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We parked our Model As in October And couldn't drive them until May Horses and wagons took their place The Old Condon Highway was all we had to travel on With snow up to the horse's shoulders Almost a century ago Sleigh riding parties All the people in the world seemed to be there But there were maybe five families On 27 Hill Deer hide was the way to go Pots of chili and Mrs. Hulett's big barrel heater Almost a century ago Mom washed our clothes every Monday With water we hauled from the Swan...
SEELEY LAKE - Makerspace is a time for Seeley Lake Elementary (SLE) kids to unleash their creativity. Makerspace is an activity before school, 7-7:55 a.m. This is an activity in the 21st Century Program. Computer lab teacher Mrs. Holmes is the one who runs Makerspace. In Makerspace kids make a lot of cool things that take a lot of time. Their names are Bethany Hoag, Chase Haines and Kyle Contreras. Kyle made a Paracord Bracelet. Kyle said, "I am making this bracelet just for fun." Bethany...
SEELEY LAKE - Students of Seeley Lake Elementary (SLE) run for Student Government each year, and this year may be the best yet. Twelve students ran, and it was astonishing to see how prepared and enthusiastic they were in their speeches and campaigns. I've never seen such outgoing candidates as they sat waiting their turn. Students talked about how they wanted to finish the rock wall, repair the playground, provide more reading time to students and give Junior High back their recess. SLE...
4-H was created to empower young people and to give them the tools to grow in their individual strengths. But many people still ask, "Why join 4-H? What's so great about it?" The benefits 4-H can have for young people are vast and different for each individual member. As the 4-H pledge says, all it takes is your heart, head, hands and health. As soon as I reached second grade, which is the grade level a student must be to join, I became a Cloverbud. I entered baked goods and school art...
Jack and Belinda Rich currently run the Rich Ranch in Seeley Lake, Mont. with family and friends. The Rich family have shared their love for rural culture in Montana's outdoors for more than 40 years. Being in the middle of a technology revolution, the use of modern devices is being used, even in rural Montana on a dude ranch near Seeley Lake. The evolution of technology is undeniable and is even influencing the backcountry. Rich states, "Technology is not an enemy; it is helping more than...
The excitement the weeks before the temptation to run screaming fearing you'll explode from the anticipation daydreaming of warm weather and sandy beaches hoping to get a tan even though pale skin won′t let you the countless hours spent up at night thinking of what you'll need you're vibrating with excitement jumping with joy your time waiting is almost up! eyes peeled open all night you repeat in your head spring break's almost here, spring break's almost here for two weeks you're free! no b...
To this day, thousands of babies are in a "live or die" situation, in which their mothers decide whether or not to keep them or to terminate them without even knowing them. If you were a woman and you were to get pregnant, would you keep the baby? Give him or her up for adoption? Or abort? The Pro-Life group argues that even though the baby is in the mother's body and she has rights, the baby does as well. The Pro-Choice side argues that since the baby is living in the mother's body, she has...
by Kaelin Reiley Seeley-Swan High School Grade 12 I. Night Run Settin' up with the setting sun. Pull the snowhook as darkness descends. Unable to see anything beyond the halo of your headlamp; The dogs' breath coming back to you in little puffs. The thrill of the run amplified by the all encompassing night. II. Frostbite and Other Ailments Get done with a fifty mile training run and find that every part of your body aches and there's a chill down to your bones. Put the dogs up and give them...
In the gloom of late winter, I sometimes glimpse, the fleeting form of a will-o-the-wisp. I turn to follow my Destiny, to know what it is I'm to do I wish to find my Fate, to learn what is in store for me. But, the wisp becomes a snowflake. A vision of white, to be lost in a white-washed world....
Ever since I entered high school, I have had the major goal to graduate and go to college. My dad always says, "The time will come when you grow up, and you'll have to decide what you want to do in college." Now I'm a junior and it's creeping around the corner. In order to attend college, I have to take either the ACT or the SAT. But leading up to those tests, are other standardized tests. All these tests are part of the path that will help get one into a good college, so why go to four years of...
SEELEY LAKE - Seems with everything these days money is always a factor. It mostly is everyone's first priority but why won't that change? For the sake of the environment and ourselves, why can't money be our last priority? Seeley Lake isn't getting any smaller and no one in town that I know of would want our lakes and rivers to become unsanitary for recreational sports and for the animals that depend on them. Not many people think about where our waste goes and not very many people would think...
Remember when you were 18, finally becoming the adult that your parents expected you to be. Remember the good times with friends, staying out late, having a few drinks now and then. Wasn't it great? Now, as an adult, you have children of your own. They're growing up to be like you; staying out late with friends and having the best time of their lives. But they're not having as much fun as you used to because they're too young to drink alcohol. Think about this, boys at the age of 18 are being...
When you hear the word wolf what is the first thing that comes to mind? A voracious killer that will kill you just to see you die? Or, a cute, harmless dog that resembles your family pet? Or a mammal like all of us trying just to survive on this land, where certain groups of people want them eradicated? Wolves need to be kept in our ecosystem for generations to come and not go back to the times where the massive eradication of wolves was not only accepted, but encouraged by the federal...
For as long as humanity has built scattered civilizations all around the world, the wolf has been portrayed as the enemy of this progress. And, in some ways, this was true. Wolves and humans had clashed in every way conceivable: by competing for prey, combating for the safety of livestock and keeping one another at bay. Wolves have acted as a barrier between what belonged to the land and what belonged to mankind. Then why, in these modern times where humans have breached into every imaginable...
I. Last Day No assignments, nothing to do, but sit and watch the hours tick by. The energy is almost tangible. Every nerve firing off simultaneously. Everybody day-dreaming about long summer nights. Thoughts of school Far from consciousness. II. The Reality of Summer School gets out and you dream of parties and relaxation. Then, two weeks go by and reality hits; chores, work, and sunlight until 9:30. No time for more than two or three parties and no time to relax. That's when you wish it was...
The Rapid Forest Assessment (RFA) in the Auggie fuel treatment area near the Morrell Creek Ski Trails in Seeley Lake, Mont. will assist everyone in knowing what is in our forests. A control plot is an area of land in the forest that has not been logged. A treatment plot is an area that has been logged. The Auggie fuel treatment is an area logged one year ago in order to improve forest health and reduce the fuels for a fire. To determine if the Auggie fuel treatment worked in the treated areas we...
I'm going to compare and contrast the differences and similarities between the Auggie forest controlled and treatment areas. Things that may differ or be the same will be the fuel loads, ground cover, horizontal cover, the types and amount of trees in the area and the coarse woody debris. To start, our group looked at the ground cover of the controlled area. Litter and woody debris mostly covered the ground. Whereas in the treatment areas the ground mostly consisted of woody debris. The ground...
In 2014 the Auggie Forest, situated near the Seeley Lake Nordic Ski Trails in Seeley Lake, Mont., was logged in multiple areas. The areas, acres long, had trees felled and the beautiful forests were reduced to vacant fields resembling more meadows than a wooded location. The forest was logged in order to reduce the possibility of fire spreading to, or starting near, the Seeley Lake surrounding woods, making the area safer for human habitation. However, the resulted logging of the forest...
Silence of another snowy slow-going evening. Fog pouring off the lake, slinking away, Staying lower than my knees, Revealing a perfectly flat mirror of water. Reflecting a stillness onto the steep mountain walls surrounding it. As a gray tint floods this isolated lake. Dark clouds gather overhead. Without warning, Without sound, Larger snowflakes fall, Slowly drifting down from the heavens. Their movement stolen from them as they touch the glassy surface of Marshall Lake. Like the hope of...
