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RegiOnaL foreST JoBS and reCreaTion aCT SHeLved unTiL SPring SeSSion By Emily Stifler On December 16 at midnight, the U.S. Congress essentially killed the Omnibus Appropriations Bill. Montana Senator Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act was part of this bill. Tester spokesman Aaron Murphy says, “Partisan politics shot down this measure, but it won’t keep Jon from creating Montana jobs—through middle-class tax relief, strengthening family agriculture and small businesses, and working together with Montanans on bipartisan plans like his forest jobs bill.” Murphy says a debate over earmarks stopped the Omnibus bill, which would have funded the government gardiner and THe ParadiSe vaLLey A Marine stationed in Afghanistan is requesting school supplies to donate to three schools in his district. Drop supplies off at the Food Farm or the Gardiner School. 6 December 24, 2010 for the upcoming year. Going forward, the federal government will rely on temporary funding. Tester first introduced this controversial bill in July of 2009 and adjusted the bill after 11 public listening sessions with Montanans. The new version is renamed the Montana Forest Jobs and Restoration Pilot Initiative and would affect communities and wild lands in Southwest Montana. Its programs would preserve key wildlife habitat adjacent to the Lee Metcalf and Snowcrest wilderness areas. The bill would also maintain recreational use in certain areas requested by snowmobilers and mountain bikers, such as Mcatee Basin south of Big Sky and 5,000 acres in the Tobacco The Gardiner/Mammoth crosscountry ski team will begin practices the first week of January. The team is open to 4th-12th grade students in the area. $50 for the season includes wax and instructions. Call Doug Madsen (307) 344-6511 for more information. HAVE FUN/ GO FAST! The Mammoth Community Center will be hosting Winter Wednesday Potlucks through March 30, ORGANIC COFFEE, ESPRESSO AND TEA OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 6:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. LOCATION - IN FRONT OF EXXON ON HWY 191, 1/4 MI. SOUTH OF BIG SKY TURNOFF Roots. In addition, it would mandate the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest to conduct annual landscape restoration projects to reduce forest fuels near communities, provide jobs and restore damaged streams and trout fisheries. If implemented, these laws would leave most of this land on the Madison Ranger District under the same management as it is now, says John Gatchell, Conservation Director for the Montana Wilderness Association. Certain historic use would also remain the same: trail access in the Lee Metcalf at Cowboys’ Heaven and in the East Pioneers, sheep trailing across the Snowcrest Range, access to water infrastructure for irrigators in wilderness areas designated 2011. Join each Wednesday (Except 12/15) from 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Bring a dish to share and your own place settings. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is competing for $250,000 in the Pepsi Refresh contest. Support a Gardiner Baby by voting at refresheverything.com. You can vote daily on the website, on Facebook, and by texting 102534 to Pepsi (73774) through December 31. mSu Bozeman This past July, Chad Diehl, an MSU history major (’03), published Raft of Corpses, a book of translated poems written by a survivor of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. During his undergrad, Diehl won a Fulbright Fellowship to spend a year studying in Japan. He was later awarded funding for graduate studies at Columbia University in New York and is now completing his doctoral work. Diehl grew up in a working class family in Gardiner, Montana, where he played high school football. He told Evelyn Boswell with the MSU news service that he remembers “shooing elk away from the football field and the coach calling a game warden to deal with the more dangerous bison.” Cooke CiTy and yeLLoWSTone Park There is over 60 inches of snow on the ground at 9,000 feet outside of Cooke City. The avalanche center has reported a few nasty persistent weak layers in the snowpack, so be cautious if you’re out skiing, snowmobiling or traveling anywhere in the backcountry. Big Sky Weekly by the bill, and loop roads in the West Big Hole. The bill would also authorize use of federal funds for biomass facilities. Opponents of Tester’s bill lie on both ends of the political spectrum. Environmentalists say it doesn’t include enough wilderness designation. Conservatives say it would restrict motorized use. The bill’s supporters are largely moderate environmental groups and their odd bedfellows: logging companies that would profit from the mandates. With the Omnibus Act shelved, the path forward for the forest bill is unclear. Stay tuned. tester.senate.gov/forest As of December 15, Yellowstone opened most interior park roads to commercially guided snowmobile and snowcoach travel. Limited, managed motorized oversnow travel over groomed, snow-packed park roads will be permitted again this season under