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Editor, I have been following the debate over the beaver situation in our Hill County Beaver Creek Park. We are losing a tremendous amount of trees and access to the creek itself by a common rodent. The beaver. Now that the anti-trapping people and other humane special interest groups have been called to graciously help solve our problem there have been many questions left unanswered. 1. How much will these Beaver Deceivers, pond levelers, cost? (I was told it was $12-15,000 each. 2. What is the effective range of a Beaver...
As local conflict over the future of beaver population management in Beaver Creek Park continues, a billboard sponsored by Trap Free Montana Public Lands has been set up on U.S. Highway 2 at the east end of town. The Hill County Park Board's Rules and Regulations Committee has been holding a series of meetings meant to gauge the public's opinion on the long-controversial issue of beaver trapping, which some argue is the only efficient way of controlling beaver populations in...
Editor, Hopefully most of the citizenry of Havre have become aware of the billboard along the highway east of Havre. If not, please check it out. The billboard was paid for by an anti-trapping organization, “Trap Free Montana Public Lands” based in Hamilton. Their anti-trapping activity has been concentrated mostly in the western part of the state. It seems coincidentally suspicious that a billboard with a message to “Protect Beaver” appears in Havre while meetings addressing the management of beaver in Beaver Creek Park th...
The Hill County Park Board met Monday evening and discussed a number of issues surrounding Beaver Creek Park, but the most immediate was the need to stabilize the lodge. Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar said Friends of Beaver Creek Park recently helped pay for an architect and an engineer to come up to look at the lodge to evaluate its stability which has been a concern for some time. Edgar said they told him the lodge is at risk and he decided to make stabilizing...
Hill County Park Board will meet at the Community Building on the Great Northern Fairgrounds at 5:30 p.m. Monday, May 3. 1. Approval of minutes 2. Approval of agenda Special: Board appointments Restructuring of the board 3. Guests and public comments on agenda items only and agenda requests for next meeting 4. Cabin business No. 18 Quarter Gulch No. 12 Quarter Gulch 5. Old business Monitoring progress South cross fence/cattleguard 6. New business Budget requests Frank English requests Cabin inspections Lions Campground...
Management of natural resources needs to be a long-view and long-term proposition. This is not to say that some short-term issues cannot be addressed with temporary short-term action. In managing uses, economic opportunity and values of natural resources, there are and needs to be multiple “tools” available. Limiting ourselves to one tool is not in natural resource values or our best interest. Rarely do natural resource management challenges have single “silver bullet” solutions. In practice managing natural resourc...
Hill County Park Board will meet at the Community Building on the Great Northern Fairgrounds at 5:30 p.m. Monday, May 3. 1. Approval of minutes 2. Approval of agenda Special: Board appointments Restructuring of the board 3. Guests and public comments on agenda items only and agenda requests for next meeting 4. Cabin business No. 18 Quarter Gulch No. 12 Quarter Gulch 5. Old business Monitoring progress South cross fence/cattleguard 6. New business Budget requests Frank English requests Cabin inspections Lions Campground...
The Hill County Park Board’s Rules and Regulations Committee held a meeting Wednesday with strong viewpoints expressed on both sides regarding the future of the board’s methods of beaver population control in Beaver Creek Park. The meeting was the second in a series that will be held by the committee meant to gauge the public’s opinion on the long-controversial issue of beaver trapping, which some argue is the only efficient way of controlling beaver populations in Beaver Creek Park. Others argue that lethal trapping is in...
Havre Daily News staff The potluck meeting of Hill County Park Board normally held in May in Beaver Creek Park has been postponed. The May park board meeting will be held in Community Building at Great Northern Fairgrounds. The meeting agenda will be released next week....
Bearpaw Bowmen Archery Club is holding its Spring 3D Archery Shoot Sunday at Eagles Campground in Beaver Creek Park. The 25 3D targets - life-sized animal targets - will be a variety of sizes from the archery club's collection, which includes everything from small rabbits to big game and even a Sasquatch, club President Clyde R. Thomas Jr. said. And the shooting distances will be anywhere from 3 feet to 70 yards. "That's why they have these 3D shoots is to get people into...
At Thursday’s county officials meeting Hill County Public Health Director and Health Officer Kim Larson said due to a lack of attendance the Hill County Health Department will retire its COVID-19 vaccination clinics at the end of this month. Larson said the clinics have only been drawing 50 people for the last few weeks, so the remaining clinics’ hours will be reduced to noon to 5 p.m. at Holiday Village Mall for the remainder of their time in operation. She said the department will split their remaining vaccine supply bet...
The Hill County Park Board’s Rules and Regulations Committee will hold its next meeting to examine beaver population control at Beaver Creek Park Wednesday, April 21, at 6 p.m. in the 4-H Chuckwagon at the Great Northern Fairgrounds. The meeting is being held for members of the public to voice their perspectives on the topic and what direction they think the board should take in the future. A similar meeting was held last month, where proponents and opponents of non-lethal beaver trapping alternatives spoke to the c...
