BOZEMAN – Montana’s general deer and elk hunting season is now in its third week, and hunters continue to see varied success in southwestern Montana.
Wildlife biologists with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks operated game check stations on Nov. 5 and 6 in three locations: Divide, Alder and Cameron. In total, they met with 846 hunters.
Biologists use check stations to collect data on hunter participation and success, as well as the species, sex and age class of the animals harvested. This supplements data collected through hunter harvest phone surveys each year.
FWP staff at the Divide check station met with 233 hunters, 5.6 percent of whom had harvested an animal. This is below last year’s third-weekend success rate of 6.9 percent and the long-term average of 7.1 percent. Hunters reported extremely windy conditions and snowfall.
The Alder check station saw 239 hunters, 11.7 percent of whom were successful. Last year’s success rate for the third weekend was 16.7 percent, and the long-term average is 14 percent. Hunters consistently reported high wind and poor visibility in this area.
The Cameron check station saw 374 hunters over the weekend, which is within average. Hunter success, however, was 15.5 percent, which is nearly double the long-term average success rate of 7.9 percent for the third weekend. Hunters here harvested 49 elk, which is the second-highest number recorded in recent years. The most elk harvested over the third weekend in recent years was in 2015 with 94 elk.
Between the three check stations, biologists checked eight white-tailed deer, 28 mule deer and 62 elk, among other species.
These figures do not account for different hunting season regulations over the years, which have varied from liberal to restrictive for elk and mule deer, depending on population status.
Couples must work a lot and prepare for their wedding months before the actual date of the wedding. Many things have to be completed before time. Many couples have a mood board set and a theme they have already decided on, but the question that arises at the end of all of this is how they will execute their plans.
You can have the date set and the venue booked, but if you still need to start preparing for the wedding invites you will send out, you better start now. Wedding invitation cards have a lot of detail and need a personalized touch, so whoever receives the card can feel happy that they will see you swirling in bliss on your wedding day.
How to look for wedding invitations
There are several ways in which you can design your wedding cards in the most unique way possible. Having a creative mindset and a theme in your mind will help you navigate the whole process of getting a spectacular wedding card. In Bozeman, Montana, you can look for wedding cards in the following ways:
● Look for a professional: If you look in the proper way and direction, you will find many professional people willing to help you prepare beautiful wedding cards for yourself. These businesses provide wedding stationery and can help you design your dream wedding cards. They take the responsibility of getting the cards printed and delivered to your home.
● Some businesses that can help you with this process are Noteworthy paper & press, Little yellow house, and Rose Virginia.
● Designing yourself: If you sit in front of your computer screen and start designing wedding cards for yourself, you will be done in a few hours. People who are sensitive that their creative spirit will die down when someone else takes over can use this option. This process requires using templates already available on the internet and designing them according to your liking.
● After the cards have been printed, you can run down to your nearest print shop, choose the perfect paper, get a few samples and get the cards printed.
● Applications and websites have made life more accessible, and with the help of the internet, everything can be performed by sitting inside the comfort of your home. Whether it is designing a
save the date for a wedding or a wedding invitation card, everything can be done on these applications. Make sure that after you send out your save-the-date cards, you start preparing for the wedding invitations you will send to your guests.
People living in areas with fewer facilities can search the internet and find solutions to their problems. Wedding invitation cards are available in every corner of the world. All you need to do is find the best option by following these tips and making the most of them.
I sort of knew what to expect when I showed up at MSU’s printmaking studio last week for Letterpress Print Night. I knew that I would be setting (and, let’s be honest, very likely spilling or otherwise messing up) type. I knew that at some point ink would have to become involved. And I knew that if all went well I’d walk away two hours later with a handmade print of some kind.
Beyond that, I did not know the level of creative energy that would be asked of me, the way that a week later my brain would still be storming with lines fitted to the theme of Synthetic Chaos. I did not know the importance of checking my type case to make sure that I drew an s from the s compartment and not one of the st ligatures mixed in. I did not know that I would be quizzed on the history of the English alphabet and spend much of the rest of the day chagrined at my failure on that quiz. I did not know that the print I would leave with would be what is called a specimen page. Did I even know what a specimen page is? I did not. But quoting from the handout I got at the workshop I can tell you that it is “a way to showcase a typeface and all of its character for both artistic and informational purposes.” In the case of our workshop, the specimen page we made featured six fonts and mysterious text of our own creation that mentioned lasers, refrigerators, Surrealism, and improvisation and for some reason was written partly in Latin.
One shows up to a class like this expecting to learn both what they are expecting to learn and what they don’t know to expect. The real question is why they show up in the first place, why in the age of InDesign there’d be any reason to. The conversation here could begin and end with the word fun. If you’re like me and you think this sort of thing is cool, you don’t need to be convinced; and if you don’t, you’re probably not going to be.
But I asked Ashely Fuchs anyway. She’s the assistant professor in graphic design at Montana State University’s School of Art which is offering these public workshops in letterpress printing.
“In a world where InDesign exists, people are starving to know more and to understand, through personal experience, concepts about design terminology and origin,” she told me. “Letterpress does just this. Most of the terminology used in InDesign like leading (space between lines of text) and even document units and increments like pica comes from the historic craft of letterpress design.”
Fuchs became interested in letterpress while studying with Ellen Knudson in graduate school at the University of Florida. “I had no idea what she was doing,” Fuchs said, “but I knew I wanted to do it that well one day.”
It was only after being hired at MSU that Fuchs realized the letterpress opportunities available to her and her students. MSU has the largest collection of metal type in all of Montana—over 400 cases.
Now with the public workshops, Fuchs wants to share the magic of letterpress more broadly. “I believe university relationships with the communities around them need to be more symbiotic and inclusive, and these workshops are a way for me to foster new connections and stronger shared experiences across the community.”
“You know when you see someone else’s pure wonder and joy and find yourself also smiling in that shared experience,” Fuchs said to me. “I’m lucky enough to experience this every time someone pulls a print for the first time, and that feeling is worth finding over and over again.”
I witnessed this wonderous response myself as I watched the members of my group admiring their specimen sheets as they came off the press. I felt it myself when it was my turn to print. It seems so simple, printing ink on paper—almost archaic—but there is something profound about it. It’s the tangible elegance of the paper along with the firsthand knowledge of some of the labor that went into it. How often do we hold in our hands' the things we’ve made? I felt like my son after a day of kindergarten as I rushed home to show him what I had spent my afternoon making.
The specimen sheets that are being produced in these workshops will be collected in a specimen book that will feature one line of every typeface in the studio. “This book,” Fuchs said, “fingers crossed, will be completed sometime in spring and will help students in making decisions on typefaces for projects and also will be available to the public. The pride and community print endeavors that went into collaborating on and printing the book I believe will be a big draw for a variety of people to want to purchase the book. And, yes, the book will be letterpress printed.”
There are two workshops remaining: November 16 at 5:00; and November 19 at noon—both meeting in the printmaking studio in Haynes Hall on the MSU campus. For more information and to register, visit https://www.gdgmsu.com/. The workshop costs $10 or is free to MSU students, faculty, and staff.
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