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Rough Cut Lumber
Harvested as part of thinning to reduce fire danger.
$0.75 per board foot.
Call Mike (406-882-4835) or Sam (406-882-4597)
“Experience keeps a dear school but fools will learn in no other”
-Benjamin Franklin
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Alumni Magazines
I regularly get two alumni magazines. Montana State and South Dakota State. I didn’t pay much attention to MSU’s Collegian until 2005 – Barbra Hunter Mullen had been the contact who kept in contact with most of the folks I knew as an undergraduate, and that year an aneurism moved her into the majority – Read more
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Smoke
As I wake and head for the antihistamines, I remember Wylie Osler’s story about Dr. Schroeder writing a prescription for him to go to Spokane and spend the weekend in an airconditioned motel. I was never sure whether the prescription was for health insurance, or just to qualify the trip as a medical expense – Read more
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Use Enough Gun
I think it was Robert Ruark who coined that phrase. Most occasions where I needed to follow that advice, I’ve had a 22 – which the experts do not classify as enough gun. Whether it’s defense against bears, or against human predators, the experts generally start with a recommendation of using a caliber that starts Read more
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Watching Predators and Prey
Off and on, I’ve been watching the interplay between predator and prey on this place for 65 year. In 1960, and through the mid-seventies, the hay field had a serious gopher (Columbia Ground Squirrel) population. A lot of the farm activities fell in my realm as I entered the teenage years – I recall poisoning Read more
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A Few More Charts
CMBS is the abbreviation for Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities: Read more
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Trego History – 1945 to 1965 Modernizing The Community
Around 1945, the Edna Creek School closed. The period between 1945 and 1960 saw Trego reduced from four schools – Swamp Creek, Edna Creek and Stryker closed, leaving District 53 with only Trego School. The technologic transition that consolidated the bantam community’s schools was gravel. The original roads were dirt – but in the Forties Read more
Trego's Mountain Ear 