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BY KEELY LARSON connect@lonepeaklookout. com “When I he trail system in Big Sky lays out moved here the veins of the a few years community.T A Master Trails Plan, the heart, if you will, ago, one of was finished in Jan 2019 and provides a blueprint for any the things future trails and a standard for how to maintain current I noticed is ones. Madison County has developed this as a part of there are all their growth plan for the Big Sky portion of Madison these great County and the same idea is in the works in Gallatin trails, short County. This plan includes ones, but 19 miles of non-motorized trails used recreationally and they’re not as means of transportation. Public input was compiled via connected,” surveys at Farmer’s Markets and Music in the Meadow last Natalie summer. Osborne said “These are the most desired trail connections within the community and that’s going to be kind of a Trails Director with Big Sky guiding document as we plan Community Organization the next five to ten years of (BSCO). trail development,” Adam “When I moved here a few Johnson explained, Parks and years ago, one of the things

TRAIL SYSTEM | A2 Taking advantage of the (finally) sunny weather and (mostly) clear skies. PHOTO BY KEELY LARSON

Scott Buecker with AE2S Engineering explains the difference between the two major bids for the district’s The beauty of birding future membrane bioreactor. PHOTO BY JANA BOUNDS Big Sky’s Hummock’s Trail earns distinction of being a birding hotspot

BY JANA BOUNDS often easily distracted, those with whom they [email protected] interact just have to get used to it, he explains with a shrug and a grin. It is currently peak elf-professed bird nerd John Parker breeding season, which means peak birding with the Sacajawea Audubon Society season and “the last hurrah” he says and explains seems continually distracted, but really the flurry of activity will end in another week or his Sfocus is on everything but the humans in two. front of him during the Hike Big Sky Tuesday He notes that a nearby “purdip, purdip” is a hike on July 9. He has his eyes in the sky, focused western tanager, which is tropical and only in on a mated pair of red-tailed hawks “displaying Montana from May until September. They spend for each other” flying in tandem, with relaxed the rest of their time in Central America. The legs, he explained. His ears are turned toward shrubs and forest produce dizzying flashes of the shrubs and trees at the South Fork Loop color and sound as a golden crown kinglet and Trailhead across from Hummocks, which earned a mountain chickadee also visit. Parker spots the distinction of being a birding “hotspot” 19 species within 30 minutes of stopping at the At the heart of clean water of Gallatin County with Cornell University trailhead. Department of Ornithology’s project – eBird. Big Sky Community Organization (BSCO) The online tool for documentation of bird program manager Mackenzie Johnson points to a New technology is a necessary but costly investment sightings turns those sightings into “science and bush and says excitedly, “That’s a yellow warbler!” conservation.” Parker explains how Big Sky has Parker confirms it. Johnson then explains that BY JANA BOUNDS general manager Ron Edwards unique ecosystems that harbor a lot of birds, that knowledge is retained from one of her [email protected] pointed out at the June 18 board “You have to know what’s at which are difficult to find in most parts of the husband’s college courses, when they would go meeting, something called a the heart of the treatment plant United States. hiking for bird identification. s Big Sky County membrane bioreactor is at the in order to design the rest of it,” “Oh, right here, a violet green swallow,” he This and other Hike Big Sky events are Water and Sewer heart of most municipal water Edwards explained. says and turns mid-conversation. Birders are a partnership between Visit Big Sky and ADistrict (BSCWSD) treatment plants. BIRDING | A3 CLEAN WATER | A3

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TRAIL SYSTEM from A1

I noticed is there are all Osborne is grateful to trails specifically. the goal is to obtain a to be a lot of conversation these great trails, short ones, BSCO and the landowners BSCO is working on recreational easement for this between these cells to make but they’re not connected,” of Big Sky that allow her to “These are connecting the Mountain to section that would provide sure everything in the whole Natalie Osborne said, race create 30 and 50 mile courses Meadow trail this summer public access to this spot. organism runs smoothly. director for the Big Sky for her race. Forest Service the most as well. “The connection “Easements are not a fast Osborne works with the Lone Biggie, which will launch its and private land owners’ will assist in preventing user process, but if stuff happened Mountain Ranch to make second year this August. One permission must be gained if desired trail conflicts while providing a to go fast we would look sure her bikers get through of her goals in bringing a the Biggie is to encroach upon fun, safe route all the way at building some trails,” that property before 9 a.m. mountain bike race to Big Sky their backyards. “Everybody connections to town,” the BSCO website Johnson stated when asked when horse tours start. was to show the area that if it in this community is described. All of the specifics, about any extra summer She also checks in with the wanted to be a summer biking extremely supportive,” she within the easements and licenses, are projects. If things fell into Resort to try and negate any destination, it had to have the said, but acknowledges community in place to make this happen, place rather quickly, BSCO collisions with Bike Haul trail system to inspire. misunderstandings. “There’s Johnson added. He also would move forward with pass holders. “We have three bike shops always one or two naysayers. and that’s defined an easement as, “an developing a trail that would “It is a fine-tuned course here. People love riding their People say no to what agreement between a land tie into the South Fork trails as far as how it works with bikes!” exclaimed Osborne. they don’t understand,” going to owner and an organization on Spruce Cone Drive, from timing of other operations, “There were a large number of she reasoned. The general or individual person that Morningstar Learning Center other entities, with weather people who entered (the race) consensus has been positive be kind of allows access across a piece and across Ousel Falls Road, and with traffic. We don’t last year and it was their first in her experience. of property,” which is a huge five feet wide and stroller have a lot of wiggle room and bike race ever,” she continued, “I produce an event, but I a guiding part of trail development in friendly. putting it together was really making note that those people rely on BSCO to tell me what town. Additionally, the Tiger painstakingly hard,” Osborne were residents of Big Sky. trails I can and cannot use. It’s document as Easements can be used for Grant Big Sky received stressed. many facets including public, will allow for a connection Looking at the future of we plan the recreational and utility between the Town Center the trail system in Big Sky, purposes. One easement and the Meadow Village Osborne commented on next five to ten that had to be worked out without involving highway a couple of concerns. She years of trail to complete the Mountain crossing. “This project is explained how there will to Meadow connection in part of the organization’s always be conflicts with development,” involved the Poop Chute. pedestrian safety and horse outfitters, mountain In case one is unfamiliar, connectivity goal in the Big bikers and hikers. Each one Adam Johnson Johnson explained the Poop Sky Trails Master Plan,” the of those groups uses trails in Big Sky, Chute as the section of BSCO website expressed. different ways and sometimes Montanaexplained the trail containing a pipe “Hopefully it will make those ways may negatively LONELONE PEAK PEAK LOOKOUT LOOKOUT underneath, which connects it easier for kids to reach affect a different crowd. Big Sky Resort to the water Kircher Park, too,” Johnson “With our limited miles of BSCO that’s paving the way to treatment plant in the voiced. single track that we have make this possible,” Osborne Meadow. The Poop Chute If trails are the veins, now, if we don’t grow our Established in 1982 explained. The proceeds from never had a public easement, then the people in this town single track network, we’re BIG SKY, MONTANA the Biggie all go to BSCO for so technically it was not are the blood cells bringing going to have a problem,” open to the public. Currently, everything to life. There has Osborne warned. Editor: Cori Koenig Publishers: Susanne Hill & Erin Leonard Advertising/Sales Rep.: Keely Larson, [email protected], 406.465.2937 Reporter: Jana Bounds, [email protected] Staff Writer/Customer Service: Keely Larson [email protected], 406.465.2937 Designer: Erin Leonard

