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Eagles in winterHumane Groundbreaking held Association for medical Bitter Root Three Mile Community Centercenter open Darby Rodeo Association's Fundraiser Event 2022

Dave Stamey, Cowboy Entertainer Extraordinaire! with pre-concert entertainment by Isabelle Parell

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Friday, August 5th • Darby Rodeo Grounds • Doors open at 5 pm Dinner • Live & Silent Auctions • Concert

celebrates new shelter, 50th anniversary Former Stevi Brewfest beats the heat mayor makes by Victoria by Victoria Howell Howell

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shelter. $50 per person • Tickets at Darby Wine & Spirits, Murdoch's & online at darbyrodeo.org $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 therapy coming, but the new Three Schmiedeke, the decision In addition to thea loan, the Bitterroot Health Mile Community Center is up who serves on to take out a project was paid for by pool – plus imaging held a groundbreakby Michael Howell and cut the ribbon at last week’sthe and running. Located at 4433 both the park loan to finish Three Community and lab services. ceremony, saidMile concerning the Senior ing last Wednesday Sunnyside Cemetery Road, board and the the project. Center (the official name) Bishop said “It organization’s 50 years of service, An new openmedical house celebration was for theits center is on the east side community She said they which raised over $80,000 they hope to have held last week at the Bitter Root was started by a bunch of little old complex that will beThe build- center board, of Lone Rock Park. worked with through community picnics, by Nathan Boddy The Brewfest is thein primary fundraising event of ladies 1972 and it’s still run by a Humane Association’s (BRHA) new the facility open ing contains a large they started Farmers StateChamber rummage sales, bingo nights built just north of meeting the Bitterroot Valley of Commerce (BVCC). animal shelter located on Fairgrounds bunch of little old ladies.” room, a warming working on toyear keepin a row, and donations fromof commuby spring 2023, Last week’s blazing temperatures did not stop a For the Bank second the event made a sucStevensville at the kitchen, a Kathie Butts, President of the Road in Hamilton. The event served state-of-the-art audio visual this ain 2012 their loan nity members. Other major and that they plan busy string of events for the Bitterroot Valley, incessful showing at its new location after having used corner ofand Kootenai double purpose. It included Board, said, “This organization has system, a gorgeous view a ribbon and incorpopayments contributors were the Three on continuing to Creek and Mountains of the Road Bitterroot totherated reasonable. Mile Fireway District, Lone cutting ceremony in honor of new in 2014. come such a long sincethe it was expand Hwy 93. including tours of the whole the west. She said the Those payRock 50 Park andago. theservices. Rapp started about years I feel aFamfacility, “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 care 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 Weekend Backpack Program ly $500,000. taxes that are it as were many who said.be as we make good as he itvolunteers can set 50ththat birthday. said Marcus that serves Lone Rock School. When already being helped on theLois project, and HedgeThe private non-profi t organization the course for the next 50 years.” Daly Hospital had by Howell TheMichael surrounding park conSchmiedeke assessed, TMCSC received reduced chair McCormack saidpeth, that the of the was fisoccer rst organized in 1972. In 1984, tains and baseball “got really Schmiedeke prices from contractors. The Three Mile Community Senior Center board members, l to r, Colorganization conducted a Countess Margarite Bessenyey, the Former Stevensville mayor Brandon Dewhospital board, fields, tennis and volleyball involved,” the is proud that general contractorsuccessful donated laleen Schmiedeke, Joyce Pando and Wendy Audiss in front of the ey appeared in Ravalli County District fundraising campaign fund the new granddaughter ofpath, Marcus Daly, gave saidto this project courts, a walking a playgroupCourt had they didn’t See the CENTER, last toland answer a summons alleging three new community center at Lone Rock Park. Photo by V. Howell. construction but then Covid-19 the week BRHA on Fairgrounds Road ground and 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 Bitcounts of theft and three associated counts with a 99-year lease. Six years later, pandemic hit and construction in the works, costs but of