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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,…
Cold is cold
It is definitely winter in Columbia Falls, with more and more snow, low temperatures and a cool breeze moving the snow around. It is even more so on the North Fork. Trail Creek, without a doubt, has more snow and l…
Guide helps the Blackfeet
Glacier Adventure Guides owner Greg Fortin recently showed some kindness to the Blackfeet Tribe.
Thoughts on the Interlocal
We are rapidly approaching the Winter Interlocal. It will be held Feb. 21 at Glacier National Park in the Community Building. By now, individuals and private residents should have sent their concerns to Bill Walker…
A grizzly spray memory
If you check the 911 reports in the Daily Inter Lake, or any other state news source, you know it is getting fairly common for a few crooks and some “off center” dingbats to use bear spray for other purposes. It is…
Something to grouse about
I dug the snow out of my ear and wiggled my shoulder back into place and wondered what had happened.
I love you?
Got to talking things over with “First Wife Iris” last week and it came up that we are approaching our 60th anniversary in April. I often tell people the secret of our long marriage is simple. If Iris says “jump,” …
Thanks for the support
We would like to thank the following businesses for their generous donations hosting the divisional wrestling tournament: The Backroom/ Nite Owl Restaurant, Cajun Design, Design Expressions, Domino’s Pizza, Freedom…
Keep Partnership vision intact
There’s a lot of bad news about divisiveness in America. Here’s a local good-news story: Folks with very diverse interests in the Flathead Valley met over a 13-month period, got way past “No!” and achieved a unanim…
Wilkie Hastings
Whenever we have a lot of snow, like now, I always think of Wilkie Hastings. He was an older gentleman (at least to a teenager) who lived in a small cabin, about 8-by-14 feet, on Trail Creek. I snowshoed in to see …
A surprise meeting
It was an accidental get together… certainly not planned, but it turned out all right. Regular readers will recall my column for Jan. 10, just a few weeks back, was a serious criticism of Montana’s newest Congressm…
Critical of Daines
They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results. Yet apparently Steve Daines thinks that a responsible strategy to fund our government is to incessan…
Glacier CIS
I smelled it before I saw it. It wasn’t exactly rotten. Sorta like a steak left out on a counter for awhile.
No wild pets
A rather touching story came out of Seattle last week when a family spent lots of money suing the state to get back their pet raccoon. A judge ruled they broke the law and could not recover their “wild animal.”
Sick of Washington
This column is titled “North Fork Views” because that is where my focus it – on the North Fork of the Flathead. I admit, I am biased and there is no guarantee that I am always right. Right or wrong, my intentions a…
The lynx paradox
This week the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that the Canada lynx was a candidate for delisting from the Endangered Species Act.