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BIRDING from A1

BSCO, Johnson explains. an estimated $15 billion on The partnership is mutually their trips and $26 billion beneficial – Visit Big Sky has on equipment in 2011. Trip people stopping by all the time expenditures included 52 wanting to go hiking and BSCO percent in food and lodging, 34 wants to highlight BSCO trails. percent in transportation, and “We hear a lot that people 14 percent in other costs such are very scared of bears and as guide fees, user fees, and they want to hike with a group,” equipment rental. she says and explains this gives For more information people the opportunity to learn visit sacajaweaaudubon.org or about the area, local hiking mtaudubon.org trails and feel more comfortable via an introduction with other hikers. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Hike Big Sky initially (PHOTOS BY JANA BOUNDS) began as Hike and Learn and continues to be free to the One of the major tools of the public – visitors and residents trade, a spotting scope, allows for alike. birders to see the nuances in bird Parker says he regrets behavior. not getting into birding until his 30s. He loves that it is John Parker records the birds he something accessible for sees so he can later upload the everyone: Those who can hike data to eBird. John Parker said can hike to find birds. Those most birders keep track of the who are homebound can put birds they see with their phones, birdfeeders in their yards. but he’s old school. “You can do birding anywhere anytime. You can bird John Parker shows Mackenzie in New York City. It’s available Johnson a photo and the to anybody,” he says and information on one of the first notes that the hobby can be as birds to blow his mind – a long challenging as someone wants bill curlew, the largest shore bird to make it. in North America. The resilient little creatures’ incredible migrations – the perpetual drive to survive is something that fascinates him, he says. He appreciates that Montana has some rare woodpeckers: the three-toed and the black back woodpeckers. The black back woodpeckers depend entirely on burn areas. Yet another great mystery of ornithology, Parker points out: How do they find forest fires? “They arrive shortly after a fire,” he says. “They pick under the loose bark for insects. They’re at the fire for those insects, which last three years and then they leave.” As he says goodbye to #HikeBigSky participants and packs up his TUESDAY HIKING SERIES STARTING AT 10 A.M. spotting scope he says he is heading down to the Bacon July 16: History Hike at Crail Ranch Rind fire south of Big Sky on Compare current views with landscape views through Historic 191 to see if he can find any Crail Ranch Museum’s photo archives. Examine fencing from black back woodpeckers. homesteading pasture-land days and learn the stories they tell. Meet Birding is a tremendous at Crail Ranch. tourism driver. What is even more impressive is the revenue July 23: Walk this Way stream coming in from ethical A coach from Lone Peak Performance will guide this hike along Little birders. Theirs is a culture that Willow Way and Black Diamond Trail. Meet in the Big Sky Community emphasizes the avoidance of Park parking lot near the softball fields. disturbing birds, other people and the natural environment, July 30: Hike & Paint according to Montana Fish, Hummocks Trail Wildlife and Parks. Hike to Simkins Overlook where Big Sky artist Heather Rapp will According to a study by lead an on-the-trail painting party. Meet at trailhead. Space is the United States Fish and limited, please RSVP at 406-993-2112 or [email protected] Wildlife Service, birders spent

