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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

  • Life Expectancy Reported Down, with multiple reasons

    I’ve seen another release about the US life expectancy dropping a year during 2020 – but this one didn’t credit Covid exclusively.  It pointed out that the US Life expectancy has been dropping for several years due to an increase in drug overdoses and suicides.  Please remember – causality is inferred, not statistically proven. Covid, Read more

  • The Excess Death Data is Available from the CDC

    The Excess Death Data is Available from the CDC

    The Center for Disease Control has compiled and released the excess death data for 2020 that gives us a better handle on Covid.  The first charts give a bit of a handle on what was happening: There are a couple of interesting conclusions – first is that about a third of the excess deaths are Read more

  • A Curfew for Men

    I was reading about a proposal for a curfew for men in London.  It seems that the women of London would feel safer, more secure, if there were a curfew that kept men off the streets. I have some slight experience with this sort of thing.  We have to go back 40 years and more, Read more

  • Race and Physical Anthropology

    I start from the sociological perspective – race is a social construct.  Years ago, in one class or another, I learned that “There is more difference within a race than between races.”  As I recollect, about 250 years ago, a grad student, working on his dissertation, examined and classified 60 skulls and moved the concept Read more

  • Trego School-More About the Building

    Trego School-More About the Building

    Since the state was kind enough to go through every K12 school in the state (back in 2008) and evaluate the condition of the buildings, there’s a fair bit of information to play with. The general facts- as taken from the Facilities Condition Inventory. Building Year Constructed (according to the state’s report) Deficiency Ratio Renewal Read more

  • Backroads of Montana films at Tobacco Valley Historical Village

    The filming was for a 15 minute segment of Backroads of Montana that is expected to air in mid-May.  Watch the Historical Village Facebook page for exact information when the PBS segment will air.  A special thanks to Rita Collins for serving as the Village’s media liaison and secretary. Friday March 12, Ray Ekness of Read more