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Building Ice

Its official. Fort Peck Reservoir has frozen over. I drove

across the face of the dam on Tuesday afternoon at
4:00 and there was no open water, said Darin McMurry,
Operations Project Manager (OPM) for the Fort Peck
Dam Project. I checked again yesterday to make
sure the wind didnt open it back up, but it didnt. So
thats what I sent to regional headquarters, that it froze
over on January 3rd. The above photo was taken at
approximately 4:30 Wednesday afternoon and, off in the
distance, one can already see where pressure ridges
may be forming.

Fort Peck Reservoir, we all need a little reminder from

time to time that Fort Peck Dam is the first dam built in the
upper Missouri River Basin. The area surrounding Fort
Peck was first charted by Lewis and Clark in 1804, and
the pristine natural condition of the river and surrounding
area awed the renowned explorers.

While those of us living here know the basic history of

Please see Fort Peck, back page

The Old Fort Peck trading post was built in 1867 on a

narrow ledge of shale about 35 feet above the river, its
rear wall abutting the hillside. The front of the stockade
was so close to the ledge that it was an effective
steamboat landing for sternwheelers that made frequent

Today is National Bird Day

Dec. 29- Jan. 5

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DC trippers to meet Sunday

There will be a DC Trip meeting on Sunday, January
8th at 1:30 p.m. in room 4 at the Glasgow High School.

Late Nite Laffs

Jacksonville Jaguars coach Gus Bradley was fired after the

team lost nine games in a row. Or as the Cleveland Browns
put it, So hes available? ~ Jimmy Fallon
Health officials say theres a new trend of women using
marijuana during their pregnancy. Which explains why this
years most popular baby name is Funyuns. ~ Conan
OBrien
Donald Trump tweeted at North Korea after they announced
plans to test an intercontinental nuclear weapon. Trump
tweeted, It wont happen. Id like to believe hes right, but
It wont happen is exactly what everyone said about Trump
becoming president. ~ James Corden
NBC is launching an all-Olympic channel next year. It will
feature the Summer Games, the Winter Games, and two
years of commercials in between. ~ Jimmy Fallon

FRIDAY

Soup: Clam Chowder Chili

Specials:

Shrimp Basket
Turkey Burger

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If you already have your free BS Central desk

pad, you would know that today is National Bird Day.
National Bird Day takes place on January 5th
each year, as its scheduled to coincide with the end
of the annual Christmas Bird Count.
Prior to the turn of the 20th century, hunters
engaged in a holiday tradition known as the Christmas
Side Hunt. They would choose sides and go afield
with their gunswhoever brought in the biggest pile
of feathered (and furred) quarry won.
Conservation was in its beginning stages
in that era, and many observers and scientists
were becoming concerned about declining bird
populations. Beginning on Christmas Day 1900,
ornithologist Frank M. Chapman, an early officer in
the then-nascent Audubon Society, proposed a new
holiday traditiona Christmas Bird Census that
would count birds during the holidays rather than
hunt them. So began the Christmas Bird Count.
From December 14 through January 5 each
year, tens of thousands of volunteers throughout the
Americas brave snow, wind, or rain, and take part
in the effort. Audubon and other organizations use
data collected in this long-running wildlife census
to assess the health of bird populations, and to help
guide conservation action. It is the longest running
citizen science survey in the world that helps to
monitor the health of our nations birds. Birders and
the public go out and count as many birds as they can
see during the count.
Avid birder and exceptional bird photographer
Chuck Carlson heads up the annual Christmas Bird
Count at Fort Peck and has been doing this for umteen
years. Along with a Christmas Bird Count in Miles
City, these are Montanas most eastern locations as
most of them occur in the western part of the state.
Once that period ends, we begin to focus on
captive birds (who mainly consist of bird species that
are native to other countries, but who are kept in
captivity in the U.S.). January 5 is the new beginning
for captive birds!
If you stop in and gift yourself a BC Central
desk pad (a 12-month desk calendar that features
community events such as the New Trends in
Agriculture Seminar on Wednesday, January 11th),
you would also learn that January 6th is National
Bean Day. Please stop by the Buzz headquarters
(across the street from United Insurance) and get
your free desk pads.