misconduct. charges allegeter anRoot Humane Association Board Member Sue McCormack prepares to cut the ribbon skyrocketed. As a result, the group inofficial 1990, the BessenyeyThe estate deeded there were some John Bishop, pictured fifth from left, leads a gathering of people involved in the celebrating the opening of the new animal shelter in Hamilton. Photo by Michael Howell. attempted $12,020.20 as had to take out a mortgage to finish the land tomisappropriation the organization of where delays due to the reimbursement for his personal legal fees on in- the property Bitterroot project in a ceremonial groundbreaking. The facility that hadHealth housedbuilding the Sue McCormack, who serves on the current shelter is located. The See SHELTER, page curred in an attempt to stop a recall petition 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. against him while in office, making a retroactheir vision that just north of the Stevensville Junction. bycouncil Nathan cumstances, having She adds thatisthe tive payment to himself without ap-Boddy the Stevensville encountered people most important proval as well as making a duplicate payment Christine falling “quality, victim to mail way to combat facility will besuch more Darby, Victor and Corvallis, as well as been providing to himself in another instance, and illegallyStaub, a driving force at the Boxxe Shoppe at fraud in the past. abuse is for people of a “medical center” rather than just a shelling out $19,863 in “severance pay” to five Hamilton. accessible, personalized 901 S. 1st Street, was recently As a certified shipto ask employees also without council approval. clinic. She also said thatquestions Marcus Daly The new 12-acre campus will health care” fordepot 90 years. presented with a Certificate of ping for FedEx, and start conMurphy. Shethe led the Dewey appeared in court temporarily repHospital, which is a critical access In recent the years, theyShoppe provide primary, care, urgent care and Appreciation by Mayor DomiBoxxe versation with those commissioners through resented by a public defender who indicated hospital, was recently rated #4byinlove. the specialty services. Two physicians have nic Farrenkopf and Hamilton is legally justified to you know and have been taking steps to a lengthy fund fund by Victoria Howellto obtain his own legal me like a ton of that Dewey intended Police Chief Stephen Snavely. open package which doesn’t by Staub the national rataccounting that, to sum already been hired, along with a nurse nation for quality invest in all theacommuservices. bricks.” In his presentation to the City bears its shipping know the details it up, shows the county, ing agency, out of 351 similar facilities. practitioner, and two more doctors County Bill Fulbright agreed to Numerous Bald Eagles have been congregating in the Burnt area lately to feed onOverstreet carcasses. was Photos nities of Fork the Bitterroot, When itAttorney comes Council on March 15th, Chief label. After following of what potential overall, doing very well Dewey free on his own recogniby remaining Michael Victoria Howell are being recruited. There willby also be he said, with clinics in to Covid, Greg Howell. sent home from Snavely said that he wants the protocol, and doing victims are told, but on its tax collections and zance but asked District Court Judge HowThe Bitterroot Overstreet has a NaHamilton Police Department so in the presence of the hospital with she knows that over they showing revenues ard Recht to bar Dewey the tional Forest (BNF) willfrom entering The Cowboy Ravalli Countycoached message for you: an oxygenBrewfest. tank. to “become more vocalFriendly about faces a witness, Staub was Bitterroot are, “often at the 27th annual Photo by Nathan Boddy.Ball at the 50% of projections in Stevensville town hall and accessing files. He 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 said he was aware that it is a public building, thisOverstreet, Wednesday, March the tenth annual event and the way it’s shaping within the community.” Shar-performances unfortunate ping or three days. by Michael Howell cluding by contents Montanatwo Shakespeare in downtown Hamilton in years past. Thelegal BVCC took or expenses havepapers only but said it was 30th from 6 toa8very p.m.small one. ing his department’s experiofDaly the package: nearlyDuring paperwork.” Other up, it’s going toaccessibility, be an event worthy ofto a23% jubilee an “The attorney in that time, the Parks and Days in downtown Hamilton. For steps to assure its however, by providamounted of is that any time an individual to share reality 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 