CLEAN WATER from A1

The near-comic book membrane, so you pull more with chemicals like citric restaurants to maintain their still be impacted, because the for Suez and $1,832,746 for terminology – membrane water out of it. Your flow acid, sodium hydroxide, or grease traps better. Hopefully chemicals utilized to reduce Evoqua,” Buecker explained. bioreactor (MBR) – is rate stays consistent because chlorine. we won’t be dealing with it as phosphorus concentrations Board member Scott actually a complex and costly you have so many membrane “All fouling is not created much as they deal with now.” leave behind sulfate or Wheeler inquired as to which system, which is touted modules in operation at equal – sometimes it’s Further complicating chlorides, which raises company would be the better as being one of the most any given time, but they do biological, sometimes it is treatment at the future the total dissolved solids fit. Evoqua appears to have important innovations in foul,” Scott Buecker project chemical, like scaling, and facility is that based on – “salts” – that go into the budgeted to provide a lot of wastewater treatment by manager with engineering sometimes it is physical,” historical data Big Sky has river, Buecker explained. help, Suez did not. the National Institute of company AE2S explained in Buecker explained. staggeringly high phosphorus While discharge of these “I’m biased, I’m going to Health. “An MBR is a hybrid later conversation. Wastewater treatment in its wastewater, 2-3 times low level salt concentrations want the team that budgeted of a conventional biological Buecker said to picture a operations are constantly greater than what Buecker is less harmful to the for significant support versus treatment system and physical thick, porous white balloon. battling fats, oils and greases usually sees in municipal river than phosphorus, it the team that cut it close,” liquid-solid separation using To the naked eye, the or FOG. These substances can wastewater. The state of would be better to mitigate Buecker said. membrane filtration in membrane looks like a strand cause permanent fouling of a Montana is technically one the phosphate use in the Board member William one system,” a study titled, of rubber. membrane. of around 25 states in the community before it reaches Shropshire said it was an “Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) “The ones we are looking “That gets expensive,” country who have said they the treatment plant. interesting analysis. Technology for Wastewater at for Big Sky are made Buecker said. “You can’t want phosphate free laundry “We just want people “I think this is remarkable Treatment and Reclamation: of PVDF (polyvinylidene run fats oils and greases up detergent. There is no real to get smarter about it that we’re that close,” he said. Membrane Fouling” from difluoride) and are just a against the membranes, or it enforcement mechanism in and maybe look at what Edwards said both the Department of Civil specialty plastic. They hold will foul them and can be very place, so the use of detergents detergent they’re using, and if companies are very reputable. Engineering at the University up well in wastewater in all difficult to remove. When containing phosphate exists contains significant amounts “They’re close enough of Calgary stated. The kinds of conditions, with we use MBRs we try to get in a gray area. Dishwashing of phosphorus, find an to where we can select one membrane has a dirty job. proper care,” he said. all that FOG out upstream, detergent is a different beast, alternative,” he said. or recommend one for “It’s basically putting a The wastewater industry by trapping it and removing especially at the commercial Competitive bidding selection,” he said. really, really, tight membrane characterizes membrane it with skimmers– very level. Phosphate detergents between the primary MBR Wheeler said the closeness down into the soup of fouling as reversible or similar to how the oil and gas are known to produce crystal suppliers resulted in costs in cost is a credit to Buecker. wastewater and microbiology, irreversible. industry deals with it.” clear glass wear, especially for the MBR equipment being “It’s so tight that you and drawing water through “Reversible happens Big Sky currently has when the water is somewhat less than budgeted, however obviously had a tight RFP the membrane while blocking all day, all the time, with oils and fats issues in the hard, he said. there is a difference of nearly (request for proposal),” he solids. So, the membrane will biological, chemical and collection system. “If we can cut down how $170,000 in engineering and said. foul (plug) with everything physical substances,” he “It’s a big issue in any much is in the wastewater, support services or “soft Buecker reiterated that that it is in the soup. The said. The battle to keep the part of the country, but we can cut down on how costs” exists between the the equipment is solid for MBR system uses back- membranes clean is constant in Big Sky I think what is much chemical we have to companies. both companies. He said it pulsing, membrane rests and relies most heavily on happening is that you have throw at it to remove it to However, a detailed will come down to what the and air scouring to fight air scouring, which is just more restaurants proportional extremely low levels,” he said. analysis of the installed board believes will benefit the fouling. Eventually the passing air bubbles across to the number of people Truckloads of the chemicals costs and competitors’ bid them long-term in terms of membranes must be cleaned the surface. Eventually, the that live there, than the needed to adsorb phosphate responses indicate that the support. with acid and sodium membrane will require a CIP, typical community,” he said. will be brought in from overall value of the two lowest hypochlorite (bleach). You’re industry lingo for “cleaning “The District is working elsewhere, which is costly bids is very similar. always working to minimize in place” – a thorough towards a program to better and has an environmental “An evaluation of the or slow the fouling of the cleaning of the membranes monitor that and encourage impact. And the river will bids resulted in $1,807,930 LONE PEAK LOOKOUT A4 July 11, 2019 LONE PEAK LOOKOUT A5 July 11, 2019 LONE PEAK LOOKOUT A6 July 11, 2019

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Submitted by cross-country skiers, snowmobile users, snowmobile grant awards is available sent by mail to Montana State BETSY KIRKEBY, MONTANA The Montana Snowmobile snowboarders, dogsleds, fat- registration fees, non-resident at stateparks.mt.gov under Parks, Snowmobile Program, FISH, WILDLIFE & PARKS Program, as administered tire bikes, and snowshoers. snowmobile temporary use “Recreation Activities & 1420 East 6th Avenue, P.O. Box by Montana State Parks, Funding is provided permits and resident groomed Grants”. Public comment 200701, Helena, MT 59620- Montana State Parks was established in the early annually to 25 local trail passes. The program is will be open for 30 days. 0701. (stateparks.mt.gov) is seeking 1970’s and is an essential snowmobile clubs who separate from Montana State Comments are accepted For more information about public comment on 25 grant component of both motorized conduct the grooming of over Parks funding sources and through Saturday, Aug. 3, 2019 the Montana Snowmobile applications for Snowmobile and non-motorized winter 4,000 miles of designated revenues. There is $410,000 at 5 pm. Program visit: http:// Trail Grooming funds for recreational activities in the snowmobile trails throughout available for the upcoming To comment online stateparks.mt.gov/recreation/ the 2019-2020 winter season. state. Montana’s groomed the state. The Montana season. visit: stateparks.mt.gov and snowmobileProgram.html. Or Public comment will be trails provide important access Snowmobile Program is A list of the proposed click on “Public Notices” or by contact Seth McArthur, accepted through Saturday, and recreational opportunities funded through a percentage 2019/2020 winter season email at snowmobilegrants@ Montana Snowmobile Program Aug. 3, 2019 at 5pm. for users such as snowmobiles, of the state gas tax paid by snowmobile grooming mt.gov. Comments may be Manager at (406) 444-3753. LIVING WITH FIRE THE EVOLUTION OF WILDFIRE SUPRESSION

