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 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 [...]
Sep 27 2012
Larry responds to yet another op-ed on the North Fork wilderness issue . . . I had never heard of a “liberal conservationist” until that label was applied to me by Matthew Chappell in a recent letter to the editor in the Hungry Horse News. My opposition to a wilderness on the Whitefish Range led [...]
Sep 20 2012
Larry starts off discussing some of the projects proposed to the Resource Advisory Committee and finishes up pointing out that bears can do it, but you can’t — at least not on federal land . . . The Resource Advisory committee (RAC) has been reauthorized for one year. Previous reauthorizations have all been for three [...]
Sep 14 2012
Larry discusses upcoming fall North Fork activities . . . The ground squirrels have withdrawn to their winter quarters, there’s fresh snow on the mountains in Glacier Park, and the lone quaking aspen in my meadow is nearly one-third bright yellow. Also, orange paint is being sprayed on trees up and down the road. There [...]
Sep 06 2012
Larry accepts the Mount Thompson-Seton challenge and discusses the end-of-season wind-down . . . I thoroughly enjoyed the letter last week from fellow North Forker Frank Vitale. I consider him as well as the North Fork Preservation Association a “moderate” environmentalist. Since there seems to be some confusion about the definition of moderate, let me [...]
