Cover image: Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2020 - © Peter Mcbride "Into the Canyon" PAGE 2A • THE BOZONE • APRIL 01, 2021 Stretch your dollar with flexibility enhancing starter session StretchLab, Bozeman’s premier assisted normal range of motion is increased. Bozeman StretchLab’s program will stretching providers, are now offering an intro- By increasing range of motion we improve also help to: ductory rate for their transformative sessions the distance limbs can move before damage – Reduce aches, pains and stiff, led by skilled professionals. occurs to the muscles and tendons. For exam- tight muscles and joints Valued at over $100, get a 50-minute intro ple, the muscles and tendons in the back of the – Reduce the potential of soft tissue stretch for only $49 for a limited time. leg are put under great strain when kicking a injuries like muscle and tendon strains Abbreviated stretches lasting only 25 minutes ball. 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Get a FREE 15-minute demo www.stretchlab.com. • YGM series ‘People & Place’ sets new virtual dates Yellowstone Gateway Museum has about the Little Shell Chippewa Tribe. He extraordinary Montana women: wives and Museum. announced its “People & Place” virtual speak- relays stories to help program attendees under- mothers who served in traditional and non- Paul Shea presents “Livingston & Park er series will begin April 7th and continue stand who the Little Shell people are and their traditional roles, as well as trailblazers. Images County: The Early Years” on April 28th at Wednesday evenings through the month. part in the history of North America. are from the museum’s collections. 7pm. He explores the success story of “We postponed our popular in-person pro- Montana’s Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Participants can join the meeting at 6:30pm or Livingston, and the county as a whole, which grams last spring so we are excited to offer vir- Indians recently became the 574th Indian at the start of the program. rose from a sleepy agricultural area that was tual programs this year, hoping to expand our tribe to be recognized by the United States Author and historian Kelly Hartman pres- once part of Gallatin County to a bustling rail- reach far beyond the borders of Big Sky government, after nearly 150 years of trying. ents “A Brief History of Cooke City” on road center and gateway to the world’s first Country,” said Museum curator Karen La Tray is Chippewa-Cree Métis, an enrolled April 21st at 7pm. Hartman recounts stories national park. Shea uses historic photos from Reinhart. “Each program highlights the stories member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa from her book of the same title, exploring the the Gateway Museum’s collection in his pro- of Montanans but we suspect there are a lot of Indians, and grew up in Missoula. stories of this mountain berg’s full-time resi- gram. He retired last spring as the museum’s people who would enjoy these programs no Author, YGM Curator, and native dents. For more than sixty years, Cooke City director. matter where they live.” Montanan Karen Reinhart presents residents waited for rail until a new economy Visit www.yellowstonegatewaymuse- Award-winning author and storyteller “Montana Women: Making Do and took hold – tourism. Hartman grew up in um.org to register for the series and watch Chris LaTray presents the series’ inaugural Making a Difference” on April 14th at Silver Gate and was director of the Cooke for announcements on the museum’s social program on at 7pm on April 7th, with “The 7pm, following the Friends of the YGM City Montana Museum before her current media pages. • Day That Finally Came,” a program Annual Meeting. She includes stories of work as curator at the Gallatin History Emerson galleries feature pair of fresh arrays this month Emerson Center for the Arts & language that harmoniously con- Lobby and Weaver Room Galleries elements, come together to investi- All exhibits are free and open the Culture has announced two new nects all of his works. Each piece is through April 23rd. gate intriguing geometric shapes, public. Gallery hours are 10am to exhibits on display in April. intriguing when considered as a The Botany of Math(re): an spirals, symmetries and mathemati- 5pm, Monday through Friday. Emergence by Kurt Palmquist whole, but offers endlessly evolving Exploration of Numbers and cal puzzles found in nature. These Visitors must wear masks and began with a fascination for three- compositions as you look deeper Nature by Susie Mathre delves into works are on display in the Jessie respect social distancing guidelines dimensional geometric forms into the work. Careful use of forms the intersecting relationships Wilber Gallery through April 30th. for the safety and comfort of the inspired by architecture and light. and color create spaces that invite between plants, mathematics, and These exhibits are sponsored by Emerson community. Through dimensional wall art, the imagination to enter and explore the patterns they create. Seeds and the Montana Arts Council and For more information about the paintings, and digital prints, as if they were actual structures. leaves of local noxious and invasive NorthWestern Energy Community Emerson and these exhibits, please Palmquist has developed a visual Emergence is on display in the weeds, metal, wood, glass, and other Works. visit www.theemerson.org. • GVLT recognizes Gallatin County with Trail Partner Award Each year the Gallatin Valley has been working closely with the recipient of the award for their ment, the Triangle Community Plan the west side of Bozeman. Their Land Trust honors an individual, Gallatin County on conservation work on multiple trails related proj- identified a need for a Triangle Area partnership with Run Dog Run has organization or agency that deserves easements through the Gallatin ects. During the public process to Trail Plan, a vision that could ensure made that dog park one of the most recognition for improving or County Open Lands Program, the develop the Triangle Community connectivity ahead of development. widely used in town and a true com- expanding access to trails for the partnership to support trail develop- Plan, led by the Planning Gallatin County showed their com- munity center for neighborhoods in community. GVLT is proud to give ment is more recent and worthy of Coordinating Committee including mitment to this vision immediately the west side of Bozeman. The to the 2021 Trail Partner Award celebration and praise. representatives from Gallatin and entered into an agreement with County also led efforts to create and to Gallatin County. While GVLT Gallatin County was chosen as County, Belgrade and Bozeman, the the Gallatin Valley Land Trust to groom cross country ski trails on the community shared that they wanted financially support the creation of a southwest corner of the Regional to see high quality, connected, acces- trail plan for the area. The Triangle Park. These Nordic trails are the sible and safe trails in the Triangle Trail Plan, still in progress, shows only groomed trails on the west side Veterans’ mental health day Area as it develops. Because of avail- the community that Gallatin County of town and a welcomed addition In the U.S., we lose 17 veter- capita veteran populations in the able infrastructure and proximity to shares the value of trails and is during a year where people are ans to suicide every day. To raise country, and a large portion of population centers, the Triangle ensuring that a trail system grows eager for outdoor physical activity awareness and honor the lives lost, those veterans live right here in Area between Bozeman, Belgrade alongside future development in near home. MSU Veteran Services, MSU the Gallatin Valley. and Four Corners is likely to see the area. Learn more about the Triangle Bobcat Athletics and the Help This virtual event will encour- high density residential development Gallatin County has also shown Community Plan and the local non- Center are hosting 17 to Zero: age people to get out on April in the coming years.