My friend Heather's photo, posted on facebook today....it took me a minute to see what was funny
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Saturday, November 3, 2012
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Saturday, September 8, 2012
I'm ridiculously excited about this ebay purchase. I've been looking for these shoes for years. I bought my first pair of these sometime around 1997 and with one re-sole they lasted until the toes got heat damaged about ten years later. I've not really found a suitable replacement yet. My current boots make my toes numb when I'm not walking, and just Thursday, as I was gearing up at work at a trailhead, I was lamenting my...
Friday, September 7, 2012
This is quite worth diverting yourself with. I've liked this author's photos and writing over time (and I'm not just saying that because the author/photographer put my daughter in the paper, nor because he wrote a great article about Westana, nor because I liked his article on our bear ranger program a few years ago--although I was out of town for the story with my daughter in it, so I'd have otherwise only seen my husband's photo text of her school event). In this case, its his photography. There are certainly photos in this...
Monday, July 30, 2012
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Saturday, July 28, 2012
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Friday, July 27, 2012
This is Heather and her kids in a photo in the Missoulian with a well written article about her encounter.
Below is a link to Heather on the news.
http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/Mother-recounts-close-call-with-mountain-lion/-/14594602/15775552/-/12nuhprz/-/index.html
The other news link is here, but without video.
http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/Mountain-lion-stalks-4-year-old-at-campground/-/14594602/15729100/-/5vajm8/-/index.html
She...
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Automated Bear trap by Alter Enterprise
These links are worth reading if you are interested in grizzly policy and/or in cooperative grizzly bear conservation efforts (of the more community/grass roots but still agency-involved variety). Obviously both ends of this picture are necessary for successful conservation of any species, especially the species with a lot of 'charisma'.
Side note: If you are involved in wildlife biology or spend...
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
I know I can't remember all of today's funnies from Christopher (age six) and I wasn't even with him all day.
But here are a few.
In our canoe on a lake today (the kids were helping me with something loon related for work), heading back to a landmark we were headed to, my daughter asked where it was because we couldn't see it yet. Christopher says, "don't worry, we can google it"
Throughout the canoe ride (3 hours in the rain), he was in charge of the bug spray, and kept offering it around by asking, "anybody want a peanut?"
Then, as...
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Mountain Lions Have Killed 2 Wolves Since January
(KECI photo from article)
"LOLO, Mont. -- An encounter between a mountain lion and a radio collared wolf left the wolf dead and its carcass mostly consumed. Since January of this year, mountain lions have killed two radio collared wolves. The most recent kill was just discovered just last week...
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Link to Flathead Beacon Article: Massive Bighorn Sheep Found on Wildhorse Island
The fourth-largest bighorn sheep skull on record in Montana will be put on display next fall at the Montana, Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 1 office in Kalispell. - Justin Franz/Flathead Beacon
By Dillon Tabish, 05-26-12
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
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I was busy at our local Family Forestry Expo this past Saturday, which fell on the same day as Loon Day (an annual census of breeding lakes in western Montana, coordinated by the Montana Common Loon Working Group, supported by the Montana Loon Society). So I had to get to some of my lakes on Mother's Day, instead; it was a long but fun and sunny work day for me and the kids.
We (the area coordinators from multiple state and federal agencies)...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Christopher (six years old) sounds out words as he walks around the house these days, and today he was up first. I was still in bed while he ate cereal. He'd asked me to help him swap the wheels out on the 3-inch-long die cast trick bike we bought yesterday at the dollar store (it comes with tiny tools and interchangeable parts....I've wanted one since they came out....can't really explain why).
At about the right time for him to have finished his cereal, I heard the following as he rounded the corner into my room.
"Nec-e-s-ary.....necessary,...
Friday, April 13, 2012
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
First off, if you were looking for up to date Save Westana information, go to our facebook page and our blog (Save Westana Girlscout Camp).....here you will only find my own blogging.
But, if you are here on purpose...holy cow, what a week! A week ago tonight, we were sitting around a table at a leader meeting talking about what we could do to save Westana. We were thinking initially about ways to get the word out to troops and parents to send letter to council in answer to their letter to members soliciting feedback due to a notice...
Friday, March 23, 2012
Winter campout Feb 2011, many more photos
to come of our Westana adventures
Grassroots effort begins.....we, the leaders of the troops of Columbia Falls want to figure out what it will take to save our camp, then make it happen!
Our facebook page is bare bones so far, but it's never to early to "like" it and check back and share it as it grows.
http://www.facebook.com/SaveWestana
Also, here is a link, so far, to the letter/notice of the increase...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
A few brief notes on the original video, but there's no reason to get too serious about it, in my opinion:
Aside from her conceptual blind spot, she is clearly not unintelligent given that her alternate methods of calculation came to within 2 minutes of the answer
She seems like a sweetheart
Her husband seems like overall a nice guy who cares about her
I would be SO PISSED at him for the way that he taped it and for posting it!!!!
This is a funny video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=OdYTj5CChaA
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
Facebook is a great tool for generating awareness and support for non-profit organization and for wildlife issues, in addition to fostering more general support and 'good will'. Consider taking a minute to add a 'like' to these pages and sharing them around.
Montana Loon Society
"Montana has the largest population of common loons in the northwest continental U.S. with only about 200 birds. The Montana Loon Society has worked...
Thursday, January 19, 2012
These are the links from blimp:
Dan Rather documentary clip: Sharkfinning part 1
Dan Rather documentary clip: Sharkfinning part 2
Dan Rather documentary clip: Sharkfinning part 3
There are various clips on Youtube as well. While I feel that in some instances "shock-footage" can inspire distortion of issues and acceptance of sound bites as fact (in place of data or at least comprehensive evaluation of credible information), I also feel that there are some things you just can't grasp without seeing. I don't know where the film...
Sunday, January 8, 2012
From the Washington Post article:
"Mark Spalding, president of the Ocean Foundation, said that people on both sides of the debate need to acknowledge that the United States is facing the sort of transformational moment in fishing that it did a half-century ago in forestry. Until the mid-1960s, the government allowed loggers unfettered access to public lands, he said."
Washington post article: 2012 Catch limits for all speci...
Saturday, January 7, 2012
So far I've tried the popcorn and the egg carton. I saw the egg carton on a shopping channel while flipping channels the other day and already have a bunch of ornaments stored that way that I didn't previously have a solution for. The popcorn I just had to try when I saw the email, so I grabbed a couple of small handfuls for 2 minutes and it turned out perfect.
Hull strawberries easily using a straw.
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Friday, January 6, 2012
Missing dog found four days after Montana avalanche
Cooke City is such a beautiful place, with some amazing people and big hearts, but a sad place, too.
Two years ago campers were killed in a nearby campground by a grizzly bear that had previously recieved a food reward.
When I lived there, a long time resident, a restaurant cook and 'town protector' of sorts, told me where he wanted his ashes spread before my friend Jenny and I went back...
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