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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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Other Vaccine Effectiveness
I got the Covid vaccine as soon as I could. I think I might have been vaccinated earlier but for the manner in which the local government picked folks to vaccinate – I wasn’t sitting by the phone when the call came in, and that healthy, outdoors behavior put me a couple weeks later than Read more
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Amorous Beetles
Much like humans, male jewel beetles are visual creatures. What really gets them in the mood for love is the sight of a female. Or something that looks a lot like a female… Read more
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Measuring Migration
When you work with Census data, migration numbers can be very precise – but the 10 years between each Census often make the data obsolete. As demographers, we had to find ways to work around that – and U-Haul had the websites that let me better understand and explain migration. For example, if I price Read more
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Four-Stresses to Kill a Weed
It’s probably 25 years ago that I sat in class and heard the general rule “It takes four stresses to kill a weed.” By that I figure it takes four stresses to kill any plant – and I’m looking at my little alfalfa seedlings with a lot of sympathy. They have experienced moisture stress. I Read more
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Dumplings for Women
Jeeta Kant and I both did research on Hutterites – as did several others at SDSU. In her Hutterite Community Cookbook, one of the recipes was “Dumplings for Women.” I had meant to ask her the significance of a specific recipe for women’s food – there is also a recipe titled “Waffles for Women.” It Read more
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Wildfire Resources- useful links
This time of the year, it’s hard to tell where the smoke is coming from – there is just so much of it. Given how dry things are, and how thin our resources are spread, it’s good to keep informed. So, where do we go? State Map– helpful to get a quick glance and see Read more
Trego's Mountain Ear 