Montana
Kalispell FFA excels at competitions
Kalispell FFA had a standout aggressive season this fall with scholar Ethan Bay inserting second within the nation in Farm and Agribusiness Administration.
Farm and Agribusiness Administration is certainly one of a number of Profession Improvement Occasions college students might compete in on the Nationwide FFA Conference & Expo in Indianapolis. Greater than 65,000 college students attended the nationwide convention, which additionally featured totally different instructional periods. As much as 50 groups, one from every state, could qualify to compete in every occasion. Groups and people could earn gold, silver or bronze awards.
The Farm and Agribusiness Administration workforce as a complete positioned fifth. Along with Bay, workforce members included Colton Henriksson, Evan Heupel and Grayce Siderius. Individually, Heupel obtained a gold award and positioned 18th general. Siderius additionally obtained a gold award and Henriksson, silver.
Bay has participated in FFA for 4 years. This was his first time competing on the nationwide conference. To apply for the Farm and Agribusiness Administration occasion, which concerned a digital proctored check and an in-person check throughout the conference. Opponents got an hour and a half to 2 hours to finish checks. There may be additionally a workforce drawback. To organize, he studied apply checks and checks from earlier competitors years to see the place he would possibly place based mostly on his scores.
“Just like the 2019 mock check. With my scores I knew I had the potential to get within the prime 10,” he stated, however he didn’t know the place the numbers would fall on competitors day.
When the placements have been introduced on stage on the Lucas Oil Stadium, competitors organizers saved the joy going by first calling to the stage and saying particular person’s who made the highest 10 in no explicit order.
“It was sort of tense,” he stated. “Being within the prime 10 I might have taken anyplace, however I hoped to get within the prime 5.”
Because the rankings have been introduced as much as third place, Bay recalled pondering, “Oh my lord, I made the highest three.”
Lastly, his identify was referred to as because the second place winner and he was not disenchanted.
“It was superb,” he stated.
Bay stated he’s at all times loved the enterprise aspect of agriculture and “crunching the numbers” in any space associated to finance.
“I get pleasure from numbers, utilizing these numbers to research issues and deciphering information,” he stated.
With commencement imminent, Bay stated he plans to main in monetary engineering at Montana State College in Bozeman.
Additionally competing at nationals, the Kalispell FFA Horse Judging workforce composed of Danielle Dixon, Rylee Glimm, Jordyn Greene and Libby Reiner obtained a silver award. Individually, Dixon and Glimm obtained gold awards whereas Greene and Reiner obtained silver.
The Kalispell FFA program additionally obtained a 2 Star Nationwide Chapter award this 12 months (3 Star being the best).
Kalispell FFA additionally competed within the Northern Worldwide Livestock Exposition in Billings, which options groups and Montana Ag Days at Montana State College in Bozeman, which resulted in six groups inserting first, which is uncommon for this system, Kalispell FFA adviser Brian Bay stated.
“They did excellent this 12 months,” he stated. “We simply have terrific youngsters that work very arduous being aggressive and so they have a love for studying.”
Following are prime 10 workforce and particular person outcomes from Northern Worldwide Livestock Exposition and Montana Ag Days.
Northern Worldwide Livestock Exposition
Second place
Gross sales and Service workforce — Bryce Dorsett, Rylee Glimm, Ella Lund and Addie Shepard (eighth place individually).
Fifth place
Horse Judging workforce — Danielle Dixon, Rylee Glimm (seventh place individually), Jordyn Greene and Addisyn Jensen.
Livestock Judging workforce — Aiden Delong, Evan Heupel, Dillon Jewett and Beth Younger.
Montana Ag Days
First place
Agronomy workforce — Ethan Bay (first place individually), Aaron Connors, Evan Heupel (fifth place individually) and Addie Shepard (tenth place individually)
Forestry workforce — Ethan Bay (2nd place individually), Dillon Jewett (fourth place individually), Cazz Rankosky (seventh place individually) and Cameron Seymour (third place individually).
Horse Judging workforce — Sophie Banzet, Danielle Dixon (seventh place individually), Jordyn Greene (sixth place individually) and Addisyn Jensen.
Junior Horse Judging workforce — Emma Boline, Gabrielle Evert, Charli Hill (fourth place individually) and Rachel Mikelson (fifth place individually).
Gross sales and Service groups — Workforce 1 consists of Aaron Connors, Rylee Glimm (eighth place individually), Ella Lund and Addie Shepard. Workforce 2 consists of Sophie Banzet (first place individually) and Kenzie Brandt (second place individually)
Livestock Judging — Evan Heupel (second place individually), Dillon Jewett (sixth place individually), Ella Lund (eighth place individually) and Tracen McIntyre.