the same temporary plan as last year. The plan allows up to 318 commercially guided, Best Available Technology (BAT) snowmobiles, and up to 78 commercially guided snowcoaches a day into the park. The Old Faithful Visitor Education Center also reopened. u of m WeSTern in diLLon The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education recently named University of Montana Western Professor of Education Delena Norris- Tull as 2010 Montana Professor of the Year. This honor was made official at the annual U.S.. Professors of the Year awards ceremonies in Washington, D.C. in November. “This university has been producing remarkable teachers since 1893,” Norris-Tull says. She says Montana Western’s block-scheduling system, Experience One, prepares students by giving them the benefit of studying in an immersion-learning environment. Through this program, students take one class at a time for three hours per day, and are able to focus intensely on a particular subject. WeST yeLLoWSTone The cross-country ski trails are in great shape with a firm base and both classic tracks and skate lanes. The Rendezvous Ski Trails are open seven days a week and are ideal for a holiday ski. The Gallatin National Forest Ava-
lanche Center is offering a two-day avalanche course in West Yellowstone January 1-2. An avalanche rescue beacon and shovel is required. Call 587-6984 or mtavalanche@gmail. com or info@rendezvousskitrails.com for questions or to sign up. A $30 donation to the Friends of the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center is recommended. Now that Yellowstone Park and its trails are open for the winter, West is hoppin’ with snowmobile trails and fun activities. Come on down! THe Big HoLe Get your booty to Lost Trail – it’s been dumping. Total snowfall this year is over 100 inches, and because the hill is closed Monday-Wednesday, powder Thursdays are the real goods. All lifts are open. Nearby, the tiny town of Wisdom (population 115) traces its name back to Lewis and Clark. As they travelled back across the country in July 1806, William Clark and his men crossed Gibbons Pass into the Big Hole Basin. The party camped alongside a river Lewis had named “Wisdom” after BURGERS & BREWS • 100 beers • 100 wines • 12 HDTVs • Full Bar & Menu Open daily at 11:30 a.m. Open mic night every Wednesday at 9:30pm BIG SKY TOWN CENTER big sky, montana (406)995-3830 one of Thomas Jefferson’s character traits. Today, skiers and ranchers live alongside each other here. At 6,000 feet, this remote, wind-blown valley is spectacular in winter. Southwest of town, Homer Young’s Peak climbs to 10,621 feet. karen LoveLeSS iS neW LivingSTonarea WiLdLife BioLogiST Biologist Karen Loveless has worked in Katmai National Park in Alaska. There, she worked as a bear management specialist “keeping brown bears and people separate” on the Brooks River and tributaries. She also conducted an assessment of the harvest level’s effects on the brown bear population. Loveless started her career in Yellowstone National Park working on research projects looking at elk calf mortality and the effects of wolves on elk and willows, ungulate monitoring, and bear management. She has also worked for FWP in the Missoula area, tracking and trapping wolves and assisting with livestock-wolf conflicts. Loveless completed her masters thesis on wolf-prey interactions in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario. This position replaces Tom Lemke, who retired in December 2009. Loveless plans to establish an office in Livingston by early 2011. yeLLoWSTone area reSidenTS and emPLoyeeS aSked To SHare HoLiday memorieS for SToryCorPS The Oral History Collection at Yellowstone National Park contains recordings made by people from all walks of life who have visited the park, or worked or grown up in the area. However, there is very little material in the collection about the holiday season. As in past years, the project is reaching out to current and former area Big Sky Weekly residents and employees, inviting them to share special memories by participating in the “Holidays in Yellowstone” oral history project. People of all ages are welcome to share special holiday memories involving Yellowstone whether it is about a special wildlife sighting, Santa on a snowmobile, or another holiday tradition that involves the Park. Those interested in the project are encouraged to interview friends and family members regarding their favorite Yellowstone holiday memories, and then submit copies of the recordings for consideration to become part of the park’s permanent Oral History Collection. Technical information about recording interviews, and even some sample questions to help you get started, is available on the web through StoryCorps, a non-profit organization working to preserve oral histories on a wide variety of subjects, some of which have aired on National Public Radio. (307) 244-2260 Charissa_Reid@nps.gov storycorps.org Lunch, Apres Ski & Fine Dining TIMBERS - MOONLIGHT LODGE big sky, montana (406)995-7777 Reservations Recommended For Dinner December 24, 2010 7
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