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To Keep and T PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY GREG LINDSTROM | FLATHEAD BEACON
he list of reasons to carry and five in Yellowstone National a gun in Glacier National Park in the past century. Those Park is a short one, and parks average one grizzly attack
W•O•R•D•S of the Week
AN INDEX OF RECENT NEWSMAKERS
CURTIS
A little known one-term state legislator and high school math teacher from Butte, Amanda Curtis, was selected Aug. 16 to replace embattled Sen. John Walsh as the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate. Curtis, 34, will face Republican Rep. Steve Daines in November.
FERGUSON
The eyes of a nation have focused on a St. Louis suburb following the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a police officer more than a week ago. Since then, police and protesters have regularly faced off in an explosion of nightly violence. This week, President Barack Obama dis- patched the attorney general to the Missouri community to investigate what happened.
MEGALOAD
A massive piece of oil refinery equipment is moving through the Flathead Valley this week. As of Aug. 18, the megaload was sitting at the Idaho- Montana border.
SUPERINTENDENTS
Four area school districts welcome new top educators as the school year begins next week. (STORIES, PAGE 18 & 20)
Bear Arms
Four years after a federal gun law triggered visitors’ ability to carry loaded guns in national
may have been exhausted in the span of a few weeks this summer.
In separate incidents on July 26 and again on Aug. 10, two firearms were discharged with- in park boundaries – the first
with injuries a year, a figure that pales in comparison to the num- ber of injuries sustained by vis- itors in climbing falls and other accidents.
Still, nothing seems to sum- mon the urge to carry a gun in Glacier National Park more than the specter of a grizzly encounter.
The number of grizzlies has rebounded since the 1970s and, although they still are listed as a threatened species, it’s no longer
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parks, two recent shooting incidents bring the by a hiker shooting at what he
scope of the measure into Glacier’s sights By TRISTAN SCOTT
reported to be a charging bear that was undeterred by a blast of pepper spray, and the second in an effort to summon help for an injured hiker on Mount Siyeh.
Grizzlies are the undisputed bosses of the backcountry, and have killed 10 people in Glacier
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