Contents REAL ESTATE LISTINGS Keller Williams Koefod Agency Property West Northern Land & Realty Flynn Realty Ruff Real Estate LLC Havre Hi-Line Realty Havre Realty FEATURES Doctoring Mankind Carley Robertson The Bird in the Bush Kitchen Cache China to Havre Fishing the Ice
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residential Listings & land for sale
803 11th ST ~ $118,000
Very nice home with updates throughout! 3 baths, hardwood floors, updated kitchen with dining area, main floor laundry. Full basement with family room and bathroom, office/storage room, and furnace room. New metal storage shed in back yard. Corner lot with extra off street parking.
Call Mike Winchell at 406-390-7679 or 265-6766 to view.
409 1st Street ~ Hingham, MT ~ $135,000 Exclusively listed with Koefod Agency‌.Immaculate home for sale with updates throughout! Corner lot with oversized double garage, underground sprinklers, vinyl fencing and lovely gardens. 2+1 bedrooms and 2 baths all updated. Kitchen is light and bright with newer cabinets, countertops, appliances and bay window over sink. Finished basement with lots of storage. Excellent condition!
8 Cypress Drive ~ $225,000
Wonderfully located 4 bedroom, 2 bath home with fenced yard, double garage, and many updates throughout. This home is just a few short blocks from a walking trail, schools, and parks.
Call Mike Winchell at 406-390-7679 or 265-6766 to view.
629 1st Ave ~ $65,000
Very clean move in ready starter home. Two bedroom, 1 bath with small kitchen, and unfinished basement. Tons of equity potential. Update and flip for a profit, live in it with a more affordable mortgage, or rent it out for steady cash flow.
Call Mike Winchell at 406-390-7679 or 265-6766 to view.
320 acres North East of Havre $208,000.00 275 tillable with 237 currently enlisted in CRP. Grass with intermittent stream comprises 45 acres.
Call Mike Winchell at 406-390-7679 or 265-6766 to view.
2780 Acre Farm/Ranch North of Havre. ~ $1,850,000.00
5 lots within city limits $75,000.00 Very motivated seller. Call Mike Winchell at 406-390-7679 or 265-6766 to view.
1441 acres of grass with fences and water in place. 1339 acres of cultivated ground currently used in hay production and CRP. Pastures are cross fenced with centrally located water fed by underground pipe via well. Current CRP contracts expire 2017 2019 and 2022.
Call Mike Winchell at 406-390-7679 or 265-6766 to view.
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1110 Bullhook Dr. SE ~ $639,000 FREE GAS appraised price. 6 bed/5 bath home, open floor plan, double sided fireplace, large kitchen and dining room and great room. Master suite with attached hot tub room, game room/loft, full basement, 48X32 attached heated garage, 46X66 steel storage building w/loft. Beautifully landscaped home w/irrigation well. Included is a private gas well! Home warranty included. Realtor owned.
1988 2nd St. W ~ $275,000 Great commercial building West of town. Beautifully remodeled office space with attached 40' x 50' heated shop, break room with custom built cabinets and additional storage space upstairs. Very well maintained!
616 7th Ave ~ $200,000
2 houses, with a 3 plex in the large house and a small 1 bedroom house that stands alone. You could also convert this back into a single family home, with a guest house.
618 8TH AVE. ~ $185,000
1228 Washington Ave. ~ $239,000
Great family home! 4 bed, 3 bath. 2 car attached garage. New flooring. Mature irrigated landscaped yard. Garden area. Storage sheds. Walkout basement. Awesome views. Quiet neighborhood. Realtor owned.
This wonderful family home includes 3 bedrooms on the main, 2 down with egress windows and 2 baths. New kitchen and appliances installed in 2015. Detached double garage and fenced back yard. Beautiful hardwood floors. This home is a must see! Call for your personal showing now!
1034 5TH AVE ~ $139,500 Clean and move in ready home! Fresh paint and some new flooring throughout. This home offers 2 bedrooms, 1 bath up and 2 bedrooms, 1 bath down. Also includes a kitchen in the basement. 1602 5th AVE ~ $141,000 2 bedrooms up, 2 non-conforming bedrooms down, 2 bath.
510 6th St ~ $89,000 Great location and size for a lot of different options, i.e. office, dog groomer, massage or beauty shop.
506 2nd Ave SE ~ Harlem, MT ~ $87,900 Family home 1 block from School. Within LAST FIVE YEARS New gas range, new refrigerator, new ac, new reverse osmosis, partial new roofing and complete outside paint. Oversized detached garage with extra parking. Large extra lot with garden space. W & D negotiable.
615 6th Ave ~ $165,000 This great home has been made even better with the addition of a kitchen in the basement! Rent it out or use it. New roof on house and garage. Cute old style charm on main floor with a modern updated basement, call it the best of both worlds or just call it yours before someone else does.
422 19th St. ~ $129,000 Cute 2 bedroom, 2 bath home.