By AMANDA EGGERT, to ash. MONTANA FREE PRESS Most of those 3 million acres burned in a two-day Editor’s Note: As the West period, August 20-21, fueled enters another fire season, by hurricane-force winds where, how and why federal that sucked entire trees from land management agencies the ground and turned them decide to suppress wildfires into airborne blowtorches. and implement fuel reduction Impacts were felt far and projects will be hotly debated, wide. Smoke turned the sun as residents, environmentalists, an eerie copper color in agency heads, and politicians Boston, and soot fell on the tangle with how much, ice in Greenland. “Not ever if any, thinning, logging, before had a forest fire been and prescribed burning is given headlines so big or appropriate to mitigate fire so black,” popular historian risk. Stuart Holbrook wrote a Three trends play an decade later. important role in the “It [was] literally seared discussion: hotter and into [the Forest Service’s drier conditions wrought memory] — in large part by climate change, which because many of the have led to an extended subsequent chiefs came out of burning season and a spike Missoula and fought that fire,” in fires deemed “historically said Char Miller, a professor significant ” by the Federal of environmental analysis and Emergency Management history at Pomona College Agency; a near doubling of and author of Public Lands, the number of homes built in Public Debates: A Century of areas of Montana with high Controversy. wildfire risk since 1990; and Damage sustained in the nearly 900 structures lost to 1910 fires helped the fledgling Montana wildfires in the past Forest Service, Montana’s decade, despite ever-growing largest federal land manager, spending on suppression, to rally public and political the tune of $397 million spent support to invest in more suppressing Montana fires in personnel, equipment and 2017, including an all-time infrastructure (roads, lookout high of $68.2 million from towers, and ranger stations) to state of Montana coffers, which help spot and fight wildfires contributed to a significant in the ensuing decades. state budget shortfall in 2018. Through the war years, fire In this three-part was largely regarded by the series, Montana Free Forest Service and American Press examines how federal public as a destructive force land management agencies to be subdued. have approached wildfire in In 1935, the Forest Service Smoke from burnout operations rises above the Madison River during the Maple Fire in Yellowstone National Park, September 10, 2016. the past and highlights key instituted a “10 a.m. policy” PHOTO COURTESY OF MONTANA FREE PRESS public and private sector directing fire managers to developments that could contain all human-caused drainages is a practical including dozers, aircraft, and 1972 when the chief of the in nearby communities to change how we engage with fires by 10 a.m. the following impossibility. I firmly believe flame retardant in the 1950s Forest Service approved the petition park administrators it in the future. This first day. Even in the 1930s, the that if the Forest Service that it found greater success agency’s first wilderness fire to scrap the park’s 1972 installment outlines a handful blanket suppression strategy had never expended a dollar meeting that objective, Miller management plan, which policy allowing some natural of events and policies that have had staunch opponents, in this country since 1900 said. gave fire managers authority ignitions to burn. shaped the wildfire narrative including Elers Koch, a there would have been no By the 1960s, the to let lightning-sparked Efforts to reframe the in the last century. forester and former Lolo appreciable difference in the ecological role of wildfire in fires burn in a portion narrative about those fires, National Forest chief who’d area burned over,” he wrote fire-adapted landscapes had of the Selway-Bitterroot including a February 1989 hortly after its fought the 1910 fires and in a 1935 issue of Journal of gained greater recognition Wilderness, typically under cover story in National establishment found full suppression to be Forestry. Miller said Koch’s among land managers. In predetermined conditions and Geographic documenting in 1905, the U.S. expensive, ineffective, and position was so controversial 1968, the National Park within a specified geographic the regeneration that ForestS Service underwent unmerited in some steep, that the editor of the Journal Service began allowing area. followed the flames, met with a literal trial by fire when dangerous landscapes of of Forestry felt compelled natural ignitions sparked The National Park Service some success, Miller said, a conflagration of fires in northern Idaho lacking high- to write an editorial opposing in favorable conditions to policy faced a political test catalyzing a sea change that Montana and Idaho known quality timber. Koch’s views. run their course, and used in 1988, when 1.2 million took about a decade to soak as the Big Burn of 1910 “After years of experience, The Forest Service largely prescribed fires to meet acres burned in and around into public consciousness. consumed 3 million acres, I have come to the considered stayed the course of the 10 management objectives. Yellowstone National Park “There was this much killing 86 people (mostly conclusion that control a.m. policy, but it wasn’t until The more hands-off fire during an exceptionally hot more ecological view of firefighters) and reducing the of fire in the backcountry the agency began employing management that Elers Koch and dry summer, leading town of Wallace, Idaho, nearly of the Selway and Lochsa emerging technologies supported was vindicated in some frustrated residents FIRE | A9 LONE PEAK LOOKOUT A7 July 11, 2019

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A successful rebranding

The Gallatin River Festival brings in more revenue to protect the river

BY JANA BOUNDS weekend of June. [email protected] Volunteer committee chairs for the event, Ennion Willliams and JeNelle Johnson, allatin River Task Force’s decision “were really integral to the success of the event,” to rebrand its yearly festival to Lynn said. be more inclusive of river users Williams said the success of the festival wasG a success, garnering 50 percent more is thanks to an increased awareness of gross revenue than last year, coming it at the importance of the preservation of the about $150,000, according to Stephanie Lynn, community’s resource – the Gallatin River. education and communications coordinator for “In addition to the work the Gallatin River the Task Force said. Task Force has performed in the past years The organization surveyed the attendees leading awareness in the region and promoting on Sat., June 29. Most were from Bozeman, how important the river and our water is to a Big Sky, or other areas in Montana with some growing community,” he said. visiting from Wyoming, Wisconsin, Arizona, Johnson described the event as bigger, Pennsylvania, and Florida, she explained. better and bolder. She explained that she Previously the Gallatin River Fly Fishing became involved with the GRTF with the hope Festival, Lynn said there are obviously more that she could help in some small way with the people than just anglers using the river. goal of a healthy Gallatin Watershed. “Our goal with renaming the event the “Hopefully our festival raised awareness Gallatin River Festival is to appeal to a broader about challenges the Gallatin faces and what spectrum of river lovers – having the support we do to protect one of our community’s of paddlers and hikers is critical to keeping the greatest assets,” Johnson said. “I am grateful to river healthy,” she said. my friends for their amazing support and to Around 30 volunteers contributed to the everyone who helped us make this festival such success of the festival, which was the final a success!”

