LEFT: A male pine marten is released near Kings Hill in the Little Belt Mountains on Feb. 1 as part of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks pine marten reintroduction plan. The agency will release 30 animals in the first round of the plan.
RIGHT: Rob Francisco, a wildlife technician with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, removes a recently sedated pine marten from its holding crate to perform a health check on the animal near Neihart, Mont. The marten was later released.
Rion Sanders/The Great Falls Tribune via AP
Valentineâs Day has come and gone but romance scams continue all year long, according to various email warnings I received from the likes of the Better Business Bureau, the Federal Trade Commission and some guy named Rick.
I must be on a list of âmost likely to fall prey to romance scams,â but I learned my lesson years ago when a girl in third grade sent a note reading, âDo you like me? Check yes or no.â I checked yes, she took my strawberry ice cream cup at lunch, and then would not talk to me at recess.
I donât think it seriously affected my future relationships, but it did ruin strawberry ice cream for me.
If there is one thing I canât stand, it is government overregulation of cryptozoological creatures.
There are actually several things I canât stand â someone putting an empty steak sauce bottle back in the refrigerator, irresponsible dog owners and people with Facebook medical degrees, just to name a few.
This week, though, it is government overregulation of cryptozoological creatures, specifically Bigfoot.
Regular readers of this column know I am a citizen of the city that proudly hosts the annual Western North Carolina (WNC) Bigfoot Festival during non-plague years.
Those same readers may even recall I performed as Bigfootâs stand-in a few times, climbing into the suit for both promotional and educational efforts, such as the non-award-winning documentary âBigfoot Tells Fifth-Graders about Trees.â
Rescuers in India are working to save more than three dozen power plant workers trapped in a tunnel after part of a Himalayan glacier broke off and sent a wall of water and debris rushing down a mountain.