820 2nd St ~ $69,000 Seller is motivated to sell! This 3 bedroom, 1 bath home would make a great starter home or investment property. Includes a single garage. Bring in an offer!
LAND ~ Washington Ave. ~ $75,000 FIRST time on the market a Large (2.41 acres) rectangular lot at south end of Washington. Must hook into city sewer, but choice of well or city water. Large building area, plus room for lots of animals too. 1005 1ST ST N ~ $36,000 2 trailers located on property. Buyer will need to negotiate for those separately or owner will have them removed from property. One is currently occupied and buyer could occupy or rent it out.
919 3RD ST ~ $40,000 MOTIVATED SELLER! Affordable starter home or investment property with 2 bedrooms, 1 bath. Priced to sell!
LAND ~ 18th St & 12th Ave Ave ~ $40,000 Last Lot in Brandon Additions. Corner lot on south west corner of 12th Ave and 18th St. ALL utilities are inside the lot ready for new builder. Modular homes are allowed. Drive by and then call for details.
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945 82nd Ave West
Out in the country, close to town. Country living at its finest! 5-bedrooms, 3 1/2 bathrooms on 2.6 acres. Extra garage/shop for all your storage needs!
819 1st Avenue
Budget Inn ~ Havre Multi-unit motel complex with daily, weekly & monthly rentals plus several commercial rental spaces, owner/manager accomodations & laundry facility. Located on busy US Highway 2, a great business opportunity that offers low vacancy history.
1620 Pine Dr
Northern Tire, LLC Building Prime commercial building formerly used for Eddy’s Bakery, approximately 8,570 sq ft of multi-purpose retail/commercial space, multiple overhead access doors for numerous uses, excellent on-site and off-street parking, lease available.
812 12th Street
Darling House in great location! 3 bedroom, 1 full bath Big dining room, very large lot. Carport. A Must See!! Priced at $135,000
This 2 bed, 2 bath single family home is a great investment. Large living room, Finished basement, Fenced yard, 2 Car Garage and more!. Call to view!
Northern Land 25 Saddle Butte
Unique floor plan on this spacious 4 bedroom, 3 bath house, updated beautiful kitchen. 2 master bedrooms, great view, large double attached garage.
430 11th Ave. Super cute home is fully updated, inside & out! New windows, siding, new roof in August 2015! New furnace & plumbing, updated kitchen and bathrooms! Great porch for enjoying early mornings or quiet evenings!
428 11th Ave. 1 bdrm, 1 bath home. $38,000
Nice 4 bedroom, 3 full bath home. Lots of space. Newer roof, updated furnaces and AC units, newer hot water heaters, updated appliances. Newer garage doors. Well maintained home in great location. Priced at $248,500
LAND LISTINGS We have qualified buyers for farm and ranch properties.
1011 Cleveland Ave
Nice home, 2 bedrooms + 2 bonus rooms, quiet street, large lot
COMMERCIAL LISTINGS Lot for Sale on Hwy 2 West
932 6th Ave.
606 1st West ~ Arctic Circle For Sale or Rent. Seat in dining or drive through. Great restaurant prospects or conversion to other use.
3052 US Hwy 2 East Updated windows and siding, 2 bedroom, basement and nice lot priced at $69,000
This is move in ready, adorable house with lots of character. 3 Bedroom 1 1/2 bath. Nice location, very clean home. Priced at $120,000
Commercial Building Large renovated metal building, formerly known as the Plainsman Sports Bar and Steakhouse, approximately 4,392 sq ft under roof, 3.47 acres on busy US Highway 2, great parking on large lot, updated private sanitation system, private water supply, potential to convert to warehouse,residential housing, apartment complex, etc. Commercial Lots Commercial lots located in Havre with US HW 2 and 15th Avenue access. Possible owner financing!
819 First Ave. Very solid, Nice home. Large living room, Finished basement, Fenced yard, double car garage, great location!
1329 3rd St. 2 bedrooms, main floor utility, central A/C, new roof, detached 2-car garage, and fenced yard.
705 5th Ave. 10-plex apartment building, centrally located with a strong rental history.
Local Lawn Care & Snow Removal Business With growing customer base. Turnkey with tools, equipment and vehicles. Call Jim for details!
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CARLEy RoBERTSoN DoESN’T REMEMBER gRoWINg UP WANTINg To BE A DoCToR, THoUgH THAT IS WHAT SHE BECAME. SHE JUST HAD A SENSE THAT SHE WANTED To SERVE HUMANITy, AND THIS SERVICE HAS TAkEN HER ARoUND THE gLoBE. SToRy By PAM BURkE PHoToS FRoM VIDEo CoURTESy oF BEN MILLER That sense of serving mankind, she said, came from a lesson in the Bible. “It was something like, if you want to be great in the kingdom of god, learn to be a servant of man,” she said. Robertson has lived in the Havre area for more than 20 years and works in the Havre area as the doctor for Sweet Home in Chinook, the physician supervisor for Big Sandy Medical Center and fill-in emergency room doctor at Northern Montana Hospital, but it’s her stints working abroad that really speak to her sense of purpose and ideals of practicing medicine.
