Columns
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Unchained melody
The woman started talking before I even got close enough to hear her.
North Fork offers self-isolation wisdom
At the risk of this column reading like a journal entry or to even appear that I know what I’m talking about, here it goes. These past few weeks I’ve been reading through the archives of the North Fork re-imagini...
This too shall pass
I am not a lawyer, a doctor, or a high-ranking politician so I have no idea whether or not the near panic over coronavirus is justified or not. Since there is no vaccine or known effective treatment it does seem...
Changing tech, consistent dedication
I really enjoyed the column Flannery wrote last week about North Valley Search and Rescue training on the North Fork. In addition to being a North Forker, Flannery is also a new member of North Valley Search and...
The bare management bill
A classic G. George Ostrom Column from 1989...
The new neighbor
I knocked on the window twice.
North Fork SAR expertise
The skies were abuzz in the North Fork this past weekend. North Valley Search and Rescue members gathered at the Ogle’s for the first field training up this way in a while. Mark Heaphy could not have executed it...
Dime-a-Dozen millionaires
A classic G. George Ostrom Column from 2004...
When women were Republicans
Women were once Republicans. In this centennial year of women’s suffrage, it is interesting to see what a difference a century can make.
Thoughts on Moose
Last week I was mostly whining about how the land management agencies are prone to “kicking the can” down the road. In my opinion, that is the practice of high level politicians and land management agencies that ...
Leftover Madness
A classic G. George Ostrom Column from 1998...
Frolicking in Glacier
A classic G. George Ostrom column from 2000...
Kicking the can down the road
It is hard for me to imagine that we have been holding Interlocal meetings for thirty years. Before the Interlocal there was real animosity between local residents and the government land management agencies – e...
Reading to the Kids
A Classic G. George Ostrom column from 2002...
Winter Fun in the North Fork
While it is certainly more work to spend the winter on the North Fork – packing wood, shoveling snow, blowing/plowing snow, keeping fires going and trying to outguess road conditions – we also have activities tha...