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Events & News
Janet Metcalf searches a log jam underneath the Higgins Street bridge for clues as part of the Brains & Brawn race in September. Metcalf and her team the Heads above Water went on to win second place in the recreational competition. The Brains and Brawn race, organised as a fund raiser for the Headwaters Dance Company, challenges competitors to not only get somewhere the fastest, but also solve clues about their next destination based on math and trivia problems.
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Events & News
Janet Metcalf searches a log jam underneath the Higgins Street bridge for clues as part of the Brains & Brawn race in September. Metcalf and her team the Heads above Water went on to win second place in the recreational competition. The Brains and Brawn race, organised as a fund raiser for the Headwaters Dance Company, challenges competitors to not only get somewhere the fastest, but also solve clues about their next destination based on math and trivia problems.
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Events & News - Ten Spoon Grape Harvest 1
Philip Frandsen carries a tub of grapes as he works his way down a row of the Ten Spoon Winery vineyard in Missoula during the Grape Harvest in September. The grapes collected on Sunday are going to be used in Ten Spoon's Range Rider Red Wine.
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Events & News - Trench Training 1
Missoula city firefighters work to secure walls during trench extraction training Thursday afternoon at the Missoula County gravel pit at Shakespeare and Rodgers. Once a safe zone is established in the trench, they can extract the victim. According to firefighter Jeff Biggs, 70 percent of trench fatalities are not the initial victims but their rescuers, placing an emphasis on proper execution.
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Events & News - Trench Training 2
Philip Keating stands cautiously in the trench before shores are placed. Whenever working in the trench, firefighters never let their diaphragm pass below the lowest secured point, in this case the surface of the trench. During a typical summer, Biggs says that between 50 and 60 trenches are opened in Missoula. While most are closed without incident, the department needs to be ready.
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Events & News - Healing Waters 1
Pete Shinn guides Army veteran Shawn Graves on a fly-fishing trip down the Blackfoot River on Wednesday while participating in a Project Healing Waters float for disabled veterans sponsored by the Big Blackfoot Chapter of Trout Unlimited.
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Events & News - Healing Waters 2
Participants in the Project Healing Waters float trip down the Blackfoot prepare their boats for launch at the Harry Morgan fishing access before heading downstream Wednesday. Four veterans participated in Wednesday's float.
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Events & News - Splash 1
Exuberant students from Washington Middle School flooded Splash Montana on Friday morning during a field trip on the last day of school. According to Splash Montana aquatics supervisor Eric Seagrave, the school’s being there was a great opportunity to “get everything fine-tuned and ready” for the official opening at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Seagrave said that while there is always a possibility of opening the park in May, the cost of heating usually delays the opener until June.
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Events & News - Splash 2
Washington Elementary students on the Lazy River react to a waterfall Friday. Teacher Ray Somerset says the school has been holding the end-of-year field trip for many years as a reward for a great school year. Washington Middle School reported 250 students in attendance Friday.
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Events & News - Car Show 1
Jake Billington, 21, of Frenchtown polishes the wheels of his 1972 Chevrolet Chevelle before the Garden City River Rod Run on Friday in Caras Park. Billington says that when he got the Chevelle the interior had only seats and was a lot of bare metal.
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Events & News - Car Show 2
Paul Kruger of Columbia Falls fixes the hood latch on a 1928 Dodge five-window coupe on Friday in Caras Park. Kruger calls the car a “Rusto-Rod” having been extensively restored and customized with many modern parts, including a 1955 Desoto hemi engine.
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Events & News - Car Show 3
Bill Gaul, a criminal justice teacher at Hellgate High School, polishes the paint of his recently restored 1977 Pontiac Firebird. Gaul is the original owner of the Firebird, which he purchased brand-new while he was a student at the University of Montana. All the restoration work on the Firebird was done by former students of Gaul’s, making it a unique project.
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Events & News - Off-Road 1
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Events & News - Off-Road 2
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Events & News - Amish Auction 1
Leroy Miller, Tim Schrock and Marty Miller work to align roof trussing while assembling a prefabricated cabin Tuesday. The 26-by-32-foot cabin is being auctioned during the Mission Valley Auction on Saturday to benefit the Amish Christian School.