Since 2011 she has worked with International Evangelism outreach, based in Poulsbro, Washington, providing medical treatment at the Sakila Clinic in Sakila, Tanzania. The village sits on the northern edge of Tanzania, which is on the lower eastern edge of the African continent, and Mount kilimanjaro is visible from the clinic’s third floor, she said. The clinic is part of the grassroots efforts of IEo to improve that community and others they have expanded into, Robertson said as she sketched a map of Africa on a piece of paper and pinpointed the village of Sakila in Tanzania.
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A local farmer, Eliudi Issangya, felt the calling to do more for his community, so he sold his farm and went to seminary school. In that journey, he started the nonprofit IEo about 30 years ago, essentially to provide services that the community needs, including a church and seminary and the clinic. “They’re working on helping all kinds of just regular people improve their lives — better food and farming and access to materials and living better,” Robertson said. “It’s their church. It’s their life. And it’s whatever they want help with, and if they want help with building a school then we want to help them get a school built. “These guys have started a primary school … and they’ve just in the last couple years started a secondary school through, like, eighth grade,” she said, adding that in Tanzania “you more or less have to take the national exams and if you score high enough on the national exams you get to go on in school. If you don’t, you don’t and you never do. The end. your education is over, you’re done.” While the group has been working on providing stability, food, clothing and other bare necessities for residents, they also have been working on providing medical care and recently expanded their medical facility. “About 10 years ago they started with a lady, whose name is Paulina, who had, I think, probably about six weeks of medical assistant training, and she started out in a room on their little campus where they have their (other facilities), and it’s grown to a three-room clinic,” Robertson said. “… And
just the beginning of this year they opened a real clinic, like a building with a waiting area and a pharmacy kind of area and a real Tanzanian doctor.” Even with their own staff
you may be out in a far-away village, too, and you have a dirt floor and there is no electricity and there is no running water and the outhouse is out back — and that’s what you live with. Carley Robertson, M.D. Havre
doctor, the clinic and surrounding villages still need medical volunteers. “you may be out in a far-away village, too, and you have a dirt floor and there is no electricity and there is no running water and the outhouse is out back —
and that’s what you live with,” she said. Robertson had already traveled to several places in southern Africa before hearing from some friends that they were planning this trip to Sakila in 2011. “I just thought it was kick-ass cool to go and be able to do that,” she said. But Robertson almost didn’t make that first trip because of her own medical crisis. In May 2011, Robertson reported for her ER shift at Northern Montana Hospital, though she had been fighting a headache for a few days. one of the nurses looked into her eyes and told her she needed to see a doctor immediately, she said. The doctor going off shift checked her over, determined she had a bleed in her brain and sent her to great Falls. “yeah, I was life-flighted out of my own ER,” she said. Two more maps, of the human brain this time, illustrated her injury from two different viewpoints. It was that good fate — be
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ing at the ER where she could be examined — which saved her life. If she had been home lying on the couch, she said, she would have just died in her sleep. Though she spent considerable time recovering in intensive care at Benefis, she got out in time to make the trip to Sakila in July 2011. Aside from getting to go on a “kick-ass” trip and the personal satisfaction of helping others on these trips, Robertson said she gets satisfaction from practicing ground-level medicine. Fairly early in her medical career, Robertson got frustrated by what she said is an increasing gap between medicine and health
care. Medicine, or the practice of medicine, is the hands-on treatment of patients, she said. Health care, though, is the system of public and private insurance along with the administrative and business side of medical care — all of which, she said, is negatively influencing choices made by patients, doctors and administration. But in areas of the world where basic medical care is desperately needed, the system is still about hands-on treatment. “I like this level. Not everybody likes this level,” Robertson said. “I like the level where a bar of soap is fairly technologically
advanced.” Her first trip abroad to practice medicine in another country was to provide care at clinics in remote areas of Queensland, Australia, while resident doctors were on vacation, she said. Under Australia’s system of care, when a doctor in an outback clinic takes a vacation, the government must bring in a temporary physician to provide care under a program called Queensland Rural Division Coordinating Unit. Robertson said she spent six months jumping around Queensland doing fill-in work in “little, dinky, tiny places” in Queensland. Because of remotearea living and vast open distances between developments,