those seeking shade and a few cool beverages, howeving a free shuttle to/from downtown Hamilton to the private practice in his oxygen level by Victoria Howell would be inthe there they would be in close proxregarding developsuch opportunity. which the customer scammers include the budget year, the part to job vacancies Rod Freeman is the chair of this year’s er, they were both plentiful on the grounds of the Daly event running every thirty minutes. The spacious appears to be continuing when the council considers Stevensville, was went down to 51, imity to people who are witnesses or potential ment of a draft forest In early March, a customwas the unwittingly sendclaiming county’s performance have yetto torepbe filled. 27th Annual event. Freeman is also thethat chair of the Rodeo diagnosed with from a normal of his efforts to teachMansion the new during the appointment ofBrewfest. two addiwitnesses in this case,” said Fulbright. Climbing Management At the second regular See BREWFEST, page er came to the Boxxe Shoppe ing to a scammer in resent the IRS or in10 is looking pretty good, One big savings was Committee, and the vice chair of the Fair Board, colon cancer 99. “I jokingly say Ryan Archibald, the temporary publictoand Plan (CMP). The virtual council mayor how local Chicago, tional council meeting of thein two-member intending send a package Illinois.members. Social Security according to Ravalli the budgeted funds which he’s been onby forNa12 years. A real estate for February of 2021. that 51 is brain defender representing responded Staub of the Boxxe Shoppe. Photo meeting will be held onDewey,via government “We’ll do our job, ” Christine said FedEx. that should run. He County CFO Klarryse the Administration. county’s share Stevensville Town Council, on agent for 18 years here in the Bitterroot, andin also excluding Dewey town hall was He wentSee through damage material.” Zoom. belowfrom for entering than Boddy. The customer Sometimes they was a frequent commenter Gibson January 27, town clerk Jenelle inappropriate. He the defenin the Army for 21 years, his organizational and instructions and asaid link “directing chemotherapy and But COVID-19 Seewill COUNTY, seemed con- meetings during tell theirpage 10 at council Joan Mell, an attorney with the profile of the Berthoud council andfused dant not totold talkthe about the case with anyone to late join the meeting. Five fundraising skills, and discipline, haveone been put to in August he was wasthe no joke.familiar “It and unOver victims that a loved has the from last administration. In from Hamilton, wasgot recpotential victims, butuse wishes would bepublic appropriate, but exclusion city similar meetings audience thatcancer she was having good as chair of the Cowboy Ball committee. told that the so bad I felt familiar with course of her landed in jail, or that a prize thatold others within the commuby Michael change the adage intoFreeman someof Natural Resources hall would be an issue.” comment, Crews told Howell ognized for stepping in (virtual) were held in meet- the public saidDepartment the committee hopes trouble streaming the process, decade with has been won, but a to feeraise needs had been eradicated. like I couldn’t nity would help her look out thing new and promising: “Whisand Conservation Civil Engineering Judge Recht agreed to releasing Dewey 2021. council that those makto handle the the prosecution this year, to forbethe expansion of the rodeo Staub Boxxe paid for release of the Overstreet had She said andthe breathe, likefor I their safety.$50,000 ings on the internet. At least one Specialist Larry Schock. Two of Montana’s biggest key is for drinking and bucking water is chutes. for on his own recognizance and directed him comment should In addition to the became susShoppe, Staub funds. The scammers will ing public caseload of Town Attorney “They’re just getting old,” he said. surgery on October was being water the former YouTube chanof the potential victimsover she opportunity to learn industries, tourism/recreation and managing.” Instead of fighting Iman, a former County to have no contact with the staff, witnesses picious when has now commonly use aRavalli legitimate “They need to be replaced. They’re getting banged address the mayor, not the Greg Overstreet while he was 23, 2021 for ostomy boarded, or what aided was awith resident at a local Commissioner and former Presinel they had wasand no longer about and participate agriculture, like everything else the water, citizens competing or town officials noinaccessconsidering to any town recovered address, buton will be ready to up. Bucking stock