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FIRE from A6 increased extent, intensity, influence.” The report that there’s no one-size-fits- “Fire is here, and it’s here fire — that fire was a good to a 2015 article in the and damage associated with describes the challenge of all approach that will work to stay,” said Strohmaier, who thing. It’s not destructive, but journal Ecosphere. Given how the small number of large reintroducing fire to these across diverse landscapes, authored Drift Smoke: Loss actually it was regenerative,” he many acres of the West have wildfires that are unable to be landscapes as “both urgent but says there’s plenty of and Renewal in a Land of said. been gobbled up by wildfire suppressed.” and enormous,” while also thoughtful science supporting Fire after spending 15 years Even with evolving in recent years, the idea of a A 2001 update to the multi- recognizing that suppression less suppression in favor of in fire management. “I’m attitudes, much of the West’s fire deficit might come as a agency Federal Wildland Fire has benefited humans by planning measures to prevent confident [that in Missoula] forested landscape is still surprise, but long-standing Management Policy recognized reducing air quality impacts, for home losses and better human we can make some meaningful subject to what ecologists policies geared toward that Fire Management Plans example. adaptation to wildfire. difference in resetting the call a fire deficit. Fewer acres extinguishing fires have led to should be “based upon the Almost 20 years later, Missoula County narrative related to how we have burned than would be higher fuel loads, amplifying best available science,” and lists managers and policymakers Commissioner David live with fire.” historically expected, likely due fires. Researchers working ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, still struggle to balance Strohmaier is one elected Part 2 of Living with Fire to decades of human activity, with the Forest Service’s pinyon/juniper woodlands, the ecological benefits of official in Montana trying to will look at the challenges and i.e., wildfire suppression, Rocky Mountain Research and tallgrass prairie as fire- fire with unwanted human move the needle on wildfire benefits of land-use planning logging, grazing, and the Station cite aggressive wildfire adapted ecosystems where impacts, particularly given preparedness with more policies in Missoula County conversion of landscapes for suppression as “one of the over-suppression of wildfire development in the Wildland- comprehensive land-use aimed at minimizing losses in agricultural use, according major factors that drive the has been a “destabilizing Urban Interface. Miller stresses planning. the Wildland-Urban Interface.

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Three Montana Residents to Pedal in the 40th Pan-Mass Challenge

Submitted by “As we prepare for our milestone 40th PMC, we are humbled KATIE MORRISON by the continued support from our growing community,” said Billy Starr, founder and executive director of the PMC. “It is thanks to the On Aug. 3 and 4, more than 6,700 riders, including three riders from unwavering passion and commitment of our riders, volunteers, donors Montana, will pedal up to 192 miles in the Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) and sponsors that the PMC has been able to make such a tangible with the goal of raising $60 million for cancer research and patient care impact on advancements in cancer research and treatment since 1980. at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. We can’t wait to see everyone on the road come August for what we Cyclists from 43 states and 12 countries will convene in hope will be a safe and enjoyable ride!” Massachusetts to participate in the PMC, taking on one of 12 routes, If the PMC reaches its 2019 fundraising goal of $60 million, which pass through 47 towns and range from 25 to 192 miles, designed Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, a cancer survivor and former PMC to cater to all levels of cycling and fundraising ability. Riders range in rider, has committed to donate an additional $1 million to the cause. age from 13 to 88 and include everyone from seasoned triathletes to One hundred percent of every rider-raised dollar is donated directly to weekend warriors. Many ride to honor a family member or friend who Dana-Farber through the its fundraising arm, the Jimmy Fund and the has battled cancer, while more than 950 riders and volunteers are cancer PMC is the institute’s largest single contributor, accounting for more survivors or current patients themselves—considered “Living Proof® of than 55 percent of the Jimmy Fund’s annual revenue. In 2018, the PMC the progress made in cancer research and treatment. donated an unprecedented $56 million to Dana-Farber, bringing its 39- Participants are required to raise between $600 and $8,500, year contribution to more than $654 million. depending on their chosen route, though the average cyclist raises more The PMC is presented by the Red Sox Foundation® and than $8,825, which exemplifies the spirit of the PMC and has helped New Balance®. To make a financial contribution to a rider the organization continue to increase its gift year after year, despite from your town or become a virtual rider, visit www.pmc.org, declining trends in the industry. Volunteers, spectators, donors and or call (800) WE-CYCLE. Connect with #PMC2019 #PMC40 sponsors are also part of the camaraderie on ride weekend, all working on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. together to make a difference in the fight against cancer. Good luck to the following participants! • Caitlin Tamposi, Big Sky, Montana • Wil Carroll, Clancy, Montana • Lucy Smith, Kalispell, Montana

About the Pan-Mass Challenge The Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) is a bike-a-thon that today raises more money for charity than any other single athletic fundraising event in the world. The 40th PMC will take place on August 3 and 4, 2019. The PMC was founded in 1980 by Billy Starr, who remains the event’s executive director, an annual cyclist and a fundraiser. The PMC has since raised $654 million for adult and pediatric patient care and cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute through the Jimmy Fund. The event donates 100 percent of every rider-raised dollar directly to the cause. The PMC generates more than 55 percent of the Jimmy Fund’s annual revenue and is Dana-Farber’s single largest contributor. The PMC has successfully melded support from committed cyclists, volunteers, corporate sponsors and individual contributors. All are essential to the PMC’s goal and model: to attain Caitlin Tamposi of Big Sky will be among more than 6,700 riders cycling up to 192 maximum fundraising efficiency while increasing its annual gift. miles in the 40th Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) on August 3 and 4, with the goal The PMC’s hope and aspiration is to provide Dana-Farber’s doctors of raising $60 million for cancer research and treatment at Dana-Farber Cancer and researchers with the necessary resources to discover cures Institute. for all cancers. For more information on the Pan-Mass Challenge, visit www.pmc.org. sponsored by LONE PEAK LOOKOUT B1 July 11, 2019