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Australia and Alaska have more in common then most places, she said. “And, really Africa because of the lack of infrastructure is more like (Queensland) or Alaska,” she added. In an earlier trip to Africa, Robertson went to Angola in 2005, flying to Luanda on Angola’s coast then went inland to a village called Malanda, which is in an area called the Caprivi Strip. She said that it was a 3-4 hour flight from Luanda to Malanda, but it took 24 hours for those who had to travel the roads. “I can remember when I was in high school and a kid, and I can remember hearing about the Caprivi Strip and the Angolan wars of independence . …
Much of that fighting and that war went on in this area (around Malanda), and when I went in 2005 they had literally just two or three years earlier ceased hostilities,” she said. “So this trip was still very much, again, trying to get people really, really, really basic wound care stuff, antibiotics, adequate calories and nutrition. There was still land mines around and our intro to Angola was ‘and you don’t go for walks by yourself, you stay on the path and don’t get off,’” she said. “While we were there,” she added, “there was a group of children — I don’t know what they were playing with — but a mine blew up and killed about eight kids. So it’s very, very real.” And very much about the practice of medicine, which can take different forms in different countries. Among her other travels, Robertson went to China in 2006, getting the opportunity to see Eastern medicine firsthand. She had wanted to go there to
help provide medical assistance to people in remote China, but when that wasn’t approved she went as the physician for her traveling cohorts. “They were very gracious to us — they gave us a tour of
their little hospital in the place where we were and showed us their clinic. “Here was this little bare room that’s like western medicine,” Robertson said. “And then here’s this big room ... Harry Potter has nothing on Chinese medicine, but literally drawers and drawers and drawers of herbal things and sticks and wands and sticks and drawers and dried things hanging from the ceiling. But that was the Chinese medicine room. There was lots and lots of things there,” she said. Despite her extensive travels, Robertson said she still has a definite sense of where home is. “I tried moving once, but wherever I am, there I am. The geographical cure doesn’t work. I like Montana,” she said. “... I’m a Montana kid.”
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Hi-Line Listings
1060 County Rd 802 SE ~ $318,500 Large 4 bdrm, 3 bath modified MH on +/- 10 Acres. Open living, mostly all on one level & handicapped accessible. Large heated shop, corrals & fenced for horses. Great views!.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 265-9400
660 9th St. E Chinook ~ $269,000
Very spacious 3 bdrm, 2 bath on nearly 2.5 Acres located outside the city limits on the edge of Chinook, MT. Set up with an automatic generator system-wired to code. City water & sewer. Zoned Commercial/ Residential.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
NEW LISTING
11135 River Rd ~ $625,000
1910 Heritage Dr ~ $239,900
Prestigious & updated 5 bdrm, 3 1/2 bath home on 60 Acres! Includes pool, garden area, barn, pasture, paved country road to home & double garage. Good well & sprinkler system. Awesome views of Milk River Basin, Bears Paws & Badlands along the Milk River.
5 bedrooms, 2-3/4 bathrooms, mostly updated throughout, 1 stall garage, family room in basement, nice deck, and a hot tub.
Call/Text John F. Carlson at 390-1381
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 265-9400
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45 Beaver Creek Blvd ~ $177,500 Spacious, clean 2+1 bedroom, 2 bath home. Private fenced back yard, large parking area & double garage. South location across the street from Rotatry Park.
7310 County Rd 462 W ~ $695,000
Luxurious home & a piece of the country! Located on +/- 53 acres in parklike setting, approx 3 miles West of Havre. 4 bdrm, 4 bath home w/gourmet kitchen, formal dining & all the pluses. Includes pond w/ fountain, 3 wells, feed crop/pasture & Beaver Creek flowing through it.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 265-9400
537 Pennsylvania St Chinook, MT ~ $105,000
Lots of new Updates! Classic 2 bdrm, 1 bath home in Chinook, MT. All new appliances, main floor & basement laundry hookups, underground sprinklers & landscaped yard. Large 2 stall garage.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
1221 5th Street ~ $169,500
2 bed + 2 non conforming in basement, 1-3/4 bath, open concept living, great fenced backyard with patio, 2 stall garage, beautifully kept home.
Call/Text John F. Carlson at 390-1381
Hi-Line Listings
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 265-7845
1133 New York St Chinook, MT ~ $85,000
Nice, neat 2 bdrm, 1 bath home in Chinook, MT. New roof, new windows, new doors. Fenced backyard, storage sheds & single garage.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
1129 16th Street ~ $159,900
734 10th Street ~ $120,000
Nice 2014 16'x76' mobile home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and 2 decks. Beautiful fenced in yard. This mobile home has permanent foundation and well taken care of.
3 bedroom house with central air and 2 non conforming bedrooms in the basement, 1 1/2 bath and laundry on main floor. 3/4 bath plus family room and second kitchen in the basement plus 2 stall garage
Call/Text John F. Carlson at 390-1381
134 9th St ~ Chinook ~ $79,000
112 9th St E ~Chinook~ $99,000 Nice clean 2 bedroom, 2 bath home in Chinook, MT. New roof, new windows, new paint. Gas fireplace, AC & single car garage.
Call/Text John F. Carlson @ 390-1381
Nice 2 bedroom, 2 bath single level home in Chinook, MT. newer furnace, bonus/storage/ utility area, central air & double carport.
