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Ty's Take Our fire departments are training together at the new Fireboot Camp, Town Pump's throwing three-quarters of a million dollars at the problem, and nobody's pretending this is some feel-good story about community spirit—it's survival math. Wildfire season doesn'
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Ty's Take The Eagles Nest has been part of Red Lodge's skyline longer than most of us have been alive, and watching it sit there broken after last year's floods has been like watching a neighbor's house fall into disrepair—you keep
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Ty's Take The news out of Washington on the Forest Service budget cuts hits different when you're sitting in a town that exists because of what grows on those mountains—timber, water, recreation, all of it tied to how the feds manage what's up
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Ty's Take A University of Montana researcher out studying how those big atmospheric river storms actually recharge groundwater in the West—that's the kind of work that matters more than most people realize when you're living on top of your water rights and watching
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Ty's Take The Forest Service rolling out a new app to route hikers and hunters through the high country makes sense—Lord knows we need folks using trails smart, especially with how fire season keeps creeping earlier. But that same day's story about food insecurity in
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Ty's Take Summer tourist season is already on everybody's mind up here, which makes sense—it's the difference between a good year and a lean one for most of the businesses holding on in Red Lodge. The Park Service released their visitor guide for
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Ty's Take Norrine turning 96 and still got the spark to celebrate it—that's the kind of staying power this town runs on, whether you're talking about a woman they call the Outlaw Queen or the businesses cutting ribbons and opening new chapters around
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Ty's Take May up here was one of those months that reminds you why we stay—warm enough to get the high country roads open, wet enough that the fire danger didn't spike like it's been doing the last few years, and the kind
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Ty's Take A University of Montana researcher digging into how atmospheric rivers work their way across the arid West is doing what a lot of us in Carbon County have been wondering about for years—figuring out where the water actually comes from when it matters most. Those
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Ty's Take Summer's coming early to the planning stages around here, which means the phones at the chamber are already ringing with folks trying to figure out the Yellowstone puzzle. The park puts out these lists every couple years—parking tips, trail conditions, when the geysers
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Ty's Take A grizzly working the country south of town is a reminder that we live in a place where the wild still has first claim on the land, and it changes how you think about everything else—your evening walk, your kid's summer camp, the
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Ty's Take Water's been a conversation at every coffee shop counter in this valley for years now, and when the town has to shut it off—even for maintenance, even for a few hours—it reminds everyone why. Red Lodge sits where it does because of