Third place
Meat Science workforce — Ethan Bay (fifth place individually), Evan Heupel (fourth place individually), Acelyn Hunt and Mabel Peterson.
Fourth place
Veterinary Science workforce — Ethan Bay (third place individually), Shelby Bergman,
Jordyn Greene (fifth place individually) and Josiah Groves.
Sixth place
Ag Mechanics workforce — Mason Dall, Dillon Jewett, Tracen McIntyre and Cameron Seymour.
Ninth place
Junior Livestock workforce — Manny Barone, Samara Ritter, Laila Sargent (fourth place individually) and Jayla Smart.
Reporter Hilary Matheson could also be reached at 758-4431 or hmatheson@dailyinterlake.com.
BILLINGS — The third try was the charm for Hayley Burns.
The Bozeman graduate and Northern Arizona runner finally broke through in the Montana Mile, picking up her first career victory Friday to kick off the 2024 Big Sky State Games.
“It feels really good,” Burns said. “I think my first year was last and was pretty tough. The next year I came back and was like, I want to try and win, but it was pretty tough in the middle of summer training. I did what I could and that’s the same mindset this year. Just see where I’m at. Cross (country season) is what matters, but I wanted to do my best and see what I could do.”
Burns said she hasn’t necessarily been training for races as short as the Montana Mile, as she’s running upwards of 70 miles per week with a strong emphasis on her cross country season.
She had some external motivation alongside her, though, as teammate and Helena alum Odessa Zentz kept pace with Burns nearly step for step.
“I think we’re mainly keeping each other loose, enjoying each other’s company and not getting so nervous for the race,” Burns said. “It’s nice having someone to warm up with instead of being alone. You both know the drill. You are both doing it. It’s support even though we’re both doing our own thing.”
Burns gives some credit for her performance to the training she does down in Flagstaff, Arizona, which sits nearly 7,000 feet above sea level and is a hotbed for high-level runners.
“There’s definitely benefits. It’s not something you feel, it’s something you see in time,” she said. “They say it’s similar to blood doping, but you don’t know unless you see a faster time. It feels the same. It hurts either way.”
Burns now hopes to carry some of this momentum forward into Northern Arizona’s cross country season, which begins in August.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) – New York Forest Rangers have been deployed to help fight fires out west.
A team of 20 Department of Environmental Conservation fire responders was sent to assist with containing wildfires raging in Montana.
One member of the Forest Rangers was also sent to a fire suppression crew in Oregon.
New York often sends teams to other states to fight fires. With 75 active wildfires burning more than 64,000 acres, the team of 20 aims to prevent any new fires from starting.
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A combination of fresh fire starts, and smoke pouring into the Northern Rockies from other states, is pushing air quality to some of the worst levels we’ve seen so far this summer.
While a change in the weather later this week, expected as high pressure shifts east, could bring winds to help clear skies, it’s also increasing the potential for “fire weather”, and problematic winds.
Conditions deteriorated to the point Monday, that the Montana Department of Environmental Quality issued an air quality alert for much of the state.
Missoula County Orders Evacuations for New Fire Start
New, smaller fires join the list of blazes in Montana
Air quality was already marginal over the weekend, but dropped in the Missoula area Monday morning with the outbreak of the new Butler Creek Fire.
Although largely a fast-moving fire because it involved grasslands, the new blaze forced evacuations, and had torched over 200 acres by last morning. That created more smoke which dropped air quality at most Missoula stations to “unhealthy for sensitive groups”, with a few registering “unhealthy” air for all residences.
Bad air statewide
By Monday afternoon, air quality had not improved. DEQ stations in Missoula, Frenchtown, and Hamilton were showing air “unhealthy for sensitive groups.” Other locations in Kalispell, and Northwest Montana had haze, but air quality remained “moderate.”
East of the Divide, Cutback, Chateau, and Helena had warnings of air being “unhealthy for sensitive groups.” The worst air in the state is in the Great Falls area, and a few locations in the Helena Valley, where readings had hit “unhealthy”. That’s where the warnings apply to all people to limit their time outdoors and avoid exertion.
READ MORE; Fire Smoke Keeps Missoula on “Most Polluted Cities” List
Regional fire smoke not helping
EPA maps are showing smoke plumes coming into Montana from not only the fires burning in British Columbia, the Cascades, Eastern Washington, and Oregon but also from Alberta.
Estimated Costs to Fight Montana’s Biggest Wildfires Summer 2024
The data below comes from mtfireinfo.org and the Lolo National Forest Facebook page and will be updated regularly. The following information was posted as of the morning of 7/17/2024.
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