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Events & News - Amish Auction 2
Schrock points to where he wants Marty to drill while Leroy looks on during construction of the southwest corner of the cabin on Tuesday.
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Events & News - Fishing Without Barriers 2
Jaidah Fuller hugs Capt. Tom Cobianco during her fishing trip on Flathead Lake Thursday. Cobianco commented that taking Jaidah out on his boat made the day for him.
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Events & News - Fishing Without Barriers 3
Opal Besaw and her father Ken Besaw reel in a fish during the casting contest, while her mother Amy Besaw looks on during the Fishing Without Barriers event on Thursday. Opal claimed that she wanted to do the casting contest because she did not catch any fish, but her luck quickly changed.
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Events & News - Fishing Without Barriers 4
Dustin Bagley, owner of the Bagley Guide Service, sets a line during the Fishing Without Barriers event on Flathead Lake on Thursday. Bagley loves working the event because it “gives people a chance to get out who normally don’t fish.”
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Events & News - Stream Monitoring 1
Members of the Montana Conservation Corps make their way down Lolo Creek while looking for a suitable site measure river flow and health on Tuesday. The Group which is partnered with the Watershed Education Network also measured macro invertebrate levels and looked at pebble sizes in the Creek.
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Events & News - Stream Monitoring 2
Mackenzie Mentel measures a rock held by Ticha Padgett-Steward as Joe Wolf looks on while conducting a pebble survey of Lolo Creek on Tuesday. The goal of the pebble survey is to see the variety of rock sizes in the creek, with larger diversity signifying a healthier watershed.
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Events & News - Stream Monitoring 3
Dominique Mathews sorts a stonefly nymph from a tub of aquatic macro invertebrates collected in Lolo Creek on Tuesday. The bugs which are sensitive to aquatic pollution serve as another way of measuring watershed health. The aquatic bugs are collected by kicking up the creek bottom into catch nets. After being surveyed the bugs are returned to the river.
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Events & News - Stream Monitoring 4
Jackson Bale unloads a catch net full of bugs from Lolo Creek into a sorting tub during a Montana Conservation Corps creek survey on Tuesday.
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Events & News - Grateful Nation
Senator Max Baucus speaks with a member of Boy Scout Troop 1911 after the unveiling of the Grateful Nation Memorial unveiling. Baucus held the unveiling very closely as his nephew Phillip Baucus was killed while serving in Iraq in 2005.
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Jaidah Fuller of Kila “drives” a fishing boat during Fishing Without Barriers on Flathead Lake on Thursday. Jaidah, who was shaken violently as a baby, joined 150 other participants to enjoy a day of fishing on the lake. According to Jaidah’s grandmother, Shawn Fuller, she “never ceases to amaze us, she keeps doing things they said she’d never do.”
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People - Fishing Without Barriers 1
Jaidah Fuller of Kila “drives” a fishing boat during Fishing Without Barriers on Flathead Lake on Thursday. Jaidah, who was shaken violently as a baby, joined 150 other participants to enjoy a day of fishing on the lake. According to Jaidah’s grandmother, Shawn Fuller, she “never ceases to amaze us, she keeps doing things they said she’d never do.”
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People - Rodeo 1
Duston Stephens of the University of Montana rodeo team sits atop his horse Ben before team roping practice at the Mytty Ranch near Lolo last Wednesday night. Stephens will be competing in the College National Finals Rodeo June 9-15 in Casper, Wyo., alongside Montana State’s Wyatt Bloom in the team roping competition.
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Vadeem Lemeza plays with his dog “Mishka” at his home in Missoula. Lemeza moved to Missoula from Belarus with his family in 1996 due to fears of religious prosecution following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Despite claiming himself as “Americanized” Lemeza lives with several fellow Belarusians including his wife Alla. Even “Mishka” is a tribute to Lemeza’s childhood home meaning “griz” in English.