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Being part of the creative process Summer performances at WMPAC allow for a deeper understanding of the arts COURTESY WMPAC. The JamesSewell Ballet is innovation in motion. PHOTO BY JANA BOUNDS [email protected]

arren Miller Performing Arts Center (WMPAC) director John Zirkle explained that the summer experience at WMPAC is aboutW continual evolution and the artistic endeavor in its rawest form. The wildness of the west is embraced by artists in hauntingly powerful lines in plays, the fluid movement of bodies in poetic motion, harmonies of perfection in addition to intentional moments of imperfection. All are in an effort to properly tell stories of the human condition and to elevate observers to a higher level of humanity. He attributes the philosophy to two pivotal Big Sky figures: Warren Miller and Chet Huntley. Warren Miller said you can do anything in a ski town and that you can create better in a ski town than in Manhattan, he said. That coupled with Chet Huntley’s vision of “perhaps where there is clarity of air, there is clarity of thought,” COURTESY WMPAC. The Proxy Marriageis a play unique to Montana . PHOTO is the inspiration behind the ground-up, audience participation kind of approach in the summer months. “Those two ideas have really helped shape our vision statement at WMPAC: Present in the winter, create in the summer, inspire year-round,” Zirkle said. Summertime at WMPAC is about tapping potential and unleashing creativity in children and adults alike. “We work with kids to create musicals – unleashing the creativity in children. With our summer creative residencies, we create the space for amazing artists to come out to Big Sky, be inspired by our mountain paradise here and develop relevant, important, new work in the performing arts and integrate with our community in the process,” he said. He compares the difference between summer and winter WMPAC experiences as similar to experiencing different meals. “Sometimes we want to go to a great restaurant – order off of a preset menu and the food comes already prepared –

that’s what we do in the winter. In the summer, we are going Sky Big The Crossing brings a contemporary choral/film project to to the store to get the fresh ingredients – I’m going to the store. I’m preparing. Both are important to a balanced life,” PHOTO COURTESY WMPAC. he said. “That’s what we are doing with the performing arts. The key with WPAC is we go to the best restaurants and we source the best ingredients, most importantly we always try to find a way to mix in local spices.” Locals get the opportunity to work with Tony and Grammy winners from all over the country – to participate in the creative process from the inception of an idea. “We are attempting to bridge a rural-urban gap in America through this creative process in our own small way – but it is a big deal,” Zirkle said. “I think as an emerging institution that has national and international ties it’s important for us to show and demonstrate that performance art is a living thing that changes with time. It’s a great place for access. We get to see a musical stripped- down, in its rawest form. I think that’s very exciting because it allows us to see the creative impulse.” Oliver Houser and Hunter Bird worked on a new play in Big Sky, the James Sewell Ballet returns for their sixth summer in residence to develop new work and will perform songs. The performers included four local adults and the July 13, The Proxy Marriage showing July 20 is a new rest were high school students who only had one day to Montana-based musical stars a cast from New York City learn the songs they performed for us. and features Montana-based talent. The Crossing, a two- I was a little concerned about seeing an unfinished time Grammy winning group, performs Aug. 7 and will be musical, but hearing the storyline and their thinking, developing new work for choir and film. thoughts and reasoning behind what they’re putting together and why and then seeing what they’ve Lone Peak Lookout’s contributing writer, Garon already put together – what they performed was LaFabulous, attended the June 29 concert featuring amazing and I loved every minute of it. I can’t wait to the work of Oliver Houser and Hunter Bird including see the finished version. performances by Big Sky locals. Here is what he said about Oliver Houser’s mission statement on his website: the event: “My mission is to create songs and musicals that We were all just on stage in chairs. There were maybe embrace the totality of the human experience and about 40 people – within just a few feet of the performers. connect us to our shared humanity, healing and They introduced themselves and said what they do. Oliver inspiring myself and the world.” is the pianist and writes the music. Hunter writes the story I really feel like he accomplished that. and directs. The first musical they did was called “Held I loved just watching him perform. He was Over” which is about them being stuck on a subway in New playing, he was dancing, conducting, acting and York and helping a woman give birth. They sang a song engaging the audience all at the same time. from “XY” which is about an intersexed kid, it talks about accepting and allowing yourself to be who you are and for others to have the same allowance for you. Their voices were amazing, the music was awesome. It “Those two ideas have was very insightful. It made me think, cry and love all at the same time. really helped shape our In life everyone is telling us we aren’t good enough. We can’t do this; we have to do that. This kind of references all vision statement of that. We talked a little bit about Held Over and then XY. The at WMPAC: Present one they’re currently working on is called “Almost Heaven”. It’s a story about a young girl coming of age in a dying town, in the winter, create which is interesting because that is the opposite of what is happening in Big Sky. The town is booming and people who in the summer, inspire are born and raised here can’t afford to live here and have to move away. year-round,” GARON THE FABULOUS They showed up in Big Sky with half of a song for that Zirkle said PHOTO BY ELENA ROSE PHOTOGRAPHY musical and by the end of the week, they had six and a half LONE PEAK LOOKOUT B2 July 11, 2019

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Meet the James Sewell Ballet dancers Back in Big Sky, dancers explain why they love this company