can hard metal.” removal, theof fidevelopnal I imagine water audience. He also in said, “This hospitalized, and then recovextended nursing facility and the process life, need water to thrive. Both interests came together to work dent ofbe the Painted Rocks records, except through Dewey was working but they had setthe upcourt. the customapproximately grab the package fromactually aWater porch The 10th annual cowboy ball – which in the boarding to had be out. to be provided with acoride is not a question and answer” ering, from Covid-19. Mell ing a climbing plan, this sectors of the economy suffer when something The result was a Users Association, replaced longallowed to attend public meetings. He is due atreatment new Facebook page. Hower’s age and $60,000 in or front door when it arrives. started 11the yearstime ago but couldn’t be held last year to water the bank as well as that to colon cancer journey. like,”ordinated recalls week’s meeting will weeks cov- to make the water runs low. Back in the sharing plan Bitterroot Water Commissionback in court in two a plea to session. “It’s public comment. ” did the work at no charge to the particular cash, all of “They always direct the ever, members of the public Boxxe Shoppe. due to the – has been thislast The day after that Overstreet. er the following agenda 1980’s it was not forwanted working remarkably wellpandemic er Al Pernichle asupgraded dam the charges. details the had said which washas victim to send it, ‘notender signature The of mayor previoustheuncommon town. “I just to been“This who had tried to the “It’s 40 common sense to me,”year. It is his job to keep tabs on year. topics: the river to virtually dry up at Bell now for almost years. “Theseheallegations are malicious, and I will surgery, was access is when I realized transaction. required,’” she adds. ly that he would beCrossing answering publicly thankbeing Joan fraudufor helpThesays, Town ofextremely Stevensville recognized attorney Joan she pointing out that red Facebook saidmyself,” it was not • Review overall “This is the fithe rst year we’ve ever done aMell, fully north of Victor. That’s Thenot plan involves amount of water flowing into continue topage defend said Dewey as he diagnosed with that I was Unfortunatelently deThe Bank Secrecy Act 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. Berthoud asked ly, it was not when Bitterrooters got together close monitoring of water flowsdinner,” and the reservoir andThe thebanks amount left the courthouse. catered said Freeman. University COVID-19. taking Covid manded from of 1970 requires to flowbeing scammed. “If awater person thatdecided they to said outcomes ofas the public buckOverstreet. the old adage very careful of the ing outService and the flows so ofPictured Montana Catering provide theof hadrationing Covid-19. with Mell are, l regulate towill Overstreet, for patience she worked Staub’sCrews “I was obviously enough. first also saidand seniorseriously citizen keep track ofr, withdrawals is 80the years old, and all of a conversations that comes to everyone’s mind in held behind state-owned dam that all of the competing interests should be prepared for some Desserts are provided by 4H members. time having members of $10,000 or more in order very weakened,” said through the issues. Mayorthey’re Steve dinner. Gibson, council members Cindy Brown and coming into theget The Boxxe Shoppe’s new location • Provide an update on hot days: at Painted Rocks Reservoir up the a share when water runs low. encountered See STEVI, page 2 sudden “interesting comments” Greg Overstreet talks about hisMontana recentfrom brush withsummer death due tothe commuOverstreet. “Itformer hit Jim Crews, mayor bank to5withdraw $15,000, it Stacie Barker. by Victoria Howell. at 901“Whiskey S. 1st Street in drinking Hamilton.and nity. See COWBOY BALL page 4 See SURVIVING, is for water West Dam Tender and Bit“It’s not a perfect system,” said by Photo Michael Howell such cirStaub is Fork.page Covid. Photo by Victoria Howell. See SCAMMERS, page 2 makesWater my ‘spidy’ sense tingle.” See PLAN, page 2 Photoisbyfor Nathan Boddy. fighting.” Instead, irrigators terroot River Commissionand recreationists came together to er J. R. Iman works closely with Last week the Ravalli County Commissioners See RELEASE, pageap5 It was reported incorrectly in last proved adoption of a memorandum of understandweek’s article about Stevensville’s former ing with the Ravalli County DUI Task Force and letter the commissioners statedInstituteProtection aspen and whitebark pine; being charged with theftNational that the Forest 1987 Forest MAPS Media to produceAgency. a