Mar 08 2013
It seems we can’t let a month go by without saying something about the road. Anyway, if you are going to use science to support your position, it’s best to ensure you’re using it properly or you run the risk of annoying an actual scientist. A recent letter to the editor in the Hungry Horse [...]
Feb 11 2013
Brian Peck just submitted the following excellent op-ed to the Daily Inter Lake. It should appear in the paper later this week . . . Recently, the Montana Legislature, in its seemingly infinite lack of wisdom, passed HB 73, a measure to allow more people to kill more wolves more easily, cheaply, and in more [...]
Feb 02 2013
According to an editorial in today’s Flathead Beacon, a bunch of the groups behind the development of the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act are getting cranky about its slow passage through the halls of Congress . . . Yet another year of gridlock has passed. It’s time for our lawmakers to finally come together and pass [...]
Nov 07 2012
Larry talks about the start of hunting season and some recent bear encounters . . . In my neighborhood, Trail Creek, the early snow translated to hunter success. Although I have yet to get my winter’s meat, my close neighbors have harvested two bull elk and at least four whitetail bucks. I don’t know whether [...]
Nov 02 2012
Larry reports on a recent meeting of folks interested in the upcoming revision of the Flathead Forest Plan . . . Updating the Flathead National Forest Plan is almost as much of a controversy as what to do with the North Fork Road. Same thing with the passage of a Montana wilderness bill. Apparently the [...]
Oct 25 2012
Larry talks about the start of hunting season and puts poachers on notice . . . Hunters should be satisfied if not downright ecstatic. The first day of the general hunting season, we had nearly an inch of fresh snow on the ground. The usually wrong weather bureau predicts more of the same for the [...]
Oct 17 2012
Larry spent a few days in Seattle last week, officiating at a fifth-generation, North Fork-connected wedding . . . I spent most of last week in the Seattle area officiating at a wedding. I have had the honor of doing this several times, and this is only the second time I felt it was worthy [...]
Oct 12 2012
And while we’re jumping on the wolverine trapping issue, here is a letter from Bob Nelson, Vice President of the North Fork Preservation Association. It went out the the editors of several regional papers a couple of days ago. The “petition” referenced in his letter has just been pre-empted by yesterday’s lawsuit, but his comments [...]
Oct 10 2012
Larry talks about driving the Inside North Fork Road, which was recently re-opened all the way from the Fish Creek campground to Kintla Lake. I took the same route a few days earlier and it is, indeed, a beautiful drive . . . When I tell people that when I was first on the North [...]
Oct 03 2012
Larry talks about fall activities on the North Fork . . . My lone aspen tree is now adorned with bright yellow leaves, and the larch are beginning to turn gold. Daytime temperatures have remained in the 70s, but frost is common most nights. It’s definitely fall with fall activities. Gardening on the North Fork [...]