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People - Conservation Easement 1
Gene Coughlin and Steve Kloetzel of The Nature Conservancy stand on a section of the Blackfoot River Ranch near Helmville on Tuesday. Coughlin, his brother Jay and neighboring rancher John Tracy Manley recently secured easements through Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and bought former Plum Creek Timber Co. lands from TNC. The transaction marks a final step on the 89,000-acre conservation initiative led by the Blackfoot Challenge and TNC.
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People - Railroad Crossing 1
Harlan Ockler, a Frenchtown businessman, stands by the railroad crossing on Beckwith Street. Montana Rail Link has proposed closing the crossing; however, many locals like Ockler use the crossing to take pressure off of downtown traffic. Without the crossing, all traffic in Frenchtown would be forced into one crossing.
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People - Strehlow 1
Alaina Strehlow stands next to Rattlesnake Creek. Strehlow has spent many hours in the creek working as the volunteer coordinator for the Watershed Education Network. This fall she stopped working there in the interest of her Wildlife biology studies at the University of Montana.
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Places - Little Moose 1
Sun breaks through snowy skies at the end of a Mid-February snowstorm.
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Places - Camel's Hump 1
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Places - Colorado 1
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Places - Colorado 3
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Places - Puffball Fungus 1
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Places - Utah 1
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Places - Glacier 1/ HDR
Avalanche Creek flows through a gorge shortly before meeting up with McDonald Creek. The water flows along the Avalanche Lake trail in Glacier National Park which is one of the most heavily traveled trails in the park.
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Places - Glacier 2
A dead tree hangs in a rock wall above the Garden Wall Trail in Glacier National Park.
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Places - Glacier 5
Storm Clouds pass over the Many Glacier Area of Glacier National Park.
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Places - Patagonia 1
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Places - Patagonia 4
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Places - Patagonia 5
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Places - Patagonia 6
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Places - Andes 1
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Animals - Animal Shelter 1
Kittens wait at the Missoula Animal Control Shelter for new homes and owners on Friday. The shelter has reached capacity and now looks to Missoulians to adopt some of the 31 dogs and 49 cats there.
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Animals - Animal Shelter 2
From his perch in the shelter lobby, the Big Lebowski glances at visitors in between naps. According to shelter attendant Elaine Sehnert, Lebowski was returned to the shelter five years ago but because of his relaxed behavior, he is the only pet not up for adoption.
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Animals - Dog Show 1
Mary Ellen Guy of Littleton, Colo., sits next to her Bernese mountain dog Lily at the 58th annual Five Valley Kennel Club dog show on Tuesday. Although tired, Lily won Best in Breed as an 8-year-old veteran show dog.
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Animals - Dog Show 2
Edward Boyes and Taylor, a smooth fox terrier from Sacramento, Calif., relax while waiting to compete in the terrier group during the Five Valley Kennel Club Dog Show on Tuesday. Taylor went on to win the group and took second place in Best of Show.
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Animals - Dog Show 3
Virginia Bair of Klamath Falls, Ore., removes hair products from Glee's coat on Tuesday. Bair explained the importance of caring for a show dog's coat between events and commented that product is only in the dog's hair for a short time before and after shows.
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Wildfires - West Mullan Fire 1
A helicopter prepares a water drop in Water Gulch as flames climb the gulch’s east side at the West Mullan fire near Superior on Monday. The West Mullan fire started Sunday afternoon and rapidly expanded to 700 acres by Monday morning. Firefighters worked to burn out the southwest side of the fire to create a buffer zone for nearby homes.
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Wildfires - West Mullan Fire 1
A helicopter prepares a water drop in Water Gulch as flames climb the gulch’s east side at the West Mullan fire near Superior on Monday. The West Mullan fire started Sunday afternoon and rapidly expanded to 700 acres by Monday morning. Firefighters worked to burn out the southwest side of the fire to create a buffer zone for nearby homes.
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Wildfires - West Mullan Fire 2
A Neptune Aviation P2V air tanker drops fire retardant at the base of Charette Gulch while battling the West Mullan fire on Monday.
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Helicopter crews worked well into the evening Monday while trying to get control of the West Mullan fire.