Call Ken Nelson @ 406-439-0595
Call Ken Nelson @406-439-0595
226 2nd St NW ~ Rudyard ~ $74,500
605 2nd Street ~ $58,900
1013 & 1015 3rd St ~ $69,900
1 bdrm, 1 bath home with loft & additional 1 room Studio Apartment. Perfect Income Property.
Building consists of main floor church, sanctuary, office, & bath. Basement has large multi-purpose room, kitchen, 2 baths, storage & furnace rooms. Attic has 2 rooms that could be used as bdrms or storage.
Call Ken Nelson @406-439-0595
Call Paul Kuka @ 406-265-7845
3 bdrm,1 bath home in Rudyard, MT. Nice open floor plan with nice updates. Large master suite with patio & new carpets throughout home. Large family room with wood stove & triple heated & insulated garage/shop.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 265-9400
Commercial Lot For Sale Located on Hwy 2 & 2nd St W 2.12 Acres~$195,000
Includes Utilities to edge of Lot. Fenced for horses or Commercial use.
Bullhook Bottoms Casino $650,000
A large Commercial property that includes a Casino & Liquor License on 1st Street/ Hwy 2 frontage in Havre, MT
Call Ken Nelson at 406-439-0595 or Larry Martinson @ 390-1509
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 265-7845
Lot For Sale
103 3rd St. W. ~ Inverness $45,000
Beautifully remodeled 3 bdrm, 1 1/2 bath home w/ good water & shop + outbldgs. Plus 6 lots.
Call Janis Flynn Pyrak @ 265-9400
410 3rd Street East Chester, MT $99,000
bedroom, 2 bath home in Chester, MT. List with 3Double attached garage, deck & large driveway/parking pad. us today! Call Derek Fraser @ 262-4603 | LIVING Havre and the Hi-Line MAGAZINE | 15
4.5 Acre Lot East of Torgerson Implement ~ $450,000 Ready to build on with utilities. JANUARY 2016
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1916 Heritage Dr. ~ $249,000 This town home has been exceptionally cared for, with 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, the gourmet kitchen is huge & this home has brand new carpet on the main, new roof shingles and new rain gutters. Contact Edward for your showing.
100 6th St. ~ $145,000 Beautiful Family home with 2 bedrooms on the main floor a newer kitchen and hard wood floors. Downstairs has a nice den, bathroom and utility room.
1.26 +/- Acres ~ $18,500 Building lot on 2nd St West & Water Tower Road
603 7th Ave ~ $365,000 This gorgeous home boasts a huge gourmet kitchen & dining room for entertaining guests or big family, with 3 bedrooms up, 4 bathrooms, 1 non-conforming bedroom down, main floor utilities, 4,000' home, 22,500' lot, extra large shop & area above shop. Contact Edward Ruff.
717 17th St ~ $155,000 Beautiful well maintained home has 3 bedrooms on the main, 3 bathrooms, a huge kitchen, pretty yard and double garage.This one won't last long contact Edward for your private showing.
420 7th St. ~ $119,000 A very moderate price on this pretty home which has been tastefully updated & well cared for. BTW this home is to get new roof shingles & some new siding. Updates inside include new paint and ceramic tile.
CREATIVE LEISURE COMMERCIAL BUILDING PRICED AT $650,000
7690 US-2 W ~ $163,000 Great country home newer kitchen & master bedroom. With 3 bedrooms total, garage, carport & outbuilding. Easy access to down town Havre on HWY 2 W approx. 4 miles. Contact Edward Ruff for your showings.
Bad Lands Car Wash 413 2nd Street ~ $149,900 Downtown car wash, building & car wash on 2 downtown city lots. This is a nice little cash cow.
619 1st St-Box Cars Casino ~ $395,000
Great return on your investment with this well established Bar and Restaurant business here in Havre, MT. This turn key operation is located on two of the busiest roads in Havre with a food contract established, gaming, all beverage liquor license and real estate included. Contact Edward Ruff for more information or a private showing.
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Though bird feeding and watching might seem to be more naturally a summer pastime, winter offers the perfect time to get started and to make bird-habitat landscaping plans for summer. STORY BY PAM BURKE PHOTOS Courtesy of PEGGY RAY Birds need three things, said Fort Peck resident Chuck Carlson, who has been an avid birder since 1967. “There are three different components of backyard bird feeding: food, water and cover — that’s like brush or a thicket or some thick (cover) where the birds can go when the hawks come,” he said. The feed requirement is simple, Carlson said. In winter he feeds primarily black oil sunflower seeds and suet, and in summer he adds thistle seeds and cuts back on the suet. “The only thing I recommend is black oil sunflower seed, maybe millet but they tend to attract hordes of sparrows,” he said. “The mixes you buy in Walmart or whatever usually contain a whole
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bunch of seeds that never do get eaten. They put them in the mix to make it cheaper. I don’t recommend it, but if that’s all you got, it works better than nothing.” “Another thing you feed is suet,” he added. “you can buy these blocks of suet in many stores, that go into a little cagelike thing for the nuthatches and finches and the little chickadees.”
