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Opinion

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Updated 5 months, 3 weeks ago

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,…

Updated 3 years ago
Back to the Future

My watch doesn’t do much. It doesn’t tell me when to eat, or my heart rate or keep track of my blood sugar or my bowel movements.

Updated 3 years ago
Opposes Chisholm

When someone is getting married in the near future the family sends out “Keep the date” notice. On this same theme I want people to remember somehow, someway the name of the school board member, Dean Chisholm. Th…

Updated 3 years ago
GOP no friend of sportsmen

I am a 68-year-old, retired farmer, fourth generation Montanan, and a lifelong avid hunter, angler, and conservationist with a degree in Wildlife Biology and research experience on large predators.

Updated 3 years ago
Odds and ends

Received a super important email from Cabela’s the other day. Santa will be at the store at

Updated 3 years ago
Uncompromisable issues

Pregnancies and human life are older than recorded time, and so, it follows, are abortions. The procedures by which abortions have been conducted, however, have only very recently in human history been recognized …

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Gassed

So the boy and I were out cutting firewood the other day and I was sawing along and looked up and this guy was standing there wearing a T-shirt and I thought it was odd that the Forest Service would check a permit …

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Weighs in on transportation plan

I only recently was made aware of this planning process and draft plan. And so unfortunately I only have an hour or so to review some highlights and offer some observations.

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Powell, what could have been

My one brief experience with presidential politics occurred in 1995. My candidate was Colin Powell. The great historian, Stephen Ambrose, had emerged as a leader in the movement to win the 1996 Republican presid…

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Time to sell the house

I’ve decided to put my house up for sale. Not because of the red hot housing market, but because I need a set of Leica lenses.

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Mental health isn’t a political issue in schools

eing a kid is tough. Being a kid in school in the middle of a pandemic is tougher.

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Great summer in the Bob

With summer winding down I have had the opportunity to take a look back at the whirlwind summer we have had. The Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation is entering our 25th year and has some great things on the horizon…

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Disgusted by commission

After what was witnessed on Aug. 20th at the Wildlife Commission meeting, I have to say it was nothing less than an assault on our wildlife. I had higher expectations for the commission.

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
One Match

The match lit, I set a small piece of paper on fire, then some birch bark, twigs and had a nice fire going in a few minutes.

Updated 3 years, 2 months ago
Air tour plan needs a time frame

For the last 20 years the Federal Aviation Adminitration has ignored Glacier National Park’s efforts to prohibit commercial overflights.

Updated 3 years, 2 months ago
North Fork nudist

Last week I said I was keeping my eyes open watching for nudists. That was looking to the present and the future. I should have been looking to the past. Forty years or more ago there was a lot of talk about a Nort…