Stag & Doe

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Dangerous
wind chills
continue

Wind gusts of 15 to 25 mph coupled with cold

temperatures will create hazardous wind chill
temperatures again tonight. Air temperature will
remain cold for the foreseeable future with highs in the
single digits below zero to the teens above zero and with
lows in the range of upper teens below zero to the single
digits below zero.
Tonight: A 30 percent chance of snow, mainly after 11pm.
Mostly cloudy, with a low around -1. Wind chill values
between -10 and -15. South wind around 6 mph becoming
north northwest after midnight. New snow accumulation of
less than a half inch possible.
Friday: A 30 percent chance of snow, mainly before 11am.
Cloudy, with a high near 8. Wind chill values between -5 and
-10. North northeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming east in the
afternoon. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch
possible.

Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of snow before 11pm.

Mostly cloudy, with a low around -12. Wind chill values
between -15 and -25. East wind 6 to 8 mph.

Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 6. East southeast

wind around 8 mph.
Saturday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around -7. East
wind around 10 mph.

Sunday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 12. East wind 6 to

9 mph becoming northwest in the morning.
Sunday Night: A chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low around
-3.
Monday: A chance of snow after 11am. Cloudy, with a high
near 13.

Monday Night: Snow likely, mainly before 11pm. Cloudy,

with a low around 2.
Tuesday: A chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near
11.

Tuesday Night: A chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low

around -5.
Wednesday: A chance of snow. Cloudy, with a high near 10.

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Cancer has Reared

Its Ugly Head Again!

Rosa Frost, (Pac Man Dans wife) has been diagnosed with Lymphoma
Cancer and is currently being treated in Billings for the next 3 months.

Benefit Auction for Rosa Frost

Saturday, January 14 6:00 PM
Glasgow Elks Lodge

The auction will be conducted by Austin Auctions (Auzzy).

If you would like to donate an items(s) for a live/silent auction to benefit the Frost
Family, please drop them off with Ken Jansa at Valley Bank or Stu Frost at Tire-Rama.

A benefit account has been set up at Valley Bank

if you would like to make a monetary donation.
Thank you Very Much for your support of Rosa, Dan, Nathan and Yolanda
and please keep them in your prayers and thoughts!

Letter to the Buzz

THE GOOD,BAD,UGLY, but GREAT
~facts, numbers, caution, opinion~

In my previous BUZZ article I summarized St.

Marie, a year in review. It exposed some folks dealing
in tomfoolery. Upon reflecting on that writing I
concluded that the POSITIVE ASPECTS of St. Marie
should also be noted and presented in an article. So
read on.....
BRIEF HISTORY- Many investors and developers
have come and gone, and a few linger. They havent
repaired or sold much inventory due to lack of demand.
CURRENT PRICES- Typically a ready-to-movein condo sells for between $15K and $25K. One may
buy a unit needing work and appliances (painting,
furnace, water heaters) for $2K to $10K from an owner.
CAUTIONS- Due Diligence, conduct an abstract
or preliminary title search $150 on interested
property. Typical look for restrictions, liens, and
other pertinent information.
HIGH VALUE for the BUCK- The units in tracts 4
and 5 were constructed with kiln dried lumber, copper
pipes, hard wood floors, a large steel eye beam across
the basement, and many other positive features. These
condos have natural gas, water and sewer lines to the
unit, sidewalks and street lights, telephone/computer,
and satellite TV available. Monthly utilities, fees, and
taxes are very reasonable and quite manageable.... In
Billings, Butte, Bozeman, Great Falls, Missoula, or
Helena, a comparable condo will typically cost $200K
to $350K.
~ Nick Chiechi - Due Diligence
~corrections, additions, facts, opinions welcomed~

