The Climate Conversation: Focus on the climate, not the cold
I was sitting next to the woodstove last week as the temperature plunged and the sideways snow squalled outside my window. I couldn’t help but remember 1978 when I took a job as a timber feller for Champion International. I was in my mid-20s and relatively new to Montana. And I was up for adventure, not to mention a paycheck.
It was not my most stellar move.
Each morning hours before dawn, I’d ride to Missoula with two other Bitterrooters, Steve and Delbert, to the company’s shop on Russell Street in Missoula where 40 loggers would yawn at each other until Smokey, our supervisor, gave assignments. We’d climb into company crew-cabs, and our driver, a guy named Rocky who wore a coon-skin cap, would battle ground-blizzards on I-90 and race other drivers to the job site in McGinty Gulch near Superior.
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