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Commandeering Canada geese: Electric company builds new nest for osprey that lost home to geese

Published on Mon, 04/18/2016 - 2:05pm
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Sometimes a pair of “love birds” needs a little help from their human friends. 

Paradise Valley resident Larry Sellers has watched a pair of osprey nest every year for the past 10 years on a utility pole near his East River Road home. He’s watched a pair of osprey arrive each spring, raise a couple of young, and leave again in the fall.

Sometimes a pair of Canada geese try to nest in the box, but the osprey manage to run them off eventually.

April Showers

Published on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 3:36pm
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Clyde Park residents call fowl over no-chicken ordinance

Published on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 3:11pm
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While horses neigh and sheep bleat, you won’t hear chickens clucking in the town of Clyde Park.

Not yet, anyway.

Some residents are looking to change the town’s rules that currently disallow residents from owning chickens. 

“I think about all the people in town that want chickens,” Clyde Park resident Bob Taylor said. “I think it is a right of freedom.” 

Waters of Yellowstone River muddy, but snowpack at almost normal level

Published on Fri, 04/15/2016 - 2:06pm
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Spring storms have helped preserve area snowpack despite some recent warm days. 

According to the monthly “Montana Water Supply Outlook” produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, the snowpack in the upper Yellowstone River Basin is 94 percent of normal for early April. At this time last year, the upper Yellowstone was at 116 percent of normal. 

Select Yellowstone Park roads open to automobiles on Friday

Published on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 3:01pm

Starting Friday at 8 a.m., the road segments from West Yellowstone and Mammoth Hot Springs to Old Faithful and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone will open for the season, allowing visitors to travel by car to two of the park’s iconic locations.    

From April 16 through April 24, entrance fees to the park will be waived in celebration of National Park Week, a park news release said. The annual celebration honors National Park Service sites and programs in communities nationwide. 

DIARIES OF YORE: Historic journals, photos chronicle nearly every day of Pine Creek man’s adult life from 1916 to 1980

Published on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 2:37pm
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Jotting down the day’s events was a lifelong habit of a man who lived in Paradise Valley in the early years of the 20th century. 

Earl Henson died in 1980, but his family preserved all his small, handwritten journals, which date back as far as 1916 — 64 years of entries. He wrote up until just 10 days before his death, granddaughter Kris Henson-Dunn, of Livingston, said recently.

Truck squirt gun?

Published on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 2:35pm
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Diaries of yore: Historic journals, photos chronicle nearly every day of Pine Creek man’s adult life from 1916 to 1980

Published on Thu, 04/14/2016 - 2:07pm
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Jotting down the day’s events was a lifelong habit of a man who lived in Paradise Valley in the early years of the 20th century. 

Earl Henson died in 1980, but his family preserved all his small, handwritten journals, which date back as far as 1916 — 64 years of entries. He wrote up until just 10 days before his death, granddaughter Kris Henson-Dunn, of Livingston, said recently.

Majority of speakers at meeting oppose delisting grizzlies

Published on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 3:00pm
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A lot of area residents and organizations don’t want to see grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem taken off the Endangered Species List. 

More than 100 people attended a United States Fish and Wildlife Service public hearing Tuesday night in Bozeman to hear testimony from organizations and individuals who came out to provide — in often passionate voices — their opinion on delisting grizzlies. Most speakers were opposed to delisting. 

Good vibes: Park High music assembly focuses on love, kindness and hope

Published on Wed, 04/13/2016 - 2:59pm
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Folksy drumming and the sounds of a harmonica echoed through the Park High School gymnasium Tuesday afternoon, as a cross-country musical duo introduced the students to their brand of peace and love through music.  

Gustaff Besungu and Stevie “Vagabond”  Iwaszko stopped off at the high school on their journey from Key West, Florida, which started several months ago.