Feb 15 2012
This week, Larry talks about the Walsh family’s long association with the North Fork . . . Very few of the original homesteader families still have ties to the North Fork, let alone still own land here. Ones that easily come to mind are Huck, Newton, Glover and Holcomb. There is one family with North [...]
Feb 08 2012
Larry’s column provides an “educated guess” preview of the upcoming North Fork Interlocal Agreement meeting . . . The North Fork Interlocal Agreement meeting will be held Feb. 15 at the Glacier National Park Community Hall at Park Headquarters. Host will be Glacier Park, and MC will no doubt be Polebridge District Ranger Scott Emmerich. [...]
Feb 02 2012
in his column this week, Larry talks about winter recreation and the importance of basic survival preparedness . . . I guess it’s human nature to worry about the weather, or at least talk about it. Even so, I can’t help but wonder why people don’t think, talk and worry about things that would save [...]
Jan 25 2012
This week, Larry talks about folk’s penchant to worry about the weather . . . Apparently we humans have an inbred need to worry about something all of the time. In the first week of January, I heard several people comment that they were worried that if it didn’t snow soon, we would have a [...]
Jan 18 2012
Larry does a retrospective on the big issues of last year, including the North Fork Road and successful efforts to terminate resource extraction activities in the transboundary Flathead Valley . . . January is the month when everyone looks back on the previous year to see what the biggest news stories were and to make [...]
Jan 11 2012
This week, Larry wraps up the year-end news and discusses the impending arrival of a group from the University of Montana Geography Department . . . Another holiday season is over. On the North Fork, we had a great Christmas party, a collection of New Year’s Eve gatherings and 30 people gathered on the bank [...]
Jan 05 2012
Larry reports on the North Fork Christmas and New Year festivities . . . Boy, did we have a great Christmas party. Hosts Caldwell and Heaphy must have spent most of a day decorating the hall. There were twinkling lights overhead, brightly decorated tables and counters, and a 10-foot decorated Christmas tree. Even the front [...]
Dec 29 2011
This week, Larry discusses the importance of preparedness when traveling in the backcountry during winter . . . As I write this on the Friday before Christmas, knowing that it won’t be read until after Christmas, I still can’t help but wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. As of today, we [...]
Dec 14 2011
Larry addresses the importance of unity in diversity when it comes to land planning and other broad community issues . . . This week at the invitation of the Swan Valley Community organization, I traveled with Mark Shiltz, Montana Land Reliance staffer, to speak to that community about how the North Fork got involved in [...]
Dec 08 2011
This week, Larry starts off with a few word about North Fork curmudgeons. It’s a subject more appropriate to a short book than a short column, but he pulls it off . . . Earlier in November, it looked like it was going to be a long winter. Snow was getting deeper and deeper, temperatures [...]