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Wildfires - West Mullan Fire 4
Hugh Warford, task force leader for Montana Mutual Aid-Bitterroot Valley, de-briefs firefighters from several different departments at the end of the day on Monday. Warford commented that there were firefighters on the fire from Pinesdale, Corvallis, Stevensville and Florence as part of the mutual aid program.
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Alex and Nate Auer watch helicopters fight the West Mullan fire from Southside Road on Monday evening.
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Wildfires - West Mullan Fire 7
A firefighter uses a drip torch to start backfires in the grass above West Mullan Road while battling the 4,150-acre West Mullan fire in Superior on Thursday. The backfires are used to keep the main wildfire away from homes and structures.
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Wildfires - West Mullan Fire 8
An Eastgate fire crew from Helena waters neighborhoods as fires burned directly above Superior.
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Michelle Dahinden and her poodle Chipshot wait and watch as the West Mullan fire creeps toward her home in Superior on Thursday.
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Firefighter Todd Weidbusch looks up from watering homes and businesses as flames torch trees above Superior on Thursday.
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A helicopter works to put out hot spots along cliff walls above West Mullan Road on Thursday.
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Sports - Rodeo 2
Wyatt Bloom, left, and Duston Stephens rope a steer Thursday night during their last practice before the College National Finals Rodeo.
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Wyatt Bloom, left, and Duston Stephens rope a steer Thursday night during their last practice before the College National Finals Rodeo.
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Kalispell’s Teigan Avery, 15, contemplates her putt on the seventh hole of the Missoula Country Club golf course during the Montana Junior Golf Championships on Monday. Avery, a sophomore-to-be at Glacier High School, has been playing golf for six years.
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Stephens and Bloom rope another steer at the Mytty ranch on Wednesday night while polishing their skills for CNFR.
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Sports - Rodeo 5
Kory Mytty stands in the starting gate during practice on Thursday night. Mytty is the first-year coach of the UM rodeo team and has extensive experience he passes along to the athletes he coaches.
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Will Daniel pilots his mountain bike through mud during a warm spring afternoon in the Rattlesnake bike jump area.
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Robert Durkee flies through the air after hitting one of the Rattlesnake area bike jumps.
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Grant Woody leaps into the air while defending against the Sentinel Spartans on Tuesday. The Knights and Spartans went on tie 1-1 after a very close second half.
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Sports - Lady Griz 1
Lady Griz basketball player Kenzie De Boer looks for a shot against Utah Stat player Brooke Jackson during the game Novermber 30 in the Adams Center. The Lady Griz played a defensive game coming back to win in the second half of the game 61-60.
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Lady Griz Basketball coach Robin Selvig reacts to foul called against one of his players during the game against the Utah State Aggies on November 30th. The Lady Griz played a defensive game coming back to win in the second half of the game 61-60.
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John Pape makes his way through untracked powder above Las Leñas ski area in the Andes Mountains in Argentina.
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Professional Skier, James Heim, drops a cliff in the backcountry near Las Leñas ski area in the Andes Mountains of Argentina.
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Sports - Rodeo 3
Stephens and Bloom make their way back to the starting gate last Wednesday night. The pair had never roped together before Wednesday.
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Sports - Las Leñas 1
Campers with South America Snow Sessions take a moment to look out on the valley below them before descending down on of Las Leñas' many steep descents.
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Sports - Andrew Burns 1
Professional Snowboarder Andrew Burns rides a steep and narrow chute near Bariloche ski area in Argentina's Patagonia range.
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Cody Ellison wears a custom Montana Madcow Jersey made by Raza paintball and Proto paintball pants. In this photo he sports a V-Force Grill mask. In paintball marker styles also contribute to the fashion of the player, here Ellison uses a Planet Eclipse Etha topped with a Dye Rotor loader. Raza can be found online at www.razalife.com, the Etha marker can be found at www.planeteclipse.com and Proto pants as well as the Dye Rotor can be found at www.dyepaintball.com. The mask can be found on V-Force's website http://www.dxspaintball.com/VForce-Paintball-Masks.aspx
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