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Jeff Whitesell, chief pilot of Miss Montana, adjusts her propeller governors after a test flight on May 12, 2019. The World War II era aircraft spent months being repaired at the Museum of Mountain Flying in Missoula before making the journey to Normandy to help celebrate the 75th anniversary of D-day.

Seven-year old Maya Waller shows off her "mud fashion" gloves while helping in her family's garden plot at the Siren Road Garden on May 30, 2020. The new garden is the first of its kind on the far west side of Missoula. Maya created mud 'gloves' and 'boots' for herself using a garden spigot and a mud puddle while her mom and dad pulled weeds from their garden plot.

President Donald Trump greets the crowd at his Missoula Rally on Oct. 18, 2018 at the Minuteman Aviation Hangar. The rally was held at the hangar to facilitate simple exit and entry for the President, who didn't have to leave the tarmac.

Two veterans from the Ole Beck Veterans of Foreign War Post 209 in Missoula check out the WWII B-25 Bomber Plan, Maid in the Shade, after landing at the Museum of Mountain Flying in Missoula, Montana on Aug. 31. A crowd of veterans, museum-goers and plane enthusiasts gathered to watch the landing and explore the plane, one of only 34 of its kind still flying.

Marla Loring, center, holds an image of her niece, Ashley Loring Heavyrunner, during the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Vigil at the University of Montana on Jan. 19, 2019. Heavyrunner has been missing since June 5, 2017. The 20 -year-old college student disappeared from the Blackfeet Reservation just before she was set to move into a new apartment in Missoula.

Climate protestors stand on ice blocks, holding hands under the Higgins Avenue Bridge in downtown Missoula with nooses hanging from above around their necks in order to emphasize the urgency of the climate situation. The demonstration took place on Aug. 22, 2019 in front of a crowded downtown park to raise awareness ahead of the world-wide school strikes for climate.

Members of the Montana Democratic Party greet the crowd gathered at their socially-distant 'Drive-in Feed' at the Little Shell Cultural Center on Sept. 4, 2020. Speakers included current Montana governor and challenger for the Montana's U.S. Senate Seat, Steve Bullock, center, as well as candidate for governor, Mike Cooney (fourth from left), candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction, Melissa Romano (right) , and Montana District 24 Representative Barbara Bassette (second from right).

Three firefighters battle the Mount Sentinel above Missoula, Montana as a helicopter drops water from the Clark Fork River on the area. The blaze started near the University of Montana housing villages on Aug. 2, 2020 after two children playing with a lighter caught grass at the base of the moutain on fire.

Teddy Nichols, 7, helps load a pumpkin into a truck at the "Pumpkins for the Pov" Pumpkin Harvest on Sept. 26, 2020. The harvest, an annual event, brought about 25 volunteers together to pull nearly 2,000 pumpkins out of a field near Evans Tree Farm on Mullan Road. The pumpkins will be sold at around town to benefit the Poverello Center.

Missoula Haunted House scare-actress Max Randall, left, takes a break from makeup application while actor Bradley Lykins hurries to make changes to his makeup in the haunt's 'green room.' Lykins and his fellow haunters build Missoula's only haunted house from scratch each year, starting with an empty warehouse. A core group of about 20 designers and actors created this year's hellscape, which included a real river Styx, a functional boat, an airplane crash and chainsaws.

Micah Pengilly, an Unparralleled Movement Parkour athlete, flips atop an abandoned fire watch tower near Flathead Lake. Parkour is a fast growing sport in Western Montana, where the local scenery fits with the trend of finding interesting locations to perform movements.

A Montana Rail Link worker rides down the line of train cars filled with coal while a man holds his son in the backyard of a home adjacent to the tracks.

A worker at Anaconda Foundry Fabrication Company tranfers molten menganese into a mold during a pour on March 3, 2020. The foundry in Ananconda, Montana, has been in constant operation since the days of the "copper kings." One of many legacies of copper mining in the area, it is now an employee-owned operation and employs nearly a hundred Anacondans.

© 2020 by Sara Diggins.