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The View from a Lookout
"Ninemile, Ninemile this is Stark, over."The radio crackled to life on our kitchen table on a hot August night. The voice of Virginia Vincent came over the airwaves in her slow, east-coast drawl."Ninemile, Ninemile this is Stark, over."Since my father worked as a fire control officer for the Forest Service during the summer, there were many summer nights when V... |
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Daredevil Celebration in Butte
Evel Knievel's hometown of Butte, Montana, plays host to the world's greatestcelebration for the World's Greatest Daredevil in the finest fashion.Started in 2002, the three-day event draws thousands of visitors fromall over the world to the Mining City during the last weekend in Julyeach year.Spanky Spangler, Ryan Capes, Trigger Gumm and the Kaptain himself,Robbie Knievel, have all performed headl... |
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Blowing with the Wind
The Harlowton Area Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture will be hosting an Alternative Energy Conference for home and small businesses during the Montana Festival of the Wind June 21, 2009. The conference is designed to provide alternative energy information to individuals as well as to small businesses. A full day's activities are on tap ranging from net-metering to tax credits. The conference w... |
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Saving Places
On a ranch in the Ruby River valley, old cow watering holes have been renovated into glistening trout streams teeming with wildlife.Deer bound behind hedgerows, and pheasants flush from a hunter's pointing dog.When development occurs at ranches sold by Greg Fay, it's usually not in the form of new homes.It's usually in the form of more wildlife.Fay helps property owners improve their properties wi... |
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The Cowboy Way
Each June the tiny community of Custer, Montana, (pop. 145)hosts top ranch hands from around the state as they compete in a contest meantto showcase the skills they use in their everyday ranch work. The Custer Ranch Rodeo, scheduled for June 20 in 2009, isessentially a contest between different ranches, and spectators are welcome toattend the event and watch authentic, modern-day cowbo... |
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One Man's Trash is Another Man's Treasure
Montana Fish, Wildlife & ParksStatewide Information Officer Pickingup micro-trash-candy wrappers, bottle caps, sales slips etc.-is one of the lessglamorous tasks of a Montana State Park manager, but once in a while thismenial task comes with an unexpected reward.Ryan Sokoloski,manager of Makoshika State Park nea... |
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Angie Lipski: A Montana Designing Woman
For anyone who has mistaken a building for four walls, a roof, and a foundation, it's worth talking to Angie Lipski, one of Missoula's leading ladies in architecture."Everyone wants architecture to be a science, but it's an art," Lipski says. "It is an art with some scientific layers to it. I think it's part of this whole soulfulness, this ... |
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Rappold's support conservation on Rocky Mountain Front
Karl Rappold has seen a lot of big grizzly bears this summer on his ranch along the Rocky Mountain Front. An 850-pound bear wildlife officials believe is the largest bear ever captured south of the Canadian border was hanging out there, and a grizzly sow with yearling cubs have also frequented the ranch. |
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This Montana Life: Sounds of Music at Flathead Lake music camp
Every year for two weeks, a small bay on the west shore of Flathead Lake is filled with the sounds of music.In a large wood-frame chapel at the Methodist church camp in Rollins, 50 high school music students from around Montana file into their seats. They take their places, adjust their music stands, and after a quick warmup and instructions from director Ron Predl, they launch into a melancholy rendition of "American Elegy," a tribute to students killed in the Columbine High School massacre. The song, with its soft trumpet notes that resemble taps, floats out of the chapel over the lake, where a pleasure boat slowly chugs past. |
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