The future of pheasants

The holiday season is usually a busy time for

everyone but dont forget to submit your application for
pheasant releases. Interested landowners may submit
their application before Jan. 15. Pen-reared pheasants are
released every year between Aug. 1 and Sept. 15.
Landowners may apply annually for up to five
consecutive years to establish pheasants. Projects must
comprise at least 100 contiguous acres of land and contain
a combination of habitat componentsincluding cover
and foodthat upland game birds need to survive.

Lands enrolled in the pheasant release program must
allow free public access to hunt upland game birds during
the season the releases take place. Hunting preserves,
lands that host a commercial hunting enterprise and
lands where hunting rights are leased or paid for are not
eligible.
Mail applications before Jan. 15, to: FWPWildlife
Division, P.O. Box 200701, Helena, MT 59620-0701.
Program pheasants are released between Aug. 1 and
Sept. 15.
For more information, and an on-line application
form, visit FWPs website at fwp.mt.govsearch Upland
Game Bird Enhancement Program, or contact Debbie
Hohler at: 406-444-5674, or by e-mail: dhohler@mt.gov.

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Fort Peck continued from front

trips upstream. But the site of the old stockade was lost
to the river near the turn of the century.
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the
Fort Peck project in 1933, thousands of people from all
over the country migrated to Montana during the midst of
the Great Depression in hopes of earning a living. More
than 7,000 men and women signed on to work on the
dam in 1934 and 1935. Employment peaked at nearly
11,000 dam workers in 1936, and thousands more
swarmed to Montana to set up businesses including
food markets, hardware stores, butcher shops, general
stores, saloons and brothels. More than eighteen
boomtowns sprang up in the vicinity, and the wild west
was reborn as a tiny and obscure township swelled from
a population of a few hundred to nearly 40,000 people.
Maj. Clark C. Kittrell, who served as Corps of Engineers
deputy district engineer at Fort Peck from 1933 to 1937
and as the district engineer from 1937 to 1940, defined
the complexity of the mission: No engineering job
of this magnitude had ever been attempted
with so short a time for planning.
New techniques had to be learned and developed as
rapidly as ingenuity would allow. Countless technical
problems arose and were solved. A shipyard, created
on site, quickly turned out the Fort Peck Navy, which
would dredge the river bottom and pump the slurry that
formed the dam. It was a quiet day, September 22,
1938, and work on the dam was going at a rapid pace.

The dam had been completed just two weeks before,

but there was murmuring among some of the men that
something was wrong with the dam. That afternoon,
the slide occurred and the east upstream section of
the dam was gone. On that tragic day at 1:15 p.m., the
earth started shaking, dredge pipes and railroad tracks
started shifting and sinking and a massive section of the
dam swung out into the upstream as if a great earthen
gate hinged on the east abutment. Machinery and men
alike were swallowed up in the moving, muddy hell and
five million cubic yards of earth slid out into the Missouri
River, forming its own island. Eight men lost their lives,
and six are still buried somewhere in the dam.
The Slide of 1938 is the single most memorable event
to occur during construction of the dam and delayed
completion of the dam for a little more than a year, but
on October 11, 1940, almost seven years to the day
after FDRs authorization the last load of material was
dumped on the dam, topping it out at 250.5 feet.
The legacy that is Fort Peck provides visitors a fascinating
look into yesteryear. The town of Fort Peck, now an
independent municipality, is a rare treasure. Neither
progress nor modernization can erase the etchings of
time that allow visitors a glimpse back at another era.
Many of the early buildings - some of which are listed
on the National Register of Historic Building - still stand,
symbols of a distant past, with an integrity that allows them
to function yet today. This includes the Fort Peck Theatre,
Fort Peck Hotel and Fort Peck Recreation Center.