Category: montana

  • Sun Breaking Through

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sunbreak08042007?full=1'><img width='640' height='426' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunbreak08042007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The sun rising on another day. I loved the colors. Taken 8/4/2007.</center>

  • Lucky or Good?

    A little fire news for the state.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/13/news/state/20-fires.txt" >Fires scorch Montana, Yellowstone areas</a><br />n<br />nReading this I am of course more drawn to my area and how the fires that started Friday night by the same storm as our fire are doing.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Meanwhile, the largest fire in the area was considered 100…

  • Fire risk still high in East

    <br /><a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/11/news/state/26-firerisks.txt">BillingsGazette.com :: Fire risk still high in East</a><br />n<br />nThis story just points out how explosive the situation is here in Eastern Montana. It also points out the importance of the first strike on a fire.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Eastern Montana has been spared a large fire so far this summer due to stepped up…

  • Politics

    The Republicans in the state are really trying to make political hay over Gov. Schweitzer's <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/07/news/state/35-attack.txt">veto of firefighter tax breaks</a> now that fire season is really on us. This is blatantly politics and anybody with half a brain would realize this. Why didn't the Republicans make such a big issue out of it when…

  • Sunset

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/sunrise/sunset07242007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/sunrise/sunset07242007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Sunset in Montana. Taken 7/27/2007. </center>

  • Haze

    <center><!– s9ymdb:108 –><img width='540' height='540' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/smoke2007210.jpg" alt="" /></center><br />n<br />nIt has been real hazy and smoky around here for the last few days. That is thanks to the fires in Western Montana. This picture shows the smoke cloud all over the state. I am always amazed when I see…

  • Step Backwards

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/07/31/news/state/30-caucus.txt" >Montana Republicans eye caucus in February</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Montana Republicans would hold a presidential caucus Feb. 5, 2008, four months before the state's increasingly meaningless June presidential primary, under a proposal released Monday by Chairman Erik Iverson.<br />n<br />n…..<br />n<br />nIt would make 2,262 Republicans statewide eligible to vote in caucuses. The list would…

  • Study

    The <http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/">National Highway Traffic Safety Administration</a> recently sponsored a study about what were peoples final words when they were in a SUV crash. I know, weird thing to study but you know the government. They found something very interesting in this study. Throughout the US, with the exception of Montana, the last thing people said…

  • Brucellosis Free

    <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=147391" >Cattle Health: <acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> Changes Idaho’s Brucellosis Status To Class Free</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is amending its brucellosis regulations concerning the interstate movement of cattle by changing Idaho’s classification from Class…

  • Condemnation

    I see that the Montana Board of Livestock has ordered the Bridger herd of cattle that had Brucellosis in it <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/07/12/news/state/22-cattle.txt">slaughtered</a>. That's tough for all concerned. The Board of Livestock needs to be thinking about the whole cattle industry in the state and in the process a couple of cattle producers are getting run…