A sign along Upper Whitefish Road announces the entrance to the Stillwater Forest Conservation Easement in the Stillwater State Forest. (Heidi Desch/Whitefish Pilot)
July 17, 2019
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July 17, 2019 2 a.m.
Conservation easement celebrated for returning 13,400 acres to Stillwater
Swaths of the state forestland west of Whitefish between 1915 and 1925 were sold, eventually coming to be owned by the Great Northern Railroad. Trees on the property were then logged to be used as railroad ties.