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-Benjamin Franklin
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Game Camera: Sandhill Cranes
Perhaps you’ve heard the distinctive call of the sandhill cranes recently? -Patches We’re actually in at the very south edge of the breeding range for Sandhill Cranes. They’re not particularly picky eaters- they’ll eat snakes, frogs, insects, seeds… Often, we’ll see them in the spring, hunting frogs in shallow water. Read more
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Lincoln Electric Held Annual Meeting
Saturday, Lincoln Electric Coop held their annual meeting as a drive-in meeting at Lincoln County High School. As with last year’s meeting, it was drive-in, with attendees tuning their radios to listen in. Unlike last year’s smoke, this year’s meeting was cold, wet, and windy. At 9 am when the meeting started, there were 97 Read more
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Time to Plant Alfalfa
It’s time to plant alfalfa again. I’m pretty sure that I last planted this field when I was in high school, in the mid-sixties, and it has run out. But the world is a different place now, and many new varieties have developed in the past half-century. I like alfalfa – it gets a couple Read more
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Measuring Forest Canopy
I like foresters – they have some fun tools. In grade school, I learned how to use an increment borer to determine a tree’s age and it’s rate of growth. Later, I learned how those tools, coupled with beams in cliff houses and other old dwellings in the American Southwest helped develop the specialized science Read more
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Illegal Meetings- Open Meeting Laws
How to avoid having an illegal meeting? Having read about the recent meeting during which two of the county commissioners and the mayor of Troy (among others) ran afoul of Montana’s Open Meeting Laws, it seems time to consider how not to have an illegal meeting. Montana’s Open Meeting Laws require that “Meeting of Public Read more
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Bear Hibernation Part II
While I was working on black bears in the Yaak for my Masters degree, I had the pleasure of cooperating with Dr. Ralph Nelson from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Nelson was studying hibernation in bears for a variety of human-related reasons, not the least of which was to assist NASA with sending Read more
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