ReGULATIONS Whether feeding seeds to backyard birds, grain to pheasants or raw meat scraps to magpies, feeding the birds is OK, said Marc Kloker with Region 6 Fish, Wildlife and Parks. According to FWP regulations, it is legal as long as you are not baiting the birds in to shoot them, and you haven’t made a nuisance of other wildlife, like deer or bears, who will start hanging around human habitations if they think they are going to get a free handout. The suet is high in fat, which the birds need to combat cold temperatures, he said. But the need for dietary fat sources is decreased in summer months when plenty of high-fat bugs are available to feed on. Despite the bug availability, Carlson still puts out some suet in the summer to help attract birds. He also changes suet products to one called a no-melt suet that is a little more
resistant to heat. He also adds thistle seed to his feeders for the small birds like red polls, goldfinches and a variety of siskins. Food, though, isn’t the highest priority for creating and inviting environment for birds. “one of the most important things in backyard feeding is water,” he said. Carlson said he created a heated waterer with a heat pad and a garbage can lid, but birdspecific heated waters are sold in stores. Barb Coms of Havre, an amateur bird watcher, said that on days when the temperature reaches freezing she takes a pan of boiling hot water outside to put in the bird waterer. The birds get used to her schedule and they wait for her to bring the water. Though birds might anticipate daily feeding and watering, people shouldn’t be afraid to go on vacation and let their birds fend for themselves, even in winter, Carlson said, adding that this is one of the top mostasked questions about bird feeding. “They’ll find food somewhere, and they’ll be back as soon as you get back and put food out,” he said. THe BIRDS In winter months, north-central Montana will see backyard birds such as downy and hairy woodpeckers, chickadees, white-breasted nuthatches, red-breasted nuthatches, house finches, house sparrows, Eurasian collared doves and bohemian waxwings, Carlson said.
BeYOND THe BACKYARD In 1969, when Carlson first became interested in birding, not many resources were available to the amateur birder in remote Montana. “When I got started, there was no one around here that was a birder, so I learned it all by myself. I made a lot of mistakes, but that’s what happens.” he said. “I had someone that I could ask or send pictures to so that helped quite a bit.” Research and learning resources have expanded considerably since then. Marc Kloker, Fish, Wildlife and Parks information and education manager for this region, said he is planning education classes on birdwatching and identification for the general public. The goal, he said, it to provide information to birders and support nongame interest in Montana’s wildlife. Another in-state effort comes from Montana Audobon, which conducts a Christmas Bird Count. This count is part of a continentwide effort started in 1900, says the group’s website. On one day within about a three-week period people in designated areas record the bird sightings they make in the day and provide this n continued on page 21
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said. The landscape in the area includes plenty of established shelter belts, natural shelter and water from Beaver Creek and Big Sandy Creek, and some wide-opened areas that entice a few ring-neck pheasants in as well. While Coms said she cannot identify all the birds, she does add to her repertoire regularly. When she spots a new bird she takes a photograph or a description of the bird to knowledgeable friends to get help identifying what she’s seeing. The number of bird species that stay in the area during winter months is considerably smaller than the number of birds in the area in summer. This isn’t an entirely bad thing, Carlson said. For people new to bird watching, fewer birds makes identification much easier. A person can start out getting to know a few local birds and build on that as spring and summer hit. “(Identifying birds) takes practice, and the more you really know — like a robin or a goldfinch — the more of those species that you get to know well, the more that you can figure out that it’s not one of them and start working on trying to ID it,” Carlson said. “It’s a growth process.” Coms moved to Havre from the Seattle area five years ago, and though she had bird feeders there, it’s the bird watching in this area that has truly provided a spark, she said. “This has just been different for me since we have some different birds over here — as well as the same,” she said. “We’ve moved, I think, three
times since we’ve been in Havre and all three times I’ve had different birds where I’m at,” she added. Her current home, west of ABOUT THAT RUSSIAN OLIVe TRee Though they are planted in shelter belts and yards around the country, Russian olive trees were classified in 2010 as Priority 3 weeds by the state of Montana. MTWeed.org says Priority 3 “plants may not be intentionally spread or sold other than as a contaminant in agricultural products.” The intent is to prevent or minimize the spread of these regulated plants. Because Russian olive trees are non-native and spread aggressively to the detriment of other trees, no new Russian olives can be planted. town, has provided the widest variety of backyard birds, she