BY KEELY LARSON Stephanie Moffett-Hugg to adequately perform all but Bovington persisted. The Moffett-Hugg, will lace up Minn. [email protected] grew up all over the east coast, the demanding maneuvers entire JSB company came to their pointe shoes for rehearsal St. Paul Ballet did a but called New Jersey home. required. Every dancer has Helena and hosted an audition later in the day. Keeping their collaboration with JSB, whose he James Sewell Moffett-Hugg started her their own warm up routine for their summer intensive at feet warm and supple is crucial home is also in Minnesota, and Ballet company ballet career with gymnastic. in terms of both activity Queen City Ballet. Bovington for maintaining comfort and an audition for the fellowship (JSB) is back A broken wrist at 13 prompted performed before dancing was accepted and enjoyed her strength in the shoes that allow program was offered before rehearsingT and performing at her to start ballet classes to starts and the type of clothes experience enough to continue them to stand all the way up the performances began. the Warren Miller Performing keep in shape while her injury worn to supplement. to come back. on their toes. Garrido was accepted into this Arts Center. Company healed. Fortunately, she fell in In the dark theater a half an “I really like his (Sewell’s) When asked what she program and now this week is members and fellows train and love with ballet and stuck with hour before the official warm encouraging attitude. It’s a lot would do if she had time away her first time dancing with the present together, encouraging it, receiving her first contract up began, dancers chose their different from a lot of teachers from ballet over the next week company. growth in both artistry and with Baltimore Ballet. places at the barre, assumed I had. His combinations are and a half, Bovington brought “I love the company. I friendship. Both components Moffett-Hugg was in various positions and started really hard so he’s always up a job she would take if she think it’s so different from of the company are partnered Chicago when she auditioned separate exercises to get their pushing you, but in a really lived in town. “Well, I really other companies that do ballet together and after certain for JSB. After auditioning muscles active before the first positive way,” Bovington like to cook and the restaurant and I love how he (Sewell) combinations during warm she got an acceptance call a plié of class. Some did push- expressed. Dance instructors that caters (By Word of challenges all the social up at 10 a.m., company few days later and her first ups, some abdominal exercises all have their own ways of Mouth) is really amazing and I notions that we usually have members provide guidance experience with the company and some slow, methodical teaching and correcting, and really admire the lady because about who should dance. I and constructive criticism to was during the Twin Sky stretching. some are more strict and she’s a woman head chef, so love that he’s very diverse the eager fellows. Warm up Summer Intensive here in Big In terms of attire, Moffett- confining than others. Sewell I’d probably want to work at and welcoming,” Garrido lasts for an hour and a half, Sky. Hugg has been dancing is able to ask a lot from his her restaurant because it’s such expressed. followed by a short break. “I love that he gives you professionally for upwards of dancers by keeping his delivery good food,” Bovington gushed. Growing up in Ecuador Rehearsals for new pieces freedom of expression, but still six years and has her routine positive, uplifting, yet also makes the colder climates a bit begin immediately after. makes sure you’re maintaining down. “I wear pants and a focused. Meet Emilia Garrido: hard on Garrido and she hangs Essentially, the dancers are at it the integrity of your sweatshirt and flat shoes for In other classes and Garrido grew up in on to her warm ups as long all day, happy to be practicing technique,” Moffett-Hugg said. all of barre and I’m down to a intensives Bovington has been Ecuador and started as she can. “Since I’m from their art in an artificially lit That statement is essentially leotard and shorts for center,” a part of, she has to take her gymnastics at age seven. She Ecuador I get cold really easily theater while the rest of town Sewell in a nutshell. He is she explained, and hurried off warm up clothes off before was born with a problem in and it’s such a challenge living searches for as much sunlight incredibly out of the box, but to join her fellow company barre begins at the beginning her hips which led to her in Minnesota. It really depends as possible. also an extremely capable and members in the theater to of class. Many teachers like to being pigeon-toed. Ballet was on the teacher to be honest. If Three of James Sewell’s competent technical dancer, rehearse. be able to see body positioning corrective for this, requiring I’m allowed to just keep them dancers took the time in that whipping out four consecutive more clearly, without the turn-out from the hip joints, on for the longest time I would short period between warm pirouettes without any Meet Helen Bovington: added excess of baggy and also enticing enough that because I’m just so cold!” up and rehearsal to talk about problem. The combination of Bovington is not a stranger sweatshirts. “At every place Garrido continued to pursue Garrido looks forward how they started dancing both of those elements makes to dancing with JSB. She I dance besides here, I have her passion. The Garrido to exploring the nature and ballet, what lead them to watching him and the dancers grew up in Helena, Montana, to have warm ups off before family moved to the United wildlife Big Sky has to offer joining JSB and what they love he has shaped so exquisite, dancing with the local Queen barre, but here I wear my States when Garrido’s father while the company is here. the most about dancing with Moffett-Hugg being a perfect City Ballet Company. She slippers for the longest because received a scholarship for “I love the nature here. It’s the company. example. told of how her mother did it takes a really long time for his PhD studies from the so interesting and beautiful, Ballerinas need to be warm, not necessarily want her to me to get my feet warm,” she University of Minnesota. This and I really want to spot some Meet Stephanie Moffett- internally and externally, dance, encouraging her to described. move lead to Garrido’s training animals. I’m really excited for Hugg: in order for their muscles do “regular sports” instead, Bovington, along with at the St. Paul Ballet in St. Paul, t h at .”

Stephanie and her partner Andrew Lester rehearse together Helen, in her pointe shoes, lunges and elongates from head Emilia put her leg warmers and sweater back on to stay on the 4th of July. PHOTO BY KEELY LARSON to toe. PHOTO BY KEELY LARSON warm for rehearsal. PHOTO BY KEELY LARSON

Broadway returns to Big Sky with a homegrown twist: WC MPA presents a staged reading of a new musical about a unique Montana law

Submitted by AVA KING The firm has made an entire practice out of between Adam Gwon–whose music theater and Michele Pawk, the Tony-Winning actress Montana’s proxy marriage law, which states that compositions have been performed on six featured in Stephanie DiMaggio’s Levity, which uly 20 at 7 p.m. a cast of Broadway actors brides and grooms do not have to be physically different continents in over half a dozen was a huge hit in the 2018 winter season at will be joining forces with Big Sky and present at the nuptials for the union to be legal. languages by luminaries such as Kelli O’Hara WMPAC. Bozeman-based performers to bring William and Bridey graduate and move apart to and Audra McDonald—and Michele Lowe, Learn more about The Proxy Marriage and togetherJ a staged reading of a new musical pursue their artistic dreams, but each summer author of the Broadway show The Smell of the get tickets online at warrenmillerpac.org called The Proxy Marriage. Based on Helena- their stand-in job brings them back together for Kill and recipient of several national awards born author Maile Meloy’s short story published a week. Fifteen years later, they begin to wonder for her plays and musicals. The reading will be Link to New Yorker story: https://www. in The New Yorker, the story follows teenagers if what they were longing for all along was each directed by Marc Bruni, director of Beautiful: newyorker.com/magazine/2012/05/21/the-proxy- William and Bridey, who both have weekend other. The Carole King Musical on Broadway, and marriage jobs at a family law firm as wedding stand-ins. The Proxy Marriage is a collaboration brings back Big Sky favorites John Dossett LONE PEAK LOOKOUT B3 July 11, 2019

