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Fire camp for the 1967 Huckleberry Mountain Fire, just south of Great Northern Flats, Aug. 25, 1967.
70 years ago
Aug. 4, 1947
A feature on Sperry Chalet in Glacier National Park noted the mountain goats hang out on the porch (they still do that today) and rooms were $6.25 a day, with three meals included. “On average, 30 persons a day are taking to the Sperry trail by horse or foot,” the story noted.
60 years ago
Aug. 2, 1957
Glacier National Park was considering putting up two-room shelters at Fifty Mountain and one at Ahearn Pass. The shelters would be similar to the one at Gunsight Lake. Today, there aren’t shelters at either location and the Gunsight Lake one is no longer there as well. Editor Mel Ruder wrote a front-page editorial favoring a city manager form of government, saying the city should be run like a business. He noted the democratic process would allow council to fire the manager if he wasn’t doing his job.
50 years ago
Aug. 4, 1967
Firefighters were mopping up a stubborn 82-acre fire up Canyon Creek. Ten School District 6 teachers had summer jobs in Glacier National Park, including seasonal rangers Kerel and Norm Hagen, Don Lawrence, and John Perry. In an editorial, Mel Ruder suggested the Jewel Basin be restricted to just hikers, noting the thin soil and poor grazing areas were not good for horse travel. Today, horses are banned in the Jewel.
40 years ago
Aug. 4, 1977
A black bear bit Neale Roberts, 19, of Evergreen, Colorado in the head while he was camping at Arrow Lake in Glacier National Park. Two Glacier Park rangers were assaulted trying to serve a warrant on Amy Flammand at Kip’s Beer Garden in St. Mary. Flammand allegedly had allowed cattle to trespass in the Park. Several men jumped the rangers and attacked them. Injured were rangers Rodney B. Jacobson and Lloyd P. Kortge. Jacobson had hairline fractures around his eye as a result of a heavy man jumping on his face. Jacobson was hospitalized in Cardston, Alberta, for his injuries.
30 years ago
Aug. 5, 1987
Glacier Park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road would be closed at night five nights a week for road construction. Contractor E.F. Matelich was drilling holes in the road and pumping grout beneath the surface of the highway to stabilize the road. Similar work was done during the latest road reconstruction in the past 10 years. They were also going to repair a 310-foot retaining wall at Triple Arches.
20 years ago
Aug. 7, 1997
Glacier National Park was gearing up for a visit from Vice President Al Gore, who was expected to promote his pro-environment policies during his visit. It was hot outside, but the city pool had to turn away kids because it didn’t have enough life guards. The pool had a capacity of about 192 kids, but only enough lifeguards for 100.
10 years ago
Aug. 2, 2007
The Skyland Fire was the No. 1 fire in the nation. Burning up the Middle Fork, the fire had scorched 16,000 acres. It would eventually burn over the Continental Divide. City council was still debating whether to buy 28 acres of land near the Flathead River. The land would eventually be bought and would become River’s Edge Park.