From the Tuesday, August 25, 2008 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .

A man wanted in connection to a string of burglaries to cabins in Moose City was arrested Friday after apparently spending almost a week in the wilderness along the U.S.-Canadian border.

John Paul Lynn, 44, is accused of breaking into several cabins and shooting at the long-closed Trail Creek border station, north of Polebridge.

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From the Tuesday, August 26, 2008 online edition of the Flathead Beacon . . .

Flathead County commissioners voted last week on two contentious policy issues stemming from a Montana Supreme Court ruling last January over a West Valley community group and a West Valley gravel pit.

The commission voted 2-1 to approve a zoning text amendment that states all neighborhood plans are non-regulatory.

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From the Tuesday, August 19, 2008 online edition of the Daily Inter Lake . . .

Flathead County commissioners will adopt next fiscal year’s budget in early September, and it’s a safe bet that there won’t be money earmarked for paving gravel roads.

“The commission hasn’t changed any direction,” Public Works Director David Prunty said. “No new paving.”

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From the Sunday, August 17, 2008 online edition of the Missoulian . . .

These mountains have always been old, weighed heavy with age and rooted in deep time, the kind of place where you can heft a handful of early, early earth and wonder at the world before.

Rippled rock at 10,000 feet is sediment laid down 1.6 billion years ago, the oldest rock there is, Proterozoic history heaved up some 170 million years back when the Rocky Mountains pushed skyward. A sheet of stone three miles thick and 160 miles long crashed eastward then, advancing 50 miles and folding old rock over new, creating the block from which vast chisels of ice would carve what we now know as Glacier National Park.

“That’s what people have always come to see in the park,” Leigh Welling said. “They came to look into the past, to see something pristine. To me, the park’s first century was defined by a certain stability.”

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From the Sunday, August 17, 2008 online edition of the Missoulian . . .

Ever wonder what a bear really does in the woods?

Scientists finally are answering that question, thanks to some high-tech cameras hooked to an equally high-tech Internet uplink. More important, the solar-powered remote sensors also are helping biologists to catch just the bear they want, when they want.

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From the Wednesday, August 13, 2008 online edition of the Flathead Beacon . . .

As the United States suffers from ongoing wars and a wheezing economy, the nation’s political establishment remains transfixed by such trivial presidential issues as proper tire inflation, John McCain’s $520 Italian loafers and whether Barack Obama is too skinny. It’s enough to make Peter Moore’s campaign for the presidency look downright serious.

“I’m your apolitical presidential candidate,” Moore said on a recent morning, sipping coffee on the front porch of his cabin, looking out at Glacier Park’s Livingston Range. “We give people an option to the mainstream thing.”

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