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FEBRUARY 5, 2014 | VOL. 8 NO. 6
The Patrol
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For decades an elite group of skiers has worked to keep
Big Mountain safe for visitors, on good days and bad.
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Eric Sjoden, assistant patrol
director, sweeps the mountain
with other ski patrol members at
the end of the day.
GREG LINDSTROM | FLATHEAD BEACON
From Recovery
MONTANA’S
FARM REFORM
PLOWS FORWARD
BASS MASTER
to Expansion,
After a two-year stalemate, federal farm
Economic Outlook subsidies bill moves toward inal passage Tim Johnston of Kalispell
to compete in world’s most
Keeps Brightening
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prestigious professional ishing
tournament
Flathead’s economy PAGE 58
picked up steam last
year, spurring hopes
that the momentum will
continue into 2014
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