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406-995-6995 | BigSkyMedicalCenter.com LONE PEAK LOOKOUT B5 July 11, 2019 Not So Average JOE The heyday of L.A. Former Los Angeles Ram guard Tom Newberry reflects on his career and colorful life

STORY AND PHOTOS BY JANA BOUNDS [email protected]

om Newberry is likely Big Sky’s only resident former National Football League (NFL) football player. He is also first cousin on his mother’s side to John “Duke” Wayne a.k.a. Marion Morrison. Think of any famous people who spent any time in Los Angeles during the T80s or 90s, and Newberry likely knows them. He can sometimes be found at the Corral, where he said a lot of business deals are made, and will happily share stories of guys like Julius Irving, Mike Tyson, Walter Payton, O.J. Simpson and Kareem Abdul Jabar. “I got to go to all of these charity events and meet Magic Johnson, all these people. It was really cool for me – a kid from Wisconsin,” he said. In 2015, Newberry was inducted into the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Hall of Fame. He was two-time Pro Bowl as well as NFL All-Pro offensive guard along with starting for the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XXX. Nine of the 10 years of his NFL career were spent as a guard for the Los Angeles Rams. It was a beautiful time to be in L.A.– the sports world was thriving, and characters were around every corner – both athletes and actors. The greatest moment of his career happened his first year in the league. “My dad is a Bears fan. I’m down by the in-zone stretching and Walter Payton jogs up to me. He says, ‘You’re having a Hell of a rookie year.’ It was Walter’s last year in the league,” he said. His father was attending that game and saw the exchange. “So, my dad went absolutely bat **** crazy [with excitement],” Newberry said. Walter Payton was a 13-year veteran. He was already famous. Eric Dickerson will be mad at me if he reads this.” His second year with the Rams, they sent a limo to pick him up for a charity auction. “We were walking through this kitchen. It was all in alphabetical order and there were 200- Tom Newberry can sometimes be found at The Corral, shooting the breeze with other locals. 250 tables,” he explained, with an athlete at each table. He was working his way through a kitchen, waiting to be announced to walk out and spoke with the guy in front of him for 20 minutes. The man he suffered between 150-200 concussions, which prompted his inclusion in the class action lawsuit knew all about football and Newberry’s career. against the NFL, for which he is due for an examination by one of the NFL’s physicians this fall. Newberry thought he looked familiar, but he was He admits that football was never his chosen sport. He was always way more into track and not wearing a name tag. basketball. He was “over it” from playing in high school and sat out his freshman year, focusing on “Finally, he gets announced: Willie Mayes,” track and field at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. His journey with track and field led to he said. Mayes was just a huge football fan, he four national titles, seven All American honors and 10 conference titles according to Wisconsin explained. Intercollegiate Athletic Conference stats. Another time he was walking around a “Then I didn’t play football my first year, I just did track. The [football] coach convinced me to cocktail party in L.A. and spotted a guy who come out and play. It was never my favorite sport. Basketball and track were my favorite sports,” he looked familiar, but he could not place him. said. “But, he was sitting down,” Newberry said. He was drafted during a golden era in Los Angeles sports. “He stands up and I am like, ‘Good Lord!’ It “L.A. was the scene then, the Lakers were good, we were good. It was a cool time for me to be a was Kareem Abdul Jabar. If you ever see a 7’3” young guy in the NFL,” he said. human stand up in your life, you’ll be like, ‘What Raised in small town Wisconsin, he has three brothers and two sisters. His now 90 year old father the Hell?’” is tough enough to still take most guys in a fight, he said. Newberry was famously fierce during his “I really like Mike,” he said with a grin, tenure with the NFL and was tossed out of two pre-season games for fighting. The first was against referring to Mike Tyson. His agent was friends the Cardinals and the second was a game against the New Orleans Saints, when he knocked-out the with Tyson’s agent. safety “cold turkey.” The fine for his preseason shenanigans – $500 per offense. “Mike Tyson would come to games a lot and He found his way to Big Sky shortly after retirement thanks to a Montana ski vacation with a hang out in the locker room with us before we friend from Red Lodge. would get taped up with pads and hang out on “Drove down and went skiing for a day here. Stayed at Buck’s, went to the Black Bear. There was the side lines. He’d go out to the bar with us after a minor altercation there,” he said. And a valuable lesson was learned, do not stick Newberry in the the games. He’d be like, ‘Dude this is so cool.’ He’s middle of a mosh pit. 5’10” and most of us were 6’5” and he would just He kept coming back to Big Sky, he brought his wife to visit and they decided to make the move. blend in. He’d be like, ‘Man, nobody is bothering The couple was part time for a while, spending half of their time on a boat in the Bahamas. me,’” Newberry said. He has become a familiar face in the community partly from philanthropy and partly from a As vibrant as some of those memories are diversified business portfolio. He has spent 15 years volunteering with Big Brother and Big Sisters in the heyday of L.A., there are gaps in his and for the celebrity golf tournament. He also volunteers his time with the Big Horns, teaching Big memory from that time – certain things he cannot Sky kids shot put and discus. Tom Newberry’s (L) teammates stuck him in a limo remember: quality time with his family, playing As for business, he is owner of Big Sky Tree Removal, co-owner of The Big Horn Center and and told him they were going to dinner. They pulled- with his kids. He was there, he just does not storage units with Dave Dollinger and co-owner of Compass Café with Stephanie Alexander. up to a barbershop and let him in on what was remember. Spontaneous business meetings in The Corral led him down a few of those paths. actually happening – he was getting a mohawk for This is no great surprise when he estimates “That’s where all the good stuff gets done – right here,” he said referring to The Corral. this photo shoot.

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