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Opinion: Christman recalls flood
The Great Flood of 1964 had a profound effect upon my life. In fact, in my stories of “Tales of a Misspent Youth,…
How do we get answers?
The group was vocal for a very short time when a man yielded his time to another. The vice chai spoke over him saying yields would not be allowed. Madame chair allowed it this one time. Roberts Rules need to be fol…
Interlocal coming up
On Feb. 9 the North Fork will gather for the Winter Interlocal. As always, the meeting will feature speakers from County, State and Federal agencies that have management responsibilities on the North Fork. Also spe…
Loving the place to death
All North Fork issues and concerns have a common cause. Whether it is the road, grizzly bears, wolves, zoning or the Inside Road the problem is the same and we cannot get a handle on it. It is simple — too many peo…
Loving the place to death
All North Fork issues and concerns have a common cause. Whether it is the road, grizzly bears, wolves, zoning or the Inside Road the problem is the same and we cannot get a handle on it. It is simple — too many peo…
Opposes repeater on Elk
I am writing today to strongly protest the installation of a radio repeater and other equipment on Elk Mountain in Glacier National Park.
Road leads to adventures in the ditch
We may have had a slow start to winter, but December recreated a real North Fork winter. We now have an above normal amount of snow – almost four feet at Trail Creek before it started to settle with a little warmer…
Thoughts on griz delisting
Flannery Coats and her Vice President Debo Powers did an excellent job last week in outlining why grizzly bears should not be delisted. I agree with almost all of what Flannery said and some of what Debo said. In o…
Bear thoughts
Most people who live up the North Fork call themselves “North Forkers.” You’ll know a North Forker when you meet one. At meetings outside of the North Fork, introductions usually go “my name is so and so and I’m a …
Powers on grizzlies
I love living on the edge of Glacier National Park. Every time that I see a grizzly bear or a lynx and every time that I hear wolves howling or elk bugling, I feel like I am the luckiest person in the world to be a…
GOP opposes deficits
In August of 2020, we wrote an opinion opposing Modern Monetary Theory (or MMT, the “too good to be true” idea that the federal government can spend unlimited amounts of money, regardless of revenue, in order to be…
Otter songs
It was New Year’s Eve and there was no around. The first night of clear skies since I don’t know when. Clear means cold in Glacier on the last day of December and it was that, about 4 below, but no wind.
Reject extremism
In the mid-1980s while analyzing leadership change in Latin America I was made aware that many office holders receive death threats. Something that I’d never heard of in the U.S. The last several years have shown m…
Benches, gone to the dogs?
So the other day I had to drop a rig off at the shop and the shop is up in Columbia Heights. (Lauria Racing and Repair, a shop I highly recommend). At any rate, I didn’t have a ride home so I walked back to the hou…
Thoughts on a variance
Since homestead days North Fork winters have been the time for discussing and arguing the big issues of the day and sometimes minor issues too. I remember Ella Wurtz and Lena Holcomb having a long feud over a packa…
On the mend
For the first time since I was 10 years old, it has been months since I have been on the North Fork. I have been gathering material for future columns on tickets to enter Glacier Park, variances requested to the l…