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THe HABITAT For that third need in providing a bird habitat — shelter — a variety of shrubs and trees can offer protection in the summer, but it is thick bushes and bushy trees that are needed in the winter, Carlson said. A cottonwood in full leaf is a great shelter for summertime nesting, but once the leaves are gone the branches alone are too open to provide protection from predators and weather in winter months. A bird house or a nest box offers a shelter addition that can be added to a yard any time of the year. Carlson said that in winter chickadees and nuthatches will use the nest boxes for shelter, but thick-cover plants will be used by all birds. Carlson said he has planted wild roses in a hedge, dogwood, spruce trees and hawthorne. other bushes and trees work well, too, including juniper, chokecherry, clove current, hackberry, sumac and lilacs. Any of the shelter vegetation
that grows a berry, including rose hips, also provides feed for birds, as well, and a variety of hedge shrubs, both evergreen and deciduous, naturally develop thick growth. Coms said that the Russian olive trees that had been planted for shelter along one edge of her property attract flocks of cedar waxwings each
fall and spring. Russian olive trees are now considered an invasive species, so by state law they cannot be planted, but those already growing do not have to be removed. The local Extension Office, greenhouses and landscapers can help find shrub and tree varieties suitable for the area
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data to Audobon Society. Using this data, scientists can identify areas and habitats that are important to birds in the winter and track changes in migratory patterns of birds — even smaller birds like robins and cedar waxwings. Cornell University Lab of Ornithology has a program called NestWatch, online at nestwatch.org, that is a monitoring program tracking various bird reproduction data to study affects of habitat, climate and environment changes on birds. Whether participating in the program or not, people interested in birdwatching can benefit from the website’s information on building nest boxes and identifying birds. Carlson recommended getting connected with Montana’s Online Birding Group, which is a Yahoo. com group with almost 900 members that allows people to post questions and photos and share information. For a handy, at-home bird guide he also recommended National Geographic Field Guide to North American Birds along with the regional field guides published by National Geographic. He said Sibley Field Guide to Birds is also popular among birders.
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climate and soil and advise on a planting schedule and schematic. Because shrubs and trees take time to establish and gain growth, starting the planning stage early gives a head start on getting planted in the spring to help take advantage of the full growth year. It takes some plants a few years to mature into good shelter, Carlson said, and sometimes the shrubs and trees can make the home owner’s life a little more difficult. “It gets where it’s a little hard to mow the lawn,” he said, “but we get a lot of birds and people are a little amazed sometimes when they see how many birds we have.” Resources Links for Building a Bird Habitat • National Wildlife Federation http://www.nwf.org/certifiedwildlifehabitat • Eartheasy http://eartheasy.com/play_bkyd_wildhab.htm • U.S.D.A. Natural Resources Conservation Service: http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/newsroom/ features/?cid=nrcs143_023553 Bird Identification Publications • National Geographic guides to birds in North America, the eastern region and the western region. • Sibley Field Guide to Birds • Montana Bird Distribution, from Montana Audobon in Helena Bird Identification Websites • Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Montana Animal Field Guide http://www.fieldguide.mt.gov • American Birding Association, Montana section http://www.birding.aba.org/mobiledigest/MT • Montana Audobon http://www.mtaudubon.org/ • Cornell University NestWatch Program http://www.nestwatch.org
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CHINA to Havre STORY BY PAM BURKE PHOTOS BY MATTHEW STRISSEL
Feb. 8 marks the start of the Chinese New Year and a hot and sour soup might just be the perfect way to help welcome the Year of the Monkey and chase away any winter chills.
Joyce Shao and her husband, Ricky Xie, have been in the restaurant business for 15 years. They opened their restaurant, China Garden, in Havre’s Holiday Village Mall about six years ago after buying the former Gallery Restaurant. Shao said she and Xie had just gone to work for her uncle, running his restaurant in Lewistown, when they heard about the open restaurant space in the mall. Buying it gave them the opportunity to start their own business. A few years later, they also bought Canton’s on 1st Street when the former owners decided to retire, she said. Shao and Xie emigrated to the U.S. separately in the late 1990s and met in Alliance, Nebraska, Shao said. Xie grew up on Hainan n continued on page 26
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HOT AND SOUR SOUP
Kan Sriplod, chef, China Garden INGReDIeNTS 2 quarts chicken broth 3/4 cup mushrooms, chopped 3/4 cup carrots, chopped 3/4 cup bamboo shoots 3/4 cup tofu, cubed (can substitute cooked, cubed chicken or pork) 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon chili paste 1 teaspoon black pepper 1/4 cup vinegar (or more) 2 tablespoons sugar 1-1/2 tablespoons cornstarch (or more) 4 eggs, beaten
Kan Sriplod
1 to 2 teaspoons sesame seed oil
INSTRUCTIONS Bring chicken broth to boil, add mushrooms, carrots, bamboo shoots, tofu, salt, chili paste, black pepper, vinegar and sugar to broth and bring back to a light boil. Mix cornstarch with enough water to make a runny paste and stir this into soup. If you want your soup base to be a thicker, add more prepated cornstarch, in small amounts, until soup reaches the desired thickness. Break eggs into a small bowl and beat them just until they are fully mixed. Slowly pour eggs in a thin stream in a circular motion, into the boiling soup. Turn off heat. Add sesame seed oil for a touch of flavor, add more vinegar if you feel it needs more sour.
