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The Eagle Creek Fire in the Bear Paw Mountains appears to be fairly well under control, with the resources deployed to fight the fire headed home at the end of shift today, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation Montana Forest Action Plan Project Manager Wyatt Frampton said this morning. Frampton said the fire is 95 percent contained, and although local firefighters will be keeping a close eye on it, the main job of firefighting is done. The incident commander as of last Tuesday, Robert Smith, said it was...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the size of the fire in the subheadline. Work on the Eagle Creek Fire continues with the firefighting perimeter continuing to grow. The perimeter was estimated at 40 percent Sunday and the Inciweb reporting site Tuesday reported the perimeter 60 percent contained. The site has reported the size of the fire at 7,225 acres since Sunday evening. Incident Commander Robert Smith said Tuesday the land crews are primarily working on the edges t...
9:45 a.m. Hill County Disaster and Emergency Services Coordinator Amanda Frickel said this morning that a full attack continues on the Eagle Creek Fire in the Bear Paw Mountains. Frickel said the fire, first detected on Mount Baldy Wednesday afternoon on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, was estimated this morning at 8,200 acres. She said containment is estimated at 60 percent off the reservation and 30 percent on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. Frickel said about 150 personnel...
The fire in the Bear Paw Mountains that was reported at 2,000 acres this morning -- but growing rapidly -- was listed at 8,500 acres this afternoon, with Hill County Disaster and Emergency Services reporting at 2 p.m. that it was 45 percent contained but Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation reporting at about 1 p.m. zero percent containment on the reservation side. A post about 1 p.m. on the Chippewa Creek Tribe Facebook page said the fire, which started on the reservation on Mount...
A fire started on Mount Baldy Wednesday and, while fire crews and law enforcement across the three counties the fire has spread to are responding, information on the fire remains somewhat scarce. Chippewa Cree Business Committee Chair Harlan Baker said, according to this morning's update, the fire had reached 2,000 acres but the fire has since spread significantly and that number is now very outdated. Baker said Rocky Boy has sent crews to fight the fire and air tankers from...
David Joseph "Jay" Meyers Sr., 71, passed away due to natural causes at his residence Sunday, September 4, 2022. Wake services began at 3:00 p.m. Monday, September 5, 2022, and will continue until his funeral service, which will be at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, September 7, 2022, all at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church. Burial will follow in the Meyers Family Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Jay's online memorial page to send...
Havre Daily News staff The Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians have announced its 11th annual powwow, set for Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 27-28, at Centene Stadium, 1025 25th St. North, Great Falls. Registration is required. Vending spaces are available, with registration required for that as well. The powwow includes 50/50 tickets available for purchase. Saturday’s events start with the 5 kilometer “Ojibwe Jog” at 8 a.m. and a pipe ceremony at 9 a.m. Saturday has two grand entries, the first at noon and the second at 7 p.m...
Havre Police Department A caller at Sixth Avenue and Sixth Street found a phone Wednesday at 7:32 a.m. -- Elizabeth Irene Doney of Harlem, 43, was arrested on a criminal contempt charge related to a 24/7 Sobriety Program no show reported Wednesday at 8:04 a.m. -- A child's sled was found on U.S. Highway 2 East at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday. -- A caller at a First Street business reported a theft from a vehicle Wednesday at 3:31 p.m. -- An altercation at a U.S. Highway 2 East...
Havre Daily News staff A free Hunter Safety class is being offered by Chippewa Cree Tribe Fish and Wildlife. Set for Monday, Aug. 22, through Thursday, Aug. 25, the four sessions will be 6-9 p.m. each day at Stone Child College in the Kennewash Building. The course is for people 11 years of age and older, and they must attend all four sessions to meet tribal and Montana state certification guidelines. A parent of guardian must accompany minors on the first day to provide a signature. Masks are required, as well, to attend....
Press release A memorial to a rodeo icon at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation was held this summer. Joe Big Knife Memorial Switch End Roping was held in June at Billy Lamere Arena at Rocky Boy. Big Knife died Dec. 24, 2018, at age 85. Big Knife was the father of rodeo at Rocky Boy, Jack Nystrom said. He enjoyed calf roping; ranching, raising cows and horses, and mentoring young cowboys and cowgirls. His brand was -OX R.H. Big Knife helped neighbors, family and friends, and also...
Stone Child College at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation hosted an educational conference this week with high-profile visitors including a county commissioner from Houston returning to the college for this week's conference. Harris County, Texas, Commissioner Adrian Garcia, who came to Stone Child last fall for meetings on creating a cultural exchange and community partnership, participated in the inaugural Anishinaabe-Neiyo Education Conference Tuesday through Thursday and is...
A group of Rocky Boy elders, community members, and mental health professionals are setting up the inaugural Chippewa Cree Youth Cultural Education and Healing Conference Wednesday and Thursday at the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation Celebration Grounds. The event will feature breakout sessions designed to teach local Native American youth about their people's history, traditions and language, which local mental health providers believe can significantly improve young people's...
