Montana governor Judy Martz, center, is flanked on her right by Seeley Lake Ranger Tim Love and on her left by Jack Copps, Seeley Lake member of the local monitoring team on the Clearwater Stewardship Project.
Twenty Years Ago...
June 26, 2003
Governors, national officials focus on Seeley Lake project.
Flanked by a contingent of police cars and unmarked security cars, governors from five western states along with national and regional forest officials traveled to Seeley Lake Wednesday, June 18, to view a pioneering U.S. Forest Service project, the Clearwater Stewardship Project, that has been touted as a national model.
The day trip started at the Lubrecht Experimental Forest, then moved on to Pyramid Mountain Lumber in Seeley Lake, lunch at Big Larch Campground and sight-seeing at the Clearwater Stewardship Project north of Seeley Lake where the U.S. Forest Service contracted a timber sale with Pyramid in exchange for campground improvements, removal of miles of backcountry roads, and other projects that Pyramid then subcontracted with local people and businesses.
The heavily guarded convoy of six school buses and a Beachliner transported nearly 300 people in Missoula for the Western Governors Association summit on Forest Health, hosted by Montana Governor Judy Martz.
Thirty Five Years Ago...
June 30, 1988
Seeley Lake's first bass tourney a success.
Biologists tag several fish for future studies.
They didn't catch quite as many fish as they had hoped for. And the big ones, as usual, got away during the first-ever bass fishing tournament held in Seeley Lake last Sunday.
In fact, all of the fish got away during the tournament. "Catch-and-release" was the rule of the day and live bait was outlawed for tournament entrants. Most of the bass which were caught didn't even reach the shores of Seeley Lake but were checked, measured and released out in the lake by the official tournament boaters.
The biggest fish caught on Sunday measured 18 ½ inches long and weighed about 4 pounds. Thirty-two of the 69 fishermen who entered the event caught 69 bass during the 9-hour tournament.
Tom Ward of the Big Sky Bass Masters was excited about the turnout for the event. Sixty-nine people climbed into about 25 bass boats and headed for their favorite fishing holes at 6 a.m. sharp. The first fish was caught at about 6:05 a.m.
Don Peters, fisheries biologist with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, was obviously elated over the activities on Sunday. He spent the better part of the day tagging fish and taking scale samples.
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