Category: Retreat Locales

Pulling Back the Curtain on Scotchman Peaks Wilderness o o o Video: All-American EFX Sports: Billings’ Best Kept Secret. Here is a link to their website. While their sales headquarters is in California, their factory (and most of their employees) are in Billings, Montana. o o o The Columbia River Treaty could be the death of Idaho – J.H. o o o Texas billionaire brothers Wilks reach out to Idaho state officials about land – DSV o o o Wyoming: City to hold informational meeting on tree-killing beetle

Gary Hunt’s Outpost of Freedom site has been served a “Cease and Desist” letter and the government has filed an affidavit and request for a court order to shut down his blog. Read this site while you can, before the American Stasi ignores the First Amendment in an effort to hide its illegal moves. – D.S. o o o ‘Go get the gun’ stops would-be thief in his tracks o o o Record snowfall in Boise keeps Treasure Valley schools closed, side roads daunting o o o The American Redoubt movement simply echoes what people have been asking for, for …

Hi,I purchased 150 acres in my chosen location and intended to have a cabin built on it with a well and septic system. I found a contractor who said he would complete a well, septic, and “dried in cabin” for me. He was making good progress and completed about 60% of the work and then just stopped working on it. He has been at it for over four years, and the wood framing is getting very old. Anyway, this was the first time I’ve ever hired a contractor to build something for me, and like a moron I gave him …

Western US sagebrush defense plan will endure, official says o o o Poisonous ornamental plant blamed for elk deaths near Boise o o o Western Wyoming pronghorn migration is late but successful o o o Montana: Republicans look to cut $120M in state agency spending o o o Herd of 41 elk die in Eastern Oregon after falling through ice

RTG Parts (in Sheridan, Wyoming) has expanded their product line. They are best known for their amazing variety of parts and accessories for Heckler and Koch (HK) rifles. But they also stock AK, Uzi, Walther P.38, Tokarev, and other parts as well as magazines for quite a wide assortment of rifles and pistols. They sell via mail order, nationwide. I’ve being doing business with them for many years, and I highly recommend them. – JWR o o o Timelapse shows growth in Inland Northwest since 1980s o o o Montana: Woman kills self in suspected DUI stop in Columbus o …

Montana water district files suit over Yellowstone arsenic o o o Wyoming: Refuge quickly fills with elk after hunting ends o o o Snowplow drivers get stuck in 65 below zero temperatures – S.M. o o o Even the American Redoubt has its share of idiots: Neo-Nazis urge armed march to harass Montana Jews – K.P. o o o Ice climbers test nerves on Palouse Falls

“That’s pretty rare”: Helena gets two record-breaking days of snowfall this week o o o The liberal Cascadia Movement’s planned secession territory map flies in the face of logic. The territorial divide seems to have been selected based on watersheds rather than social and political demographics. The ground truth is that the folks in northwestern Montana, north Idaho, and virtually all of Oregon and Washington states east of the Cascades are conservative stalwarts. So including any part of the American Redoubt region into the Cascadia plan is laughable. I, for one, want no part in it. Even if they were …

Eastern Washington lawmakers file bill to split state JWR’s Comment: This partition is long overdue. In the long term I believe that it is almost inevitable, given the deepening socio-political divide between the two Washingtons—east and west of the Cascades. o o o Extreme Wyoming cold frosts even Moscow Ballet o o o Thousands of snow geese have died after toxic exposure in Berkel – DSV o o o Proposed amendment would risk Wyoming public lands o o o Montana avalanche buries Idaho skier, killing him

In Wyoming: Cops spread cheer with cash. (Donated funds handed out for folk doing good deeds.) o o o Idaho voter turnout in November election hit record numbers o o o Man pleads guilty in crash that killed 3 German bikers o o o Yellowstone park looks at large bison cull to trim herds

American Redoubt: Preparing for a societal storm (news television segment) One of the businesses mentioned in that news segment is Redoubt Surplus and Tactical, in Dalton Gardens, Idaho. o o o Here is another news segment, with the same theme: Preparing for the end of times in the Northwest—American Redoubt movement inspiring survivalists to buy property in remote areas. o o o And here is a follow-up interview with a back-to-the-land couple: New age homesteaders find freedom off the grid. Here is their web site: ThePreparedHomestead.org. (It includes a blog.)

Hi! Recently I bought acreage in both Colorado and Nevada. It’s empty land in a big place, and I like that. I’ve never worked with land before, having grown up and lived in cities most of my life. So I’m rather clueless about how to find good resources for next steps. A couple of next steps that I’m concerned about is knowing the exact boundaries of the parcels and bringing power to one of the parcels from a nearby power line. Have you got suggestions on how I might find a surveyor and how to talk with the electric company …

The editors/publishers of SurvivalBlog recommend an area in the western United States as the best place to find a resort for the time when the world comes to an end. They call it the American Redoubt, and it includes portions of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, which border on the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. This region has low population, low taxes, and lots of good land. It strongly tends to vote Republican. The irony, from a Canadian perspective, is that the adjacent provinces have a rather different political culture. Saskatchewan has a tradition of alternating government between the socialist …