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Whitefish Joins Missoula in Allowing Urban Chickens


By Courtney Lowery, 12-02-08

As Myers Reece reports at the Flathead Beacon, Whitefish has joined the ranks of Montana communities allowing a little country in the city with its passage of an ordinance allowing backyard chickens.

Missoula passed a similar ordinance last December (Whitefish will allow five hens, Missoula allows six. Neither allow roosters) and the news from Whitefish gives us the perfect chance to highlight the debate that has surrounded this issue—through the eyes of photography and filmmaker Anne Medley. Here’s the video she did at NewWest.Net last year:



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