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Island off the southernmost tip of mainland China. Shao spent her early years in southern guangzho, the capital and largest city of guangdong Province, commonly known as Canton Province. While their years in two different regions of China give them a taste for some of the regional differences in cooking styles, China is a vast country with wide cultural diversity, and the regional cooking styles vary just as greatly, she said. “I’m from Canton, so we eat bland food,” she said. “... We only eat stir fry, steamed, not so much of the deep-fat fried stuff.” “When you’re in Canton, the food is totally different than in Beijing or in Shanghai or Hunan (Province). Hunan is a little
YeAR OF THe MONKeY While the United States and much of the world mark the days, months and years with the gregorian calendar which is based on the solar year, China uses what is called a lunisolar calendar – also the basis for the Jewish Calendar, the National Calendar of India and others, as well. The lunisolar calendar bases the months on lunar, or moon, cycles, but the year is set to the solar cycle, says Britannica.com. Because the moon’s 12-month cycle doesn’t match the sun’s cycle in length, some years are shorter than 365 days and others, called leap years,
Joyce Shao bit more spicy,” she added. “It’s different.” Though their restaurant’s cuisine is inspired from foods found in China, it’s definitely Chinese-American adapted to ingredients available here and to American tastes, she said. This is true of almost all Chinese restaurants in the U.S., whether
are longer, with a 13th month of whatever length is needed to adjust the lunar year to equal the solar year in length. Another characteristic of the lunisolar calendar is that the first day of the new year has to be calculated each year, but it always comes between Jan. 21 and Feb. 20 in the gregorian Calendar, said Chinahighlights. com. The New year celebration is the biggest holiday of the year in China, said Joyce Shao, who spent her early years in China before emigrating with her family to the U.S. Traditionally the year started with a 15-day celebration which included
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they’re located in rural Montana or in downtown San Fransisco, she added. Many items on the menu at China garden were adapted from recipes they learned working in their family members’ restaurants, Shao said. The Hot and Sour Soup recipe is courtesy of their head chef kan Sriplod. The pepper gives the soup much of its hotness and the sour, of course, comes from the vinegar, Sriplod said. It can be adapted to the cook’s taste by choosing different ingredients, like different types of mushrooms and substituting chicken or pork for the tofu, or by making it hardier by adding more mushroom, carrots and tofu. Sriplod recommended starting out with only a quarter-cup of vinegar and adding more if needed.
ceremonies, offerings and foods specific to each day, but in modern times the holiday is more a time to relax and spend time with family, she said. Many modern Chinese New year celebrations revolve around the parades with colorful floats and dancers, music and fireworks. Chinese astrology is a complex system, but the overriding, and most well-known, aspect of Chinese zodiac is the naming of each year after a specific animal. Based on the 12-year cycle, New year 2016 will wrap up the year of the goat and start the year of the Monkey.
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By PAM BURkE PHoToS CoURTESy HAVRE CHAMBER oF CoMMERCE For the outdoors-minded people undeterred by a little winter weather and thick layers of ice, the Fresno Ice Fishing Derby offers a weekend on the ice with a chance to win some prize money. The annual ice derby will be Saturday, Jan. 30, and Sunday, Jan. 31, giving ice fishers the opportunity to fish two days or just one. The derby starts at Fresno Reservoir at 7 a.m. both days, ending at 3 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Hosted by the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Ag Committee, the derby is designed to be a fun event for participants and a fundraiser for the commitee’s Montana State University-Northern scholarship fund. Each year, the Ag Committee awards two scholarships to Northern students pursuing a degree in agriculture or an ag-related
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program. Depending on how much the committee raises in the year, the scholarships are between $1,000 and $1,500 each. The ice derby is the committee’s biggest fundraiser. Fish species that qualify in the three categories for the tournament are northern pike, walleye, and perch/crappie combined. Cash prizes will be paid out daily for the longest three fish in each category. The exact amount of the payout will be dependent on the number of entries. Entry fees are $25 per day or $50 for both days.
Pre-registration is preferred but not required. Forms can be picked up at the Chamber office at 130 5th Avenue or downloaded off the Chamber website at www.havrechamber.com. For more information, call the Chamber at 406-265-4383. Fresno is a public waterway, so participants will have to adhere to all Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks regulations, including possession limits. youth 13 years old and
younger must be accompanied by an adult participant with a legal fishing license. Spear fishing will be allowed, and participants will be able to set shelters on the ice prior to the derby but at their own risk. Check-in before the tournament and measurement of fish at the end of the day will be held at The Walleye Tavern on U.S. Highway 2 about 12 miles west of Havre at the turn-off to Fresno Reservoir. The Walleye Tavern will also be offering a breakfast for about $6 from 6 a.m. to noon both days.
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