The annual Chippewa Cree Celebration is back in full swing for 2022 on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation this week. After the events were canceled in 2020 due to COVID-19 and limited community events last year - including a powwow that was very popular with the Havre public, hosted by Northern Winz Casino in conjunction with the 2021 Great Northern Fair - 2022 will finally see a full slate of events on Rocky Boy, including a youth conference and powwow, the Rocky Boy Powwow, a...
In the wake of last week’s flooding in Beaver Creek Park and some areas north of Havre, the Hill County Commission has not made a decision about whether to declare a disaster for the floods. Earlier this month the commission declared a disaster for the drought conditions, but Monday morning Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson said they are still evaluating this situation and no decision regarding another disaster declaration, and no decision on any emergency tax that declaration might entail has been made. Disaster d...
After months of drought, an atmospheric river finally brought some moisture to this part of Montana - too much in the Bear Paw Mountains, leading to restricted access on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation and again flooding parts of Beaver Creek Park. The area had seen a few years of moisture shortages and drought conditions, with some local ranchers selling off stock by the start of May and looking to see if they needed to sell more and some local crop producers saying their...
The Natural Resources Department of the Chippewa Cree Tribe on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation said Friday afternoon that restrictions still were in place due to high water levels from rain earlier in the week. Some parts of the mountains received more than 6 inches by Wednesday, leading to restrictions and flooding on Beaver Creek Park. The post on the tribe's Facebook page Friday said the following restrictions would remain in place until further notice in both the Beaver Creek and Big Sandy Creek areas on the r...
After a several-month dry spell, this region finally has seen some rain - but rain that fell fast enough to again cause flooding in the Bear Paw Mountains. After a downpour in the mountains - Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar said they received more than 3 inches at Camp Kiwanis on the park and he heard more than 6 inches fell farther south - Beaver Creek burst over its banks Wednesday, flooding campsites and access roads. The Chippewa Cree Tribe Natural Resources De...
Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar said the park took a pretty hard hit with flooding Wednesday, but he and his crews are out working to get roads and campsites ready for weekend recreation. Edgar said a few small campsites and the Lions B campground were hit very hard, and other sites were flooded as well. He said at least one road is destroyed and others took damage, but the park crews are working on them. He said the culvert to Rotary Pond and the Jaycees...
The past few days' rain overwhelmed the Bear Paw Mountains, leading an agency on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation to close access to some parts of the mountains and leading to flooding on Beaver Creek Park. Comments from Beaver Creek Park staff were not available by printing deadline Wednesday evening. The Chippewa Cree Tribe's Natural Resource Department said in a post on the tribe's official Facebook page that the rainfall had caused a rise in all creeks. Because of that, it...
As Beaver Creek Park sees some flooding on campsites, Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation are restricting access to some parts of the Bear Paw Mountains due to flooding. The Chippewa Cree Tribe Natural Resource Department announced in a post on the tribe's official Facebook page that it was declaring closure of the Bear Paw Mountains in both the Beaver Creek and Big Sandy Creek areas until further notice. The post said the deprartment wojuld reevaluate the situation Friday....
Montana’s Primary Election will be held Tuesday, June 7, and Hill County has set up polling places across the county where people can vote in person, or bring their absentee ballots. Hill County Clerk and Recorder Sue Armstrong said people who have already filled out their ballots can bring them to any polling place they want, as well as the Hill County Courthouse, but if they intend to vote in person they need to go to the polling place designated for their precinct. People who live in precincts 1, 7, 8 and 9 can go to the H...
Out our way, hunting strays goes with the trade. Most calves stick close to Mama and the herd, but now and again a stray "dogie" wanders off and gets lost. This is especially true with open range cattle that populate the Beaver Creek area for a time each year. I was taking "Doc" to the Dumas homestead up in the Bear Paws which borders the Beaver Creek and the Rocky Boy's Indian/Chippewa Cree reservation. Various crews were working cattle and getting them out of the back...
Staff and wire report Havre Trails has invited people to a hike up Centennial Mountain on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation Saturday, June 11. "It is a gorgeous view at the summit and a moderate to difficult 4.6 mile round trip hike up a two-track road switchbacking up the mountain," a Havre Trails release said. Meeting time/place for Havre residents: 8:30 a.m. at the District 4 Human Resources Development Council parking lot in Havre, 2229 Fifth Ave. Hikers will caravan out to...
by Alan Sorensen Friends of the Bear Paw Marathon will host a pre-marathon carbo-loading spaghetti banquet for runners and their friends and families from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, June 3, 2022, at the Eagles Club in Havre, the day before the second annual marathon. The meal will be dedicated to the memory of long-time area running enthusiast and run sponsor Ignatius George "Iggy" Stiffarm of Fort Belknap, who passed away on March 2 of this year after a years-long battle with ALS....
U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana GREAT FALLS — A Michigan man suspected of working with other Detroit-area individuals to distribute fentanyl on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation admitted to a trafficking crime Thrusday, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said. Brandon Lamar Louis James of Southfield, Michigan, 22, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances. James faces a maximum of 20 years in prison, a $1 million fine and at least three years of supervised release. Chief U.S. Dis...
