Equipment Co. the pileated woodpecker and is designed to improve agreement with the proposed to Ravalli County and believe after Friends theoff Bitterroot getters. 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 passionate See STEVI, page 16 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 and existing agreements. ” “We and realize these old growth Commissioners expressed Missoula, MT 59808 military retiree, 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 Closed for the 4th of July 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 501 S. 1st Street • Hamilton 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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