Lolo Forest finalizes Petty Creek logging project
he Lolo National Forest is moving forward with logging and prescribed burns in the Petty Creek drainage, although public comment prompted some parts of the project to be reduced.
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Viewpoint: Unity in 'hands off Holland lake' lobby
Jacole Johnson writes, "You’ve created a movement of folks who will fight to ensure the public land at Holland Lake can be enjoyed by generations of Montanans to come."
Tillamook Forest Center reopens for tours after three-years
Oregon’s Tillamook Forest Center had a chilly but chipper start to its grand reopening on St. Patrick’s Day after a 3-year hiatus spurred by the pandemic.
Harmon’s Histories: Blue Mountain Recreation Area boasts explosive past
By Jim Harmon/Missoula Current
A Missoula Current reader recently asked, “Has there ever been a story about the Blue Mountain Trailhead south of Missoula? We hike there a lot and know that it was part of a ranch and then the Army? Used it for a range?”
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Harmon’s Histories: Sex Peak Lookout a hidden, albeit infamous, gem of NW Montana
It was located right in my backyard – where I grew up – yet, I'd neither heard of it nor the story associated with it. Following the devastating forest fires of 1910 (the "Big Burn"), mountaintop lookouts were established as an early warning system. One of them, in the Kootenai National Forest (my backyard, as I grew up in Libby), acquired a rather infamous name in the 1960s: Sex Peak Lookout.