Forrest Bird News Today

Not everyone gets to say they spent the night in jail for a class field trip. Much less one that is potentially haunted. For Forrest Bird Charter School eighth-graders, the Old Montana State Prison is just one item on a packed itinerary for this summer's end-of-the-year five-night, six-full-loaded day field trip to Yellowstone and the surrounding area.

After perhaps the most intense election ever seen Forest & Bird’s annual Bird of the Year competition , we finally have our winner - and the results may or...

This update to a popular model offers faster speeds, more cabin room, and other enhancements.

A look back at longtime CBS newsman Morley Safer's career which spanned seven decades, unmatched for its impact, scope and style

The world according to Walter Palmer The educator, organizer, and alumnus discusses his six decades of activism, growing up in the Black Bottom, studying and teaching at Penn, his work at CHOP, the student strike of 1967, the Vietnam War, Frank Rizzo, Donald Trump, school choice, gun violence, the Chauvin trial, and why he thinks racism should be declared a national public health crisis. Image: Eric Sucar Two weeks before he was a...

Building Your Own Field of Dreams A runway in your backyard offers perhaps the ultimate in privacy and convenience. Here’s what you have to consider, do, and spend to make it a reality. February 2021 Arthur Jones, the founder of fitness companies Nautilus and MedX, was an animal lover who kept elephants, rhinos, and a gorilla on his estate, Jumbolair, near Ocala, Florida. An accomplished pilot, he’d fly the animals in on a Boeing 707 and later on his 747 jumbo jet because the 707 “wasn’...

Cessna Citation CJ2 with Tamarack Winglets A stock CJ2 is a solid small-cabin jet, but an aftermarket modification can make it even more capable. January 2021 Natural beauty often inspires creativity—sometimes even genius. Take northern Idaho. Its Lake Pend Oreille is a 43-mile-long, 1,159-foot-deep wonder protected by the Selkirk, Cabinet, and Bitterroot mountains and magnificently rimmed by evergreens and tamaracks. Not coincidentally, perhaps, the adjacent 46-mile corridor from Coeur d’A...

Is this something we should be proud of or embarrassed about? Idahos been the birthplace of some revolutionary inventions. Rigby native, Philo Farnsworth gifted the world with television in 1927. Union Pacific designed the very first ski lift for Sun Valley and installed it in 1936. Dr. Forrest Bird invented the worlds first modern ventilator in the 1950s. He called the Idaho home from the 1970s until he passed away at the age of 94. He founded Percussionaire in northern Idaho which continues t...