Of blooms and building booms

While we waited to start the wildflower walk, we hikers shot the breeze as we soaked up the evening sun in Bigfork. Watching the activity on an adjacent property, one of us said, “That’s one busy family.” We wondered if it was hard to live near a trailhead.

Another of the hikers, Margaret Notley of the Flathead Land Trust, said, “On the other hand, this could have been a subdivision.”

As a board member of the group that owns the 238-acre Harrell Forest, now under conservation easement, Notley knows this place will exist forever as open space.