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Portrait project helps families get captured on film
If a picture is worth a thousand words, a free holiday program offered by Montana State University photography students recently spoke volumes.
The students in an advanced lighting class taught by Alexis Pike, MSU professor of photography, professionally photographed 43 families who might not otherwise been able to afford the studio sessions in the third annual MSU Portrait Day held in early December. |
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Rebecca Farm's Halt Cancer at X helps fund cancer research
The sounds of horse and rider at the event at rebecca farm may soon start saving lives.
Rebecca Farm recently awarded $65,000 to national and local organizations in the fight against breast cancer. The money was raised during the "Halt Cancer at X" fund raiser that was launched at the 2012 Event at Rebecca Farm, an equestrian triathlon that attracts 500 competitors and thousands of spectators every July in Kalispell, Montana. |
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Preserving the gene pool of the Pryor Mountain wild horses
If the mustang population at the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range were to ever die catastrophically, the horses’ gene pool and Spanish heritage would not be lost thanks to the efforts of the Pryor Mountain Mustang Breeders Association. The group formed on April 7, 1992 with the mission to preserve the wild herd’s genetics.
The group adopted its first horses from the wild herd population during one of the Bureau of Land Management’s round-ups, which have been used to manage the herd’s growth. The group closely follows the ancestry of its animals to prevent inbreeding, says Dale Hartman, owner of the Double D Ranch in Lovell, Wyo., where the breeding horses live. Hartman keeps a few mares born as a result of the breeder association’s efforts if the horse’s conformation displays desired Colonial Spanish American lineage characteristics, such as heavy bone structure, convex or concave heads and a low croup. |
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Hellgate High students unveil anti-meth artwork
Missoula, MT—November 21, 2012—To commemorate National Meth Awareness Day, students at Hellgate High School will create a mural to help spread the word about the risks of using methamphetamine. Hellgate students and members of the Montana Meth Project Teen Advisory Council will put the finishing touches on the new mural at an event at the school on Thursday, November 29. The mural was designed by local graffiti artist Alex Regnier, a Hellgate graduate from 2011. |
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Montana researchers develop six new strategies for battling illness
Researchers at Montana State University have developed six new biotechnologies that have implications for battling bacterial infections and boosting vaccine efficacy, baking a better loaf of bread, detecting harmful microbes, preventing brucellosis, fighting neurological and inflammatory diseases, and developing bacterial vaccines. |
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Tour offered at Smurfit Stone cleanup site in Frenchtown
Join the Clark Fork Coalition and Peter Nielsen of the Missoula Water Quality District for a lunch de-brief on Wednesday, November 14, from 12-1pm at 310 W. Alder St., and learn more about how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Missoula County, and local agencies plan to clean up toxic chemicals found at the shuttered Smurfit-Stone pulp mill just west of Missoula. Participants can learn more about the history of the site and its impacts on the Clark Fork River over the decades, and find out how to support a comprehensive cleanup at this riverside property. |
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