Beaver Creek Park usage is steadily increasing, Superintendent Chad Edgar said at the Hill County Park Board meeting Monday. Edgar also let the board know that the south end cattle guard replacement has been delayed because the road department no longer wants to install it due to liability issues, further delaying the completion of the south cross fence. The board will be working with a contractor to replace the cattle guard in the future. Edgar provided a park update that...
At their weekly business meeting Thursday the Hill County Commission held the first reading of a county Social Host Ordinance, which, due to an error by the commission, was not officially held at their meeting March 18 that was originally intended to be the first reading. The ordinance would make it a violation for the social host of a party or event who knows, or reasonably should know, that underage people are drinking alcohol to not make reasonable attempt prevent it. The ordinance states that the host does not need to be...
The Hill County Park Board will hold its monthly meeting Monday in the Great Northern Fairgrounds Community Center. The meeting agenda is: 1) Approval of minutes 2) Approval of agenda 3) Guests and public comments on agenda items only and agenda requests for the next meeting 4) Cabin business #12 Mooney Coulee #24 Mooney Coulee 5) Old business Monitoring progress South cross fence Wind damage and insurance claim Memorial bench 6) New business Potluck meeting date and location Budget requests 7) Committee reports Rules and...
The Hill County Park Board will hold its monthly meeting Monday in the Great Northern Fairgrounds Community Center. The meeting agenda is: 1) Approval of minutes 2) Approval of Agenda 3) Guests and public comments on agenda items only and agenda requests for the next meeting 4) Cabin business #12 Mooney Coulee #24 Mooney Coulee 5) Old business Monitoring progress South cross fence Wind damage and insurance claim Memorial bench 6) New business Potluck meeting date and location Budget requests 7) Committee reports Rules and...
by Keith J. Doll Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission Part 2 of a 2-part series During the first part of February 1921, the Rev. Leonard J. Christler was sent a telegram from St. John's Episcopal Church in Auburn, New York, his former field. It was a call for him to come back to his field and be the rector of St. John's Episcopal Church. The Rev. Christler declined the offer. In March of that year, they notified him again to come back to his former field. This...
A story in Tuesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News about a Hill County Park Board committee hearing comments on control of beaver in Beaver Creek Park characterized Lou Hagener as a long-time advocate of non-lethal control of beaver. Hagener said that early in his natural resources management carreer he was a tacit supporter of lethal trapping but, after 40 years in the business, came to realize he was being closed-minded and that natural processes are something to work with and not against....
Editor’s note: This version clarifies that cabin owner Fran Buell was not speaking as a member of the Montana Trappers Association and removes a characterization of Lou Hagener as a long-time advocate of non-lethal beaver control. The Hill County Park Board's Rules and Regulations Committee held a meeting Monday evening to hear public testimony regarding the future of the board's methods of beaver population control. Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson lead the meeting a...
An article about Hill County Park Board’s Rules and Regulation Committee holding a meeting to collect information on beaver management in Beaver Creek Park published in Tuesday’s edition of Havre Daily News did not make it clear that cabin owner Fran Buell, who is a member of Montana Trappers Association, was speaking as a cabin owner and not speaking for the association....
The Hill County Park Board's Rules and Regulations Committee will hold a meeting Monday, March 22, at 6 p.m. in the Hill County Courthouse Annex for the public to voice their perspectives on beaver population control in Beaver Creek Park and what direction the board should take in the future. Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson said this will be the first in a series of meetings that will take place before the committee and board make any decisions on potential changes to...
Havre Police Department Leann Ahenakew Gardipee of Havre, 44, was arrested on four Justice or City court warrants and a charge of obstructing a peace officer or other public servant and Clayton Duncan Gardipee Sr. of Havre, 47, was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant during a vehicle stop on 11th Street West Friday at 8:21 a.m. -- Officers investigated a Friday 9:01 a.m. report of a possible domestic disturbance on First Street Northeast. -- A caller at a Second...
A survey aimed at gauging the public's level of knowledge of harmful algal blooms will begin today, as part of a larger project to address the issue of the blooms in Beaver Creek Park. Montana State University Northern Professor Terri Hildebrand and Co-Principal Researcher Erica McKeon-Hanson, also a member of the Hill County Board of Health, are leading the project, with the former focused on studying the issue itself and the latter focused on the survey and community...
Montana State University-Northern Professor Terri Hildebrand presented to the Hill County Park Board Monday an overview of her findings regarding water chemistry in Beaver Creek Park and the potential for toxic algal blooms to occur. Hildebrand said she’s been taking readings from six sites on Beaver Creek Park since 2019 and the waters’ high phosphorus levels could prove to be a serious issue, leading to these toxic blooms. She said algae tends to thrive and populate out of control in phosphorus-rich water and while many kin...
