Yesterdays: Big brook trout taken from Upper Two Medicine Lake
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A June 3-4 snowstorm in 1966 along Highway 2 in Martin City dumped several inches of snow in the Canyon and West Glacier. Here is Byrd's Food Mart along Highway 2 in Martin City. (Mel Ruder photo)
70 years ago
June 15, 1956
An Alberta Travel Center opened it St. Mary. It was an RV with “Alberta Travel Center” painted across it. Still, quite a few dignitaries came out for the grand opening, including Gov. Hugo Aronson.
60 years ago
June 17, 1966
Columbia Falls was growing and needed more post office boxes. The Post Office was considering adding as many as 300 more post office boxes in the coming years. With few sidewalks, delivering mail door to door in Columbia Falls wasn’t safe.
50 years ago
June 17, 1976
The Rainbow Family, a group of hippies, had appeared to find a home up Jones Creek outside of Chouteau east of the Divide. They expected about 250 people, maybe 600 at the most at their annual gathering, they claimed. They were already told they couldn’t gather at Glacier Park’s Belly River.
40 years ago
June 18, 1986
Bob Muraoka, a construction worker from Whitefish, landed a brook trout that was just shy of 8 pounds from Upper Two Medicine Lake in Glacier National Park. The state record was a 9.1 pound brook trout from the lower lake.
30 years ago
June 13, 1996
Ken Larson said his first trip to Glacier would likely be his last. The 70-year-old from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was bit by a sow grizzly after going down the wrong trail to Avalanche Lake (he was hiking the trail that runs back to Lake McDonald Lodge). Larson was recovering from his bites and scratches at the hospital. He had more than 20 bites across his body, but was alive and recovering.
20 years ago
June 15, 2006
Glacier National Park was going to use barrel traps only to catch grizzlies for research purposes after one that was caught in a snare died, but not until after it was tranquilized and fitted with a collar.
10 years ago
June 15, 2016
Glacier Park rangers shot a black bear that got food out of someone’s trunk. The park has far less tolerance for black bears that get into trouble as they are not an endangered species.