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<b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black;background:white">The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Debuts FIRE CALL! An Exhibit about the History of US Forest Service Back Country Communications</span></b><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="color:black"><img width="553" height="317" style="width:5.7638in;height:3.2986in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D63F25.A56AFB80"></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Along with reopening to the public, the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula brings you a fascinating exhibit, featuring the intriguing technologies the US Forest Service used over the years to communicate
to and from the nation’s vast backcountry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">Fire CALL!! has been in creation for well over a year and is a truly collaborative exhibit. In addition to the artifacts from the HMFM Collection, a good portion of the eclectic mix of objects were generously lent to HMFM by our
friends at the National Museum of Forest Service History, Museum board member Steve Bixby, the Region One Historic Preservation Team, Libby Langston, and Jack Puckett.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Just a few items you can expect to see in Fire CALL!
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Experimental modes of distant communication in the exhibit include, but aren’t limited to:
<o:p></o:p></span></li><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="circle">
<li class="Default" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">heliographs,
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="Default" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">semaphores,
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="Default" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">carrier pigeons,
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="Default" style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo3"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">even dynamite,</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">You will also learn about fire lookouts and Clyde Fickes, how to run a telephone line, the Forest Service fire ecology (including Smokey Bear), and the history of women gaining a footing in the male-dominated Forest Service.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">A common comment about the exhibit is, “Wow! What a Forest Service town Missoula has been from the get-go!” Early innovators, the School of Forestry, the Smokejumpers, Region One headquarters, etc. has helped mold Missoula into
what it is today. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt">You will also see the incredible remodeling job of our North Gallery by HMFM friend Steve Bixby, with a small ranger station assembled with wood sawed on our grounds by the Society of American Foresters steam-powered sawmill,
an implied lookout tower with a view to a smoking ridge through window-panes made to standard by the Region One Historic Preservation Team, and a telephone line strung with wire and insulators.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black;background:white">To learn more about the exhibit, Fire CALL!, contact Ted Hughes at
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:thughes@missoulacounty.us"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background:white">thughes@missoulacounty.us</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black;background:white"> or visit our website,
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://fortmissoulamuseum.org/north-gallery/"><span style="font-size:11.5pt">https://fortmissoulamuseum.org/north-gallery/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black">,
<span style="background:white">for a more history about the creation of this exhibit.
</span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom:9.6pt;mso-para-margin-bottom:.8gd;text-align:center;line-height:115%">
<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;line-height:115%">Come see our new exhibit FIRE CALL! Learn! Enjoy!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:black;background:white">On display until Spring/Summer 2021</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Jessie Rogers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Development & Communications Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:#163516"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#FFC000">"Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:#163516"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:#FFC000">–Desmond Tutu</span></i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#FFC000"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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