video The designed bymayor Michael Howell to help parents keep tabs on their children’s behavStevensville Town Council hadPlan. requested that “Ravalli County objects contains recommendations manage timber to provide ior. impacts to the investigation. According to Mayor concerning the Draft SEIS for forest products and jobs; and to unmitigated A new record of decision The deadline closed on if it would Victoria Howell be possible The states DUI Task Force approved creation of Steve Gibson, the investigation was reyear, the facility took inthe just under byby Victoria Howell by Michael Howell is a certified fraud examiner, Dewey acting as the Financial thewas Gold Butterfly. Concerncounty owned/maintained was issued on December 17, retain old growth status in all to put envelopes on January 18,by forHowell filing byquested Victoria his property which would in effect with the highway, which is aastate addressed when the private land was Mischief Room lastand May and commissioners his newobjecadministration which $240,000 spent every penny. that he received information on Officer for the Town of Stevensville roads heavy theowner scopeand of the analysis treatment to 2021 accompanied by a to Draft all doors and Dominic shutthen off access Stevensville Riverunits. According highway, because nowfrom you’re goingequipment to on it. sold toproject aing new Fish, Wildlife off involved creation tions toover theShinn, Draft Supplementook inFarrenJanuary 2022. Atthe the July 28 Jasmin founder and There The are paid employees; it’s an At a special meeting on July January 27, 2022 thatsigned close to andno was making the the payroll forallallof kopf, activities director put valentine cards in The Stevensville Town Couna 20-acre park on the east bank have release two accesses forlogging trucksatrucks, pulling and Parks got involved. The once-prithe letter quotes the Bittera Forest Service press and mostly, SEIS thatPark, provides a site-speset of easily accessible items that had secret hiding special meeting, council member Marilyn tal Environmental Statement 28, the Stevensville Town Council $20,000 had been paid out to five employees. volunteer organization. ButtoShinn said executive director of 1 Horse at Sapphire them. Farrenkopf cil was 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 Wolff requested that the Bitterroot Star beplan root Forest Plan’s Forest-wide not limited theitimpacts cific forest amendment about 90% of proposed considered a fraud examination employees upon their separation According to Sosa, there is an (Draft SEIS) for the Gold At A Time Draft Horse Rescue costs about $200 per month to feed Homes Hamilton, is near liked the idea.property. He askedCrews contacted the county a small of park land the Stevi Wyean at 45 miles per hour - there developed fishing access drugs or hide aand small of whiskey. The aim was askedpiece toinprint a correction. to Willow Creek Road. Due tois aflask Management Wildlife Re-site. treatment areas are within defining old-growth stanreport presented by Police Chief from employment with the town. Butterfly Project, a Bitterroot these “gentle giants.” Then there are facility in Corvallis, got a nice asking the bridge, community students Stevensville an item that was at schools and negotiated the donation of the are going to be accidents there.” I think it’s [the piece on the to provide parents“But a learning opportunity to see the See REPORT, page 11 Mac Sosa. In thearea report Sosa, who At the time, then mayor Brandon source Objective “Maintain designated for insect and financial limitadards. Some objections to securing the 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, potential Mayorand Steve resource Gibson said he didn’t west] still a viable oftoland for the various ways in which any youngpiece person can hide Last year the envelopes. sufficient habitat Ravalli County would decision were received because of thetions, little love this special envelopes presented with aValencheck for $7500 associated costsold-growth to rehabilitate meeting. The land ownership willnew now river and access pending the disease outcometreatment of see what use land is to the town. “Iother city tofrom have, whether or not you put their substance use casual inspections. includes nearly 13,000 acres lopes were so full they The project is now tine’s Day. decorate them for each revert to the county. The 1.52-acre the access dispute. only see a liability,” said Gibson. money into developing it,” said Motnot be able to accommodate on suitable timberland to by the January 18 deadline dense pockets of dead and dythese horses. When they’re fi nally