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Bigfoot Legend Endures

But What About Forensics? 02/10/15 BY DAVID S. LEWIS It came as a surprise when a friend asked if I had seen the Sasquatch track collection of a professional tracker in Gardiner—Jim Halfpenny (scientist, educator, Ph.D. in Biology, Ecology and Mammal-ogy). Before we proceed, let’s be clear—Halfpenny is neither a believer nor a denier, but a skeptic, the appropriate … [Read more...]

Tracking Wildlife with Jim Halfpenny

Tracking Wildlife with  Jim Halfpenny

Veteran Tracker Reads the Signs Nature Leaves Behind 02/10/15 BY LISA BARIL A writer friend once told me stories are everywhere if you know how to look for them. He was referring to the human story, but as a biologist I am pulled toward the stories nature writes. A dozen ravens swirling above the remains of a cow elk killed by wolves the day before. A pair of bald eagles … [Read more...]

Keystone XL Cows Ranchers Using Eminent Domain

Willing Landowners Not So Willing 02/10/15 BY PAUL SEAMANS and DARRELL GAROUTTE TransCanada is so intent on winning approval for its proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline from Canada that it is spending millions on media ads and making donations to communities along the route. In recent articles, TransCanada has stated that it has obtained 100 percent of the … [Read more...]

Helena, Montana in the Old Days

Helena, Montana in the Old Days

Ellen Baumler Takes Us There BY BRIAN D'AMBROSIO Self-disciplined. Self-directed. Curious. These three words perhaps best describe Ellen Baumler, the Interpretive Historian at the Montana Historical Society in Helena. Since 1992, Baumler has made a career out of creating interpretive signs for historical sites in Montana, developing and writing walking tours of historic … [Read more...]

Pinkerton Secret Agent

Working Undercover in the 1892 Coeur d’Alene Labor Strike BY CHARLES A. SIRINGO I found myself in Denver without a home or family ties; but I had quite a fat little bank account. My salary had piled up during the eight months that I was gone, as I had no occasion to touch it, all my expenses, even to my laundry, medicine and doctor bills, having been paid by our client, the … [Read more...]

You’re Fired!

Or Maybe Not—After Giving Someone a Job, an Employer Can Be Forced to Keep Them What does it take to fire someone these days? You might be surprised. Nobody looks forward to this, neither employer nor employee, but it’s a necessary part of the work-a-day world, something every boss has to do from time to time (as he must hire) to run a reasonably tight ship and stay afloat … [Read more...]

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