ready from representatives of JCCS, an Glenda Wiles, Director of the DUI Task Force, of commercial and non-comhad to be emptied more really popular, and About years resident. people piece, whichfour tomostly the Then Council Wolff Michaelson he looked upwhat the for ley. are many cars out said sheadoption, tells“There parents is,so “If you don’t look, accounting fiis rmlocated with aadjacent branch most can be driven or there, support viable populations ing trees. They claim area said the necessary maintenance having to do member with the Marilyn mercial vegetative treatment than the once. growing every year. ago, a in resident came drop offsaid valenBitterroot River on the northwest side she had apotenreal problem with old minutes andduring found that the land I see. think can be used for parking. But then younor don’t If it you don’t see, then you don’t ridden, and some just become “pasture located Hamilton. Part of could the logging of old-growth dependent the project, the of old growth, is impacted by mountain pine within a 55,000was acre area ofto the to Farrenkopf to see tines to fill the enveof the bridge, offered Town this piece of land. “It’s where two was donated on the condition that looking long term, if you have propSee VALENTINES, page 10 selection for awarding that gift tial impacts to wildlife and to pets.” See DUI, page 10 rehabilitation of the road afteron the species. ” side The letter Douglas-fir bark beetle, forest inby theRavalli Sapphire Mounin 2017 for use as a roads converge, the bankbeetle, is incrediit would be maintained and utilized erty west ofestablished thenotes river,that then was online voting County and according 1 Horse At A Time was DrafttoSEIS limits the scope dwarf mistletoe and the project is complete. Ravalli Willow Creek Road.I think there are potential river access site. bly steep… liability for western recreational purposes within five you havethe access potentially consoltains eastbranch of Corvallis. by Shinn in 2018. She’s originally from to JCCS manager, Andrea of its environmental consespruce budworm damage. County objects to shifting Bitterroot National Forest During the tenure of former issues… It is the fastest part of the years. idate highway property into the Town RDO Co. The original proposal was Simmerman, 1 Horse A Time Germany whereEquipment 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 something financial burden of the project quences analysis to vegetation, officials have stated that withdrawn in August of 2020 8571 Running W. Road horses. She’s always been a horse fan, was one of the topnortheast four vote side had at the river on the you were to develop thatwith the ber,proposed said that nothing had County been done Equipment Co. the pileated woodpecker and project ischannel. designedIfto improve agreement to Ravalli and believe RDO after Friends theoff Bitterroot getters. passionate about Missoula, MT 59808 attempted to of shut river access on for fishing, I would also see a problem because the access problem had been but she is especially See STEVI, page 16 8571 Running W. Road pine marten. project, the Ravalli County it is contrary to current law forest resilience to natural checkfor followed in the wake draft horses. She and her husband, a andThat Alliance the Wild 406-549-4171 and existing agreements. ” “We 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. relocatedRDOequipment.com toindicator Montana and bought a 20406-549-4171 agency failed to use the best acre farm which Shinn said can support That sounds like a lot of the Forest Plan, but it is not county owned and maintained comments from Philip Strobel ment sources in the Willow available science in managing Presenting a check for $7500 from JCCS to Jasmin Shinn (second from left) of 1 Horse At RDOequipment.com money but, according to Shinn, Creek watershed; improve 20 horses. She currently roads, Willow Creek DirectorJCCS of the NEPAabout Branch clear whether there are other A Time Draft Horse Rescue were, l to r: especially Levi Clark, CPA, Andrea Simmerman, Branch elk habitat and didn’t comtaking care of draft horses is Office of the Regional Adminbull trout habitat; restore Road. Manager, and Will Ramsey, CPA. Also pictured is Tiny, the non-profit’s mascot and the ply with the definition of old an expensiveYproposition. Last CO.COM including meadows, RESCUE, page 65 See See GOLD, page •FREEbyESTIMATES INTime. THE BITTERROOT VALLEY• OURH OMEIMPROVEMENThabitat istrator In a At letter to the Forest first horse that was rescued 1 Horse A Photo by